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1649 episodes transcribedFederal regulators are now limiting the number of flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. This comes after a harrowing month for t...
The U.S. economy is in flux. And for millions of Americans, a new line item in their budget includes repaying federal student loans.Making ends meet i...
Joe Biden has stage four metastatic prostate cancer.The former president made that announcement Sunday afternoon. It came just days before the publica...
On the first major foreign trip of his second term, President Trump met with leaders in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. His arrival was greeted with...
Earlier this week, the White House announced that the U.S. and China had agreed to lower the reciprocal tariffs they had put in place in April – but o...
It's been six months since President Trump first announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative, which has dramatically...
President Trump's order that would end automatic citizenship for the children of many categories of immigrants has been blocked from going into effect...
Nearly half a million people in Gaza now face starvation, according to a new report from the IPC, the international panel of famine experts who advise...
As a neighbor of Ukraine's and host to more than 2 million of its war refugees, Poland has seen, heard and felt what Russia is capable of, and it's no...
Last week, the Gates Foundation announced it would spend more than $200 billion over the next 20 years — including nearly all the personal wealth of c...
The election of the first American pope is a remarkable moment in the two thousand year history of the Catholic Church. But in choosing his name, it's...
When NPR listeners think of reports from Italy or the Vatican, usually one name comes to mind: Sylvia Poggioli. She covered much more, of course, ove...
It's been more than two years since civil war exploded in Sudan. By some estimates the conflict has killed as many as 150-thousand people, and displac...
The cardinals have elected a new pope: Robert Prevost, a cardinal born in Chicago. He has taken the name Leo XIV. He is the first American pope in the...
Newark Liberty International Airport has been a mess the past week, with hundreds of flights cancelled and hundreds more delayed. It was triggered in...
On 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...
