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Workers make final preparations around the Men's NCAA Final Four college basketball court at the Alamodome, Monday in San Antonio. The men tip-off on Saturday. The Women's Final Four tournament, played in Atlanta, begins on Friday.

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  • Sports

The key players to watch for in this weekend's Final Four games

Cooper Flagg and Paige Bueckers, the presumptive top picks in this year's NBA and WNBA drafts, are on deck this weekend with hopes of a national title. But the star power doesn't stop with them.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer John Bursch, representing South Carolina, speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments are delivered in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic on April 2 in Washington D.C.

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  • Law

Supreme Court hears case that could see more Planned Parenthood clinics closed

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether South Carolina can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though those funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Jimmy Stewart as Jefferson Smith in <em>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</em>, directed by Frank Capra, 1939.

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  • Movies

25 hours? Before Cory Booker, there was 'Mr. Smith'

In 1939, the character of Mr. Smith — played by Jimmy Stewart — spent 25 hours on the Senate floor railing against corruption.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres,<em> Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock</em>, 1992, acrylic on Hydrocal plaster life cast

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  • Fine Art

This art exhibition is 'divisive' or 'eye-opening' — it depends who you ask

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Booker spoke for more than 25 hours against President Trump's "unconstitutional" actions.

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  • Politics

Sen. Cory Booker on his marathon, 25-hour speech on the Senate floor

Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, told NPR's Juana Summers he stopped eating and drinking before his record-breaking speech.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Tyler Bartlam,
  • and 1 more
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., wears a cheese head hat while arriving for an America PAC town hall ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisc., on March 30.

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  • Politics

5 takeaways from Tuesday's elections, including bad news for Elon Musk

Democrats can take yesterday's elections as one of the first bits of good news they've had in months. But there are lots of issues that are still center-right, including immigration.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro

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  • Book Reviews

10 books we're looking forward to this spring

A famed graphic novelist returns! A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And more!

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on April 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. Widespread layoffs began Tuesday across the agency.

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  • Health

Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership

Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein,
  • Sydney Lupkin,
  • and 4 more
From left, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla. and Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., have been leading a push in the House to allow proxy voting for up to 12 weeks for House members who have recently given birth or whose spouse has.

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  • Politics

2 mothers bring the House to a halt over push to allow proxy voting for new parents

GOP leaders tried to block a bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting, but nine Republicans joined with Democrats to overcome it.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Barbara Sprunt
U.S. Army military vehicles, including two M88 Recovery vehicles, were part of recovery efforts for a missing U.S. Army soldier at a training range in Pabradė, Lithuania, on Tuesday.

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  • World

Body of 4th and final missing U.S. Army soldier is recovered from swamp in Lithuania

A week after going missing, the final missing soldier was found, the Army said. The soldiers were operating an armored vehicle that became submerged in a swamp during a training mission.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
The Supreme court appeared ready to allow religious charities to opt out of mandatory unemployment compensations laws.<br>

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  • Law

Supreme Court seems ready to let religious groups opt out of unemployment compensation laws

The case was brought by a chapter of Catholic Charities in Wisconsin, which says that it should be able to opt out of the mandatory state unemployment compensation system.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
A Boston Dynamics robot "dog" inspects a vehicle body as part of quality control during a media tour at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Ellabell, Ga., on March 26. During the grand opening ceremony for the plant, which actually produced its first vehicle in October, company executives and Georgia politicians did not emphasize — or even mention — that the plant produces electric vehicles.

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  • Business

Hyundai's plans for its new Georgia plant reveal an industry hedging its bets on EVs

Hyundai just opened a high-tech auto plant in Georgia. Originally meant to just build EVs, it's expanding toward plug-in hybrids — a sign of bigger shifts in the auto industry.

March 31, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Last week, President Trump signed an executive action to begin dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

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  • National

NPR speaks to a former education secretary about dismantling the department, arrests

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. about the dismantling of the education department and recent arrests of international scholars.

March 30, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Kwong,
  • Matthew Cloutier,
  • and 1 more
A view of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., at sunset in September 2013.

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  • Arts & Life

How will Trump's executive order affect the Smithsonian?

The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco and
  • Elizabeth Blair
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville to meet with friends Tuesday night when she was detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court. Khanababai called the arrest by masked agents "terrifying."<br>

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  • National

Masked officers in Tufts student arrest raise fears among immigrants and bystanders

Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?

March 28, 2025
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  • Martin Kaste
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