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The Fed is likely to lower interest rates by a quarter percentage point Wednesday in an effort to cushion the sagging job market. The move comes as policymakers face growing pressure from Trump.

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President Trump wants to be able to fire far more executive branch employees at will — upending checks on presidential power that have existed for more than a century.

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President Trump is in the United Kingdom for a rare second state visit that includes pageantry, policy and protests.

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NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

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While legally questionable, the extension comes just as it appears China and the U.S. may finally have a deal on TikTok's fate.

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House Republicans put forth a proposal to fund the government that includes $30 million for lawmaker security, as Congress grapples with increasing political violence.

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Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are against schools giving kids standardized questionnaires about their mental well-being. But experts say they are wrong.

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Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She also answers the question: Is it kosher to receive an organ donation from a pig?

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Utah prosecutors charged Tyler Robinson, 22, with the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Officials say they are seeking the death penalty.

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House Republicans released a short-term spending bill to fund the government until late November but Democrats are calling for further changes.

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NPR wants to hear from listeners whose lives have changed due to an increase in ICE operations, throughout the country.

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The report issued Tuesday by experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible.

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A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

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For the first time in decades, the U.S. has decertified Colombia as a drug control partner — a symbolic blow to one of Washington's closest allies in Latin America.

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Vice President Vance hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast yesterday and vowed to carry on his friend's political legacy. And, the Federal Reserve meets to decide interest rates.

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President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents.

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Social media is full of their colorful ads, but are online doctors legit? Here's the lowdown on the pros and cons of online medicine.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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In South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, many people go without health insurance, and the health system struggles as a result. Similar communities dot the nation.

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