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FBI arrests suspect in investigation into pipe bombs planted near DNC, RNC before Jan. 6 attack

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 08:50

The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Trump attacks Somali immigrants. And, CDC to address vaccine schedule for kids

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 06:09

Trump is targeting Somalis with racist remarks ahead of expected immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. And, a CDC advisory panel will revisit long-standing vaccine recommendations.

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Ilhan Omar says Trump attacks on Somali immigrants 'deflect attention' from scrutiny

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 05:47

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's tirade against Somali immigrants.

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This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 05:00
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A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution.

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'New York Times' sues Pentagon over media restrictions

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:29
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The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information.

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'There's no 911 for us': inside America's elite urban search and rescue teams

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:15

America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. But their work has never been more in-demand, as weather disasters get more common.

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Announcing the NPR Student Podcast Challenge for 2026 — and a very special prize!

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:00

The annual contest for students in grades four through 12 is back for its eighth year — this time with a special prize for a podcast that marks the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:00

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.

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U.S. health care is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:00

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it.

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In an era of rising prices, computers have gotten cheaper. (And why that may end)

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 04:00

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the cost of computers. But experts say that this may be reaching a limit.

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Congo and Rwanda to sign symbolic peace deal in Washington as fighting rages

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 03:30

A long-awaited U.S.-brokered peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda will be signed in Washington on Thursday — but the reality on the ground tells a different story.

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Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 03:13

The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump, despite an ongoing fight over the institute's control.

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Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge

NPR News Headlines - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 01:11

In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

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Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 19:43

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.

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How Minnesota became a hub for Somali immigrants in the U.S.

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 17:56

Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. Here's a brief history of how they came to settle there.

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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 16:43
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Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.

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Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 15:34

At a White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars.

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CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 14:47

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

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Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. forces with use of Signal

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 14:19

A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings.

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Trump uses 'Third World' in a social media post. What's up with that term?

NPR News Headlines - Wed, 12/03/2025 - 12:52

"I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover," he wrote on Truth Social. That label raises the issue of how to classify certain nations.

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