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1594 episodes transcribedOn the eve of the conclave to elect a new pope, some of the biggest questions hanging in the air have to do with LGBTQ Catholics. Will the church cont...
President Trump's rapid-fire spending cuts have affected communities all over the country–including strongholds of his supporters. One of them is Risi...
Days before the beginning of the conclave to select the next pope, NPR's Scott Detrow is in Rome. He speaks with Sylvia Poggioli about the rituals and...
Over the past few months, world leaders and diplomats have talked about grand plans for ending the war in Ukraine. But what about daily life there ri...
The U.S. has sent people it has detained — people it calls terrorists — to a prison overseas — indefinitely.This is true in 2025, after the Trump admi...
Americans are rushing to car dealerships as they worry about what President Trump's tariffs will do to car prices in the coming months. New vehicle sa...
President Trump is pushing the boundaries of executive power in nearly every area of policy. From his trade war, to immigration, to education, to the...
An NPR investigation has been following President Trump's efforts to retaliate against his perceived enemies since he returned to the Oval Office in J...
About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.When Health and Huma...
U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st state have become some of the biggest issues facing Canadians as they head...
Long before he was elected to run the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis was essentially exiled from his Argentinian Jesuit order. Francis often refe...
Whether a "chainsaw," per Elon Musk, or "scalpel," as President Trump has said — the Trump administration is making deep cuts to the federal governmen...
When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the March on Washington in 1...
On March 23, the death toll in Gaza surpassed 50,000 people killed by Israeli fire in the war with Hamas.This is the story of 15 people who were kille...
What does it take to keep the economy stable? That is a question that Jerome Powell considers every day in his role as Chair of the Federal Reserve. I...
On Monday morning in Rome Cardinal Kevin Farrell Camerlengo or Cardinal Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church announced the death of Pope Francis I.Tha...
Viktor Orban is in his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of Hungary. In that time, he has dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken con...
This week, two federal judges handling separate immigration cases escalated their attempts to get the Trump administration to comply with court orders...
When it comes to the cost of raising a child from infancy to the age of 17 in the United States – it's hard to settle on a precise figure.There's one...
The Trump administration's move to send immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is the subject of multiple on-going fights in court. Bu...
