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Inflation remains elevated as Trump's tariffs take hold

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 07:46

Inflation remained elevated last month as President Trump's tariffs continued to make their way into the prices that consumers pay. The average cost of living in July was up 2.7%.

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D.C. residents express concern over crime crackdown. And, Ford invests big in EVs

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 06:32

Washington, D.C., residents express concerns over what Trump's crime crackdown could mean for them. And, Ford plans to invest billions in building a new, cheaper electric truck

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Why lung cancer is a 'hidden epidemic' in this part of the world

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 06:24

Rates of the world's deadliest cancer appear to be low in sub-Saharan Africa. But that statistic is masking the scope of the disease, doctors say.

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Trump's takeover 'out of touch' with facts on the ground, says D.C. attorney general

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 05:38

Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that govern their policing, even as President Trump vows to crack down on crime.

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Alaska was once a full-fledged Russian colony. Now it's hosting a U.S.-Russia summit

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:56

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now presidents Trump and Putin will meet Friday in Alaska to discuss another war involving Crimea.

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U.S. and China extend tariff truce deadline for another 3 months

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:47

President Trump's executive order extends a reprieve from the threat of rising tariffs between the world's two largest economies.

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A Palestinian activist was killed by the violence he sought to stop

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:04

Awdah Al Hathaleen was shot during a clash with an Israeli settler. His West Bank village hoped No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about settler violence that he worked on, might help protect them.

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Trump's Washington, D.C. takeover targets a host of groups, many of them vulnerable

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:00

Some residents are skeptical President Trump's use of tough police tactics will work to solve complex social ills.

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Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL's dial-up internet service

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:00

AOL debuted the service in 1991. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.

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In Alabama, a dredging project in Mobile Bay brings together unlikely allies

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 04:00

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.

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Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues in Gaza

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 03:35

Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist.

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What's at stake as Trump prepares to meet Putin in Alaska?

NPR News Headlines - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 03:33

Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unlikely to be included in talks he described as a "feel out meeting" to better understand Russia's demands for ending its war in Ukraine.

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