Stephen Fowler
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NPR News: 04-09-2025 9AM EDT
For the last two weeks, Playboy Cardi has topped the Billboard albums chart with a brand new record called Music. But this week, it's been replaced by an album that topped the chart more than a year ago. Ariana Grande recently reissued her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine with five new songs and an extended version of another.
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NPR News: 04-09-2025 9AM EDT
With six fresh tracks and fresh vinyl and CD editions for sale, the album leapt from number 87 all the way back to number one. The Wicked Star also landed all six of those new tracks in the Billboard Hot 100, with Twilight Zone hitting the top 20.
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NPR News: 03-13-2025 6AM EDT
Phase one of the agency RIF and reorganization plan asks agencies to list jobs and obligations that are essential and encourages them to cut just about everything else. Some, like the Department of Education, have already announced their intention to fire large numbers of employees. through reductions in force that will take effect in a few months.
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NPR News: 03-13-2025 6AM EDT
Phase 2 plans due mid-April asks agencies to ID more ways to cut costs, like moving offices out of Washington, D.C., and axing regulations. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
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NPR News: 02-21-2025 7PM EST
Trump asked the Supreme Court to block a court order issued February 12th that reinstated the head of the Office of Special Counsel for two weeks while the judge considered the larger case. The short shelf life of that ruling means it usually can't be appealed, but Trump's lawyers tried anyways. After the D.C.
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NPR News: 02-21-2025 7PM EST
Court of Appeals declined to make an exception, Trump went to the Supreme Court, who also did not step in. This was a procedural question that does not address the administration's larger legal argument that the president has complete power to determine who runs executive agencies, even independent ones. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-20-2024 7PM EST
The social media frenzy caused by the world's richest man has added more conflict to an already narrow Republican House majority that has had issues governing. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-20-2024 7PM EST
NPR's Stephen Fowler has more. Musk is not an elected official, but his proximity to President-elect Trump and high profile posting helped sink a bipartisan funding bill announced earlier this week. He called it, quote, criminal and attacked language that went beyond spending to keep the government open. Musk also threatened to support primary challengers to anyone that voted against his wishes.
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NPR News: 04-05-2025 7PM EDT
We're trying to protect everybody's children, everybody's family, everybody's drinking water. You know, it's not a partisan thing.
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NPR News: 03-21-2025 3PM EDT
But the pair also joined the growing chorus of voters who say the Democratic Party needs to do more to defend those institutions and have stronger plans to counter Trump's agenda. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Tempe, Arizona.
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NPR News: 03-21-2025 3PM EDT
At a packed hockey arena on Arizona State University's campus, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders denounced Trump. Sanders painted Trump's Department of Government Efficiency effort to fire federal workers and slash government agencies as morally wrong and illegal. single day, Trump and his friends are ignoring the Constitution of the United States of America.
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NPR News: 03-14-2025 1PM EDT
Thank you. And a Maryland district judge gave a similar directive to more than a dozen departments and offices. The next phase of restructuring asks agencies to conduct large-scale reductions in force in the coming months. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 7PM EDT
A Mercedes spokesperson confirmed a flyer posted in the plant that announced a ramp-up in production. The German automaker did not say how many new workers will be hired. Some of its current employees will work more shifts starting in July. Mercedes also said it's too soon to know the tariff's full effect.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 7PM EDT
The decision to increase production was made before Tuesday's tariff announcements, though Trump promised tariffs on carmakers since the 2024 presidential election. Meanwhile, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Chrysler, announced it's laying off 900 U.S. workers because of the tariffs. For NPR News, I'm Stephen Passaha in Birmingham, Alabama.