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Our long national nightmare is over. Beyonce has finally won the Grammy for Album of the Year. How and why did it take so long for Beyonce to win the top prize at Music's Biggest Night? We're talking about her big wins and breaking down the Grammys for Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Rhone, and Sabrina Carpenter. Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. President Trump has signed another executive order aimed at revoking funding to education institutions that allow transgender women to compete in female sports programs. As NPR's Ayanna Archie reports, the issue was a major talking point during Trump's campaign.

The president said he would quote, rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities. He also said he would take actions against those schools to enforce Title IX, which bars sex-based discrimination in programs that get money from the federal government. He has argued that transgender women athletes have unfair advantages over cisgender women athletes. Opponents of the ban say there aren't many trans athletes to begin with. In recent days, Trump also signed orders seeking to ban transgender people from the military and cut federal funds for K-12 schools promoting gender ideology. Ayanna Archie, NPR News.

The White House is walking back President Trump's suggestion that the U.S. takeover, clean up and rebuild war-torn Gaza. Here's press secretary Caroline Levitt. The president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza. He has also said that the United States is not going to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. His administration is going to work with our partners in the region to reconstruct this region. Trump prompted outrage in the Arab and Muslim world Tuesday by suggesting that displaced

Palestinians be relocated to Jordan, Egypt or elsewhere. He called Gaza a pile of rubble that could become the Riviera of the Middle East. A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The preliminary injunction expands a temporary ruling issued two weeks ago. The White House is expected to appeal. Under the 14th Amendment, anyone born on U.S. soil is, by birthright, an American citizen. Thousands of protesters took to streets and cities across the nation Wednesday to protest

the Trump administration's policies. About 400 people gathered around the Indiana State House, as Ethan Sandweiss reports from member station WFIU in Indianapolis. Ethan Sandweiss, WFIU-Indianapolis, Indiana Despite steady rain and temperatures in the low 30s, the demonstrators marched, voicing their opposition to many of Trump's executive actions and policies. The protest organized on social media calls itself 50-51, which stands for 50 states and 50 protests on one day.

Jackson Franklin is a combat medic and Democratic congressional hopeful. He came to the state house with one of his triplets. They do not have a mandate to impose whatever they want upon us. Trump won with like 1.4 percent of the vote. He barely won is our point, and he still has to be beholden to the electorate. Some protesters curried signs against Indiana Governor Mike Braun, who won the state Republican primary after receiving Trump's endorsement. For NPR News, I'm Ethan Sandweiss in Indianapolis. U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR.

The U.S. Agency for International Development's website has been changed. All that's left there is a statement on the suspension of USAID staff. The statement also says the agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and promises further guidance later on. The Trump administration aims to end USAID, which has provided humanitarian and development aid for foreign countries since the 1960s. A UCLA report finds the Los Angeles area wildfires have caused between $95 and $164 billion in total property and capital losses. CAP radio's Manola Sikaida

has more. So far, the Eaton and Palisades fires have resulted in the loss of over 16,000 homes and other structures. Juyan Li is an economist with UCLA's Anderson School of Management and a co-author of the report. She says this could be California's most expensive series of wildfires to date, in large part because of where they happened.

We see that the median home price in these two recent fires is much higher than previous ones. Damage cost more loss. She says the damage could also cause a loss of $4.6 billion for Los Angeles County's GDP for 2025. For NPR News, I'm Manola Sikaida in Sacramento. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish earthquake survivors are still living in shipping containers used for temporary shelters since February 2023.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 53,000 people in southern and southeastern Turkey, while another 6,000 people were killed in neighboring northern Syria. This is NPR News. Are you the greatest musician the world has never heard? This is NPR News.