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The CDC team responsible for aggregating and disseminating best practices around contraception has been cut.

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  • Health

After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research

A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
People shop for food in a Brooklyn neighborhood that has a large immigrant population on October 16, 2023 in New York City.

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  • USPS

GOP's budget package proposes to cut benefits and raise fees for legal immigrants

The goal of the changes, which head to the Senate next week, is to save money and send a signal that Republicans are tough on immigration.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
President Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walk in the old district on the outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh on May 13. Trump announced several big economic agreements on his recent trip to the Middle East, but said little about the conflicts in the region.

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  • World

Trump's foreign policy: deals with allies over diplomacy with rivals

When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Sixth graders Connor Atkinson and Genevieve Plante work together to make yogurt parfaits in the after-school cooking club in their rural Maine school district.

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  • Education

After-school programs, a boon for learning, could face Trump cuts

Schools in Maine have been at the center of a political battle with the Trump administration. Now, many fear after-school programs, critical for low-income communities, could be lost.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on Monday, May 26, 2025.

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  • Space

Elon Musk's Starship rocket loses control on its 9th launch

Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Ayana Archie
The CDC is removing recommendations that children and pregnant people get the COVID vaccine.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for kids, pregnant women

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Harvard University's campus in Cambridge, Mass., pictured on Saturday, as students prepared to graduate.

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  • Education

Trump administration moves to cancel remaining federal funds to Harvard

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Stoio Kachev and Doanh Nghiem cook dinner on their electric grill. The couple says convenience is the main reason they switched from a propane grill — no need to refill tanks. Switching to electric also reduces their contribution to climate change.

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  • Climate

Electric grills are a climate-friendly option to fossil fuel grills

Grilling usually involves burning fossil fuel. But some manufacturers are offering electric grills and citing climate change and convenience as reasons to switch.

May 25, 2025
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  • Jeff Brady
Cooling towers at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Ga. President Trump signed executive orders which seek to reorganize America's nuclear regulator while giving a boost to new nuclear technologies.

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  • Technology

Trump seeks to boost nuclear industry and overhaul safety regulator

A series of executive orders aims to promote new kinds of nuclear reactors while restructuring the body in charge of nuclear safety.

May 23, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel

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  • Education

9 things to know about the big, private-school voucher plan in Republicans' tax bill

NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this first-of-its-kind national voucher plan. Here's what they said.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
The intersection where a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd has an uncertain future. The memorial site has become a meeting place for activists, but some businesses say the corner is trapped in time.

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  • National

What should happen to George Floyd Square? The community is divided

Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened is uncertain. Today, a memorial is set up in the partially blocked street. But some want to move on. How does a community reckon with its past and confront its future?

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Meg Anderson
An employee holds a full-size prototype LMR battery cell at the General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM has prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to crack the code on the chemistry.

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  • Business

The great battery race: China and the U.S. compete over the future of EVs

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske and
  • John Ruwitch
MomoCon was founded in Atlanta in 2005 by a Georgia Tech student, named after the Japanese word for 'peach' and focuses on gaming and Anime.

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  • News

MomoCon's 20th year promises economic 'splash' for Atlanta

Momocon fans are bringing more than costumes to the conference in Atlanta—they're bringing their wallets. We look at the economic impact.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
A person crosses a street as smog fills the air Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles.

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  • Business

Upending norms, the Senate votes to undo California's EV rules

The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
The Plano EPIC mosque is seen behind a row of homes in Plano. Many muslims like to live near their mosque to facilitate practicing their faith daily.

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  • National

Proposed Muslim development in Texas brings inquiries by DOJ and state officials; community members feel stereotyped

The project, known as EPIC City, has yet to break ground, but political leaders say this development could lead to religious discrimination

May 22, 2025
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  • Caroline Love
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