Kimmel cancellation renews questions about free speech
18 Sep 2025
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President Trump has said for years that he wants Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Now, ABC and its parent ...
The U.K.'s response to Trump, like America's, is divided.
17 Sep 2025
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The first day of President Trump’s historic trip to the UK was dominated by ceremony.A carriage pr...
Robert Redford was his own kind of Hollywood icon
16 Sep 2025
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Robert Redford died early Tuesday morning, according to his publicist. He was 89 years old.Redford w...
Charlie Kirk's chair is empty. Can MAGA harness his movement?
15 Sep 2025
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With the assasination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, there’s a great deal of speculati...
The immigration crackdown is changing how people interact with law enforcement
14 Sep 2025
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The Supreme Court has cleared the way for federal immigration enforcement agents in Los Angeles to ...
Understanding the war in Gaza through the words of a child
13 Sep 2025
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Sometimes the stories that help us understand the full impact of war are told through a child’s vo...
Can the global HIV/AIDS fight recover from Trump's cuts?
12 Sep 2025
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HIV has been in retreat around the world. Fewer people are dying of the disease.New infections are ...
Young Conservatives Are Asking What's Next For the Movement Charlie Kirk Started
11 Sep 2025
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For many young conservatives, Charlie Kirk was more than just another political activist or online p...
The 9/11 terrorism case is in limbo. So are the victim families.
10 Sep 2025
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The 9/11 terrorism case has been in legal limbo for more than a decade and many doubt the case will ...
What Jeffrey Epstein's bank knew
09 Sep 2025
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Six years after his death in prison, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continues to dominate the news.A H...
Hackers are after your water. How this town defends against them.
08 Sep 2025
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Chris Hugues has what he calls an interesting job.He’s an assistant operator at a wastewater treat...
What happens when democracies use military force to occupy their own territory?
07 Sep 2025
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Over the weekend, President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a character from the w...
Trump wants to change education. What's that mean for kids?
05 Sep 2025
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President Trump has vowed to abolish the Department of Education. He’s pressured schools to end DE...
A vaccine skeptic is leading public health in the US. Today, RFK Jr. faced questions
04 Sep 2025
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a scathing line of questioning from both Republican and Democratic lawma...
Your covid vaccine questions answered
03 Sep 2025
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The one thing certain about the COVID vaccine right now is that everything about it is changing.The ...
Corporate America ditched DEI. What happened to the employees?
02 Sep 2025
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“Chief diversity officer” was once Corporate America’s hottest job. Now corporate America ha...
Cumberbatch and Colman team up to play a couple at war
01 Sep 2025
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So many movies are made about the beginning of a relationship. That first spark of attraction. That ...
The lasting impact of the administration’s changes to health science
31 Aug 2025
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The Trump Administration has made significant changes to the departments in charge of public health....
Covering Katrina: navigating New Orleans in the days after the storm
30 Aug 2025
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans twenty years ago this week, leaving a trail of destruction across ...
President Trump, entertainer-in-chief
29 Aug 2025
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Before he entered politics, most Americans knew Donald Trump as an entertainer. As the host of the h...
Gazans are starving. How did it get this bad?
28 Aug 2025
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The war in Gaza is approaching the 2 year mark. As it does, Israel continues to launch new attacks o...
Should the government be in the business of business?
27 Aug 2025
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What happens when the federal government owns part of a company? That’s one of MANY questions abou...
Can Trump call the National Guard into Chicago too?
26 Aug 2025
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For over two weeks, members of the National Guard have been walking the streets of Washington, D.C. ...
What a day in immigration court is like now
25 Aug 2025
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The Trump administration is deploying a new strategy to speed up deportations. Government lawyers ar...
Bubbling questions about the limits of the AI revolution
24 Aug 2025
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OpenAI founder Sam Altman floated the idea of an AI bubble, an MIT report found that 95% of generati...
High stakes diplomacy and canceled Halibut Olympia, insights from the Alaska Summit
23 Aug 2025
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Normally, foreign policy summits between world leaders involve painstaking planning and organization...
Famine is declared in Gaza. Will anything change?
22 Aug 2025
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The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United ...
It's not your imagination. Hurricanes are getting more severe.
21 Aug 2025
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In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1300 people dead a...
What's Trump doing in DC?
20 Aug 2025
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President Trump says the administration’s takeover of DC is making life safer. But many of the cit...
How hundreds of babies and children ended up in a mass grave in Ireland
19 Aug 2025
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Anna Corrigan grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She thought she was an only child, until she was in her 50...
Trump and Zelenskyy meet again
18 Aug 2025
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In the last few days, President Trump has met separately with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, ...
What we know about President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics
17 Aug 2025
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President Trump turned to the Heritage Foundation help pick his appointee to lead a traditionally no...
Covering climate change in the city of love
16 Aug 2025
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Paris has increasingly found itself on the frontline of the climate crisis and covering the city and...
What Bad Bunny means to Puerto Ricans
15 Aug 2025
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This summer, the island of Puerto Rico has been under the thrall of Bad Bunny.His 30-concert residen...
Can Trump get Putin to make a deal?
14 Aug 2025
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American Presidents have been trying to manage Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning ...
President Trump is upending global trade as we know it. What comes next?
13 Aug 2025
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”The global trading system as we have known it is dead.”Those are the words of former US Trade R...
Trump and Putin are set to meet. Do they want the same thing?
12 Aug 2025
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Two minutes — that’s how long President Trump says it will take him to figure out whether Russia...
Trump takes over D.C. police. Will other cities be next?
11 Aug 2025
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President Trump said he’s taking over Washington and announced he’s deploying the National Guard...
Deep-sea mining is unregulated. Some want to forge ahead anyway
10 Aug 2025
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The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to...
Investigating the Russia investigations. What's left to learn?
08 Aug 2025
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The question of whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was a decisive reason Donald Trump...
How some online networks target and radicalize kids
07 Aug 2025
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The FBI is investigating at least 250 people who may be tied to online networks that target children...
Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans' public defender system
06 Aug 2025
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In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system...
How gerrymandering became a blood sport
05 Aug 2025
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Fights over Congressional maps never used to be this intense. On Tuesday, Texas Republicans voted to...
What happens to the internet if no one clicks search links?
04 Aug 2025
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Google's AI Overviews feature can deliver an answer to your question before you click a single link....
Is climate change a reason not to have kids?
03 Aug 2025
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Some young people are hesitant to start a family because they are worried about the impact it will h...
A tricky reporting assignment: covering your own workplace
03 Aug 2025
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The job of a media reporter is to examine the role the press plays in our democracy, and the choices...
Trump's tariffs are (still) coming
01 Aug 2025
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Thursday night, President Trump announced new tariff rates, and a new deadline. For weeks, the admin...
A fact checker hangs up his Pinocchios
31 Jul 2025
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"In an era where false claims are the norm, it's much easier to ignore the fact-checkers." Those are...
How firing hundreds of employees this year has transformed the Justice Department
30 Jul 2025
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This year, hundreds of employees at the Justice Department have been fired, sometimes over clashes w...
A new executive order tackles causes of homelessness. Why are some advocates worried?
29 Jul 2025
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President Donald Trump is aiming to fundamentally shift how the country manages homelessness with a ...
What reporting in Gaza shows amid Trump's break from Netanyahu on starvation
28 Jul 2025
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New light has emerged between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, ...
Facing persistent scrutiny over Epstein, the Trump administration rehashes 2016 probe
27 Jul 2025
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President Trump traveled to Scotland to talk trade with the EU and play golf. But as soon as he land...
Texas floods: how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives
26 Jul 2025
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At least 135 people died earlier this month when floods swept through the Texas Hill Country. As in ...
How have RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies impacted America's public health?
25 Jul 2025
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Before he entered politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a career out of stoking doubt about vaccines,...
Six months in, how Trump has changed the Education Department.
24 Jul 2025
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Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes since President Trump's inauguration. For example...
Six months of 'shock and awe' on immigration enforcement
23 Jul 2025
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Since returning to office, President Trump has moved swiftly to upend decades of federal policy—fr...
A civil rights organization declares a 'state of emergency' in the U.S.
22 Jul 2025
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As a candidate in 2024, President Trump promised – often – to end what he and other conservative...
Is Emil Bove the face of a new MAGA judiciary?
21 Jul 2025
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President Trump helped reshape the federal courts during his first term in office. And he relied hea...
With plea deals canceled, what happens next with the Guantanamo 9/11 trials?
20 Jul 2025
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Plea deals with the 9/11 defendants, including for the alleged ringleader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, h...
Florida: The front line of Trump's immigration crackdown
19 Jul 2025
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NPR correspondent Jasmine Garsd has taken several reporting trips to Florida recently, a state seein...
Trump says no one cares about Epstein. Why won't his base let it go?
18 Jul 2025
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One of the narratives at the heart of President Trump's political movement is this: American society...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
18 Jul 2025
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Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this esse...
Will air traffic control's $12.5 billion update fix employee morale?
17 Jul 2025
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Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testified on Capitol Hill, where he thanked C...
Tariffs are a tax. Are you already paying it?
16 Jul 2025
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It's been over three months since President Trump announced very big across-the-board tariffs on imp...
Climate change is fueling brutal rainstorms. Here's how to stay safe
15 Jul 2025
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It's not just Texas. In the past couple of weeks, communities all around the country have been hit w...
Trump threatens Russia over Ukraine. Will it make a difference?
14 Jul 2025
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President Trump has made some big shifts in U.S. policy on Russia's war with Ukraine lately. In the ...
What do we know about what's driving political violence?
13 Jul 2025
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It's been a year since the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and the ...
Inside the Diddy trial: why it felt like a watch party at the courthouse
12 Jul 2025
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On July 2nd, Sean Combs was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced: racketeering and sex tra...
When old oil wells become 'orphans,' that's a problem
11 Jul 2025
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All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't ...
A harrowing journey to find food in Gaza
10 Jul 2025
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Israel bans international journalists from independent access to Gaza. But NPR's Anas Baba is from G...
After devastating floods a Central Texas community comes together
10 Jul 2025
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It's been nearly a week since devastating flooding tore through Kerr County, Texas killing more than...
The U.S. birth rate is falling fast. Why? It's complicated
08 Jul 2025
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The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on ave...
Flooding is common in Texas Hill Country. This was different
07 Jul 2025
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Imagine standing in water shallow enough to just barely hit the soles of your feet. And then it rise...
When it comes to vaccines, how are pediatricians restoring trust?
06 Jul 2025
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If you're a parent, decisions about vaccines have gotten a lot more confusing recently. Robert F. Ke...
The songs that define America
04 Jul 2025
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Independence Day means different things to each of us. On this 249th birthday for America, we spend ...
The Trump domestic policy megabill is set to become law
03 Jul 2025
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President Trump put essentially his entire domestic agenda in one bill.It would significantly cut cl...
Saving history one story at a time
02 Jul 2025
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This summer marks 80 years since the end of World War II when Allied forces liberated Nazi-occupied ...
House Speaker may have to make a lot of promises to get bill to Trump's desk
01 Jul 2025
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The massive tax and spending bill central to President Trump's agenda is one step closer to reality....
Why a GOP senator says the budget bill breaks Trump's promise
30 Jun 2025
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The massive budget bill that Senate Republicans are debating pays for some of its tax cuts by slashi...
What this term says about where the Supreme Court is headed
29 Jun 2025
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A number of Supreme Court decisions handed down this term have expanded the power of the president w...
Iran's nuclear sites got bombed. North Korea? It's another story
28 Jun 2025
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Although President Trump launched air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, the administration ...
The Supreme Court just lifted a key check on presidential power
27 Jun 2025
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Three different federal judges have issued nationwide blocks to President Trump's executive order to...
Autism rates have exploded. Could the definition be partly to blame?
26 Jun 2025
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about ...
We're not built for this heat
25 Jun 2025
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Tens of millions of people across the US are currently under a heat advisory. And the extreme heat i...
Medical views on self-managed abortion shifting since overturn of Roe
24 Jun 2025
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion in the United State...
Iran launches missiles at U.S. base in Qatar
23 Jun 2025
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On Monday, Iran struck back against the United States, firing missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar. The ...
What are the wider repercussions of the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear sites?
22 Jun 2025
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The U.S. joined Israel's war on Iran and over the weekend bombed three of the country's nuclear site...
Covering the military parade and a No Kings rally on the same day
21 Jun 2025
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Frank Langfitt has covered the world. Now he reports for NPR as a roving correspondent, focusing on ...
How Gabby Giffords is grappling with the rise in political violence
20 Jun 2025
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Last weekend, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband, Mark, were shot and...
Afghans in the US have lost protected status. What happens now?
19 Jun 2025
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Many Afghans who helped the US military or who were persecuted by the Taliban for other reasons foun...
Lessons from Iraq, as Trump teases attacks on Iran
18 Jun 2025
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In 2003, the U.S. launched a war in Iraq based on what turned out to be bad intelligence about weapo...
What's at stake in the conflict between Israel and Iran?
17 Jun 2025
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The United States has worked for decades to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Now Israel ...
The big SCOTUS decisions looming
16 Jun 2025
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Around this time every year, the U.S. Supreme Court ends its term with a bang. The Justices typicall...
Is this the end of the rule of law in America?
15 Jun 2025
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Since the start of his second term, President Trump has been at odds with the federal courts.The pro...
The spending cuts one state could face if Trump's massive bill becomes law
14 Jun 2025
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Kentucky is one of the poorest states and is likely to see billions of dollars cut from Medicaid and...
Israel struck Iran. What's next?
13 Jun 2025
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Early Friday local time, Israel finally did what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been threaten...
What's next in the case that symbolizes Trump's immigration crackdown?
12 Jun 2025
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia: a name that's become near-synonymous with the Trump Administration's immigrati...
Is Trump's immigration bet working?
11 Jun 2025
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The White House's message on what's happening in Los Angeles is simple: this is what President Trump...
Fentanyl deaths among the young are dropping. Can the trend continue?
10 Jun 2025
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Fentanyl and other street drugs killed more than 230,000 people under the age of 35 in the U.S. over...
The Insurrection Act is back on the table
09 Jun 2025
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The last time a President deployed the National Guard over a governor's objections was more than 50 ...