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Covering the military parade and a No Kings rally on the same day
Covering the military parade and a No Kings rally on the same day

Frank Langfitt has covered the world. Now he reports for NPR as a roving correspondent, focusing on stories that help us understand a changing Americ…

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How Gabby Giffords is grappling with the rise in political violence
How Gabby Giffords is grappling with the rise in political violence

Last weekend, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed at their home by a man impersonating a po…

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Afghans in the US have lost protected status. What happens now?
Afghans in the US have lost protected status. What happens now?

Many Afghans who helped the US military or who were persecuted by the Taliban for other reasons found refuge in the United States. They were granted …

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Lessons from Iraq, as Trump teases attacks on Iran
Lessons from Iraq, as Trump teases attacks on Iran

In 2003, the U.S. launched a war in Iraq based on what turned out to be bad intelligence about weapons programs, then spent years mired in a conflict…

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What's at stake in the conflict between Israel and Iran?
What's at stake in the conflict between Israel and Iran?

The United States has worked for decades to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Now Israel says it is attacking Iran to remove that threat. …

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The big SCOTUS decisions looming
The big SCOTUS decisions looming

Around this time every year, the U.S. Supreme Court ends its term with a bang. The Justices typically save their biggest rulings for June.

Outstanding…

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Is this the end of the rule of law in America?
Is this the end of the rule of law in America?

Since the start of his second term, President Trump has been at odds with the federal courts.

The protests in Los Angeles are just the latest series o…

8 months, 1 week ago

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The spending cuts one state could face if Trump's massive bill becomes law
The spending cuts one state could face if Trump's massive bill becomes law

Kentucky is one of the poorest states and is likely to see billions of dollars cut from Medicaid and other government benefits if Trump's spending bi…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Israel struck Iran. What's next?
Israel struck Iran. What's next?

Early Friday local time, Israel finally did what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been threatening to do for years: It launched a massive attack…

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What's next in the case that symbolizes Trump's immigration crackdown?
What's next in the case that symbolizes Trump's immigration crackdown?

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: a name that's become near-synonymous with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown.

Abrego Garcia was arrested by ICE ag…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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