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What's really happening in Minnesota?
So much has happened since ICE ramped up efforts in Minneapolis. It can be hard to get a sense of the big picture. Two NPR reporters on the ground do…
1 month ago
How HIV researchers overcame setbacks and kept a vaccine trial going
Scientists say research into a vaccine for HIV is further along than it’s ever been.
But Trump administration cuts to scientific research have set tha…
1 month ago
How Trump moves political norms – both slowly and suddenly
In the first year of his second term, President Trump has repeatedly said and done things that were previously assumed to be unacceptable to voters.
W…
1 month ago
Trump is escalating European tensions. What are the consequences?
President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. acquire Greenland could become a major international crisis.
He's now threatened tariffs on eight NATO alli…
1 month ago
Trump is rewriting the rules of the economy…is it ‘crony capitalism’?
President Trump has spent his first year back in office blurring the lines between business and government.
The administration has bought shares in p…
1 month ago
Beth Israel Congregation rebuilds after arson, saying "there's healing that comes"
A week after an arson fire at Mississippi's oldest synagogue, Rachel Myers, a leader of the congregation's religious school, talks about how the cong…
1 month ago
How the Trump Justice Department is targeting his perceived opponents
Under the Trump administration, federal prosecutors have been sent to investigate federal lawmakers, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the wido…
1 month, 1 week ago
Do federal agents have 'absolute immunity?'
Vice President J.D. Vance says the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Macklin Good last week has "absolute immunity." Some legal experts have push…
1 month, 1 week ago
Reflections on an 'electrifying' round of protest in Iran
What began two weeks ago as a demonstration against an economic crisis has become a broader antigovernment movement, in cities and towns across Iran.…
1 month, 1 week ago
What happens if the Fed loses its independence?
The Trump Justice Department has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve for information related to its multibillion-dollar renovation of the Fed's headquarte…
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