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AI and the Environment
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Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths
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Why did Israel restart the war? One answer: Bezalel Smotrich.
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The Southeastern U.S. faces a future with more wildfires
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Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before
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The fallout from the Signal breach begins
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Trump targets Big Law, and Big Law appears intimidated
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How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
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On the road in Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle
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The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
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Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so
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Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power
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Measles is spreading. Are you safe?
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Is Trump defying the courts?
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Never give up - one Gaza boy's story of trying to survive in Gaza
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Trump says the economy is in 'transition.' What comes after?
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Over a dozen lawsuits to stop DOGE data access are betting on a 1974 law
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The Trump administration's attacks on oversight of executive power
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Fentanyl deaths are plunging, but it's just the first step
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Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise
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Riding 'La Bestia' with migrants in Mexico
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Marco Rubio pivots to America First diplomacy
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When it comes to the economy, it's all about uncertainty
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Can democrats find their way out of the wilderness?
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How Trump's foreign policy is reshaping the world order
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When it comes to harassment, are federal judges above the law?
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The political power of the pope
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An immigration lawyer on Trump's first month
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Former DOGE employee: work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines'
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Is there a deal to end Russia's war with Ukraine?
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The view from Greenland: 'We don't want to be Americans'
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Are Trump's military picks based on merit or loyalty?
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Trump's tariffs and rhetoric strain historic Windsor-Detroit friendship
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What happens if the Education Department is abolished?
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The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia
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Is the U.S. headed for autocracy?
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Will New York's mayor survive widening scandal?
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Why are Israel's deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?
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After weeks of chaos, the future is uncertain for thousands of federal workers
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Bonus Episode: The Aphasia Choir
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Ousted Kennedy Center president says artists must feel "welcome and safe"
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In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life
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Trump says the U.S. will 'own' Gaza — what that could mean for the Middle East
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Are we in a constitutional crisis?
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What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
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Trump 2.0 or Project 2025?
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Bonus Episode: "Margery," the medieval memoirist
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Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?
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The wider impact of DEI changes under the Trump administration
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
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