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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…
8 months ago
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…
8 months ago
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 …
8 months, 1 week ago
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…
8 months, 1 week ago
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. …
8 months, 1 week ago
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…
8 months, 1 week ago
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
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
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…
8 months, 1 week ago
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