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  • What's going wrong with aid in Gaza?

    What's going wrong with aid in Gaza?
    Jun 3 2025
    Tuesday morning brought another shooting near a food distribution site in Gaza — the third in as many days.

    This time, more than two dozen people were killed as they tried to collect emergency food aid, according to Gaza health officials and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Israeli military acknowledged firing warning shots at "several suspects" moving toward their position, and fired additional shots at individual suspects who, they said, did not retreat.

    The violence may have something to do with the way Israel is now managing food distribution in Gaza. It's not how aid is typically given out in war zones.

    Avril Benoit, CEO of Doctors Without Borders within the U.S., explains what she sees is wrong with the new aid plan in Gaza.

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    9 minutos
  • What's the message behind Trump's military parade?

    What's the message behind Trump's military parade?
    Jun 2 2025
    In the past, most military parades in the U.S. were staged to signal the end of a war and welcome home of those who fought.

    The last major military parade in the nation's capitol was in 1991. It marked the end of the Gulf War.

    The capital has not seen a military parade like the one planned by President Trump for June 14th in decades - a parade estimated to cost $45 million.

    NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with historian Joshua Zeitz. He's a contributing editor for Politico Magazine and has written about where Trump's parade fits into the American tradition.

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    7 minutos
  • Three years into his war on Ukraine, what does Putin really want?

    Three years into his war on Ukraine, what does Putin really want?
    Jun 1 2025
    President Trump wants to make a deal with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Putin says Russia wants to engage in peace talks, but Putin has also been ordering the most widespread and violent aerial attacks on Ukraine in years. This has led Trump to criticize Putin more and more in public — a step that's been rare over the course of Trump's two terms in office.

    Three years into his war on Ukraine, what does Putin really want? It's a question leaders around the world are trying to figure out.

    To learn more, NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Angela Stent, Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University, Senior Fellow at the Brookings institution — a nonpartisan policy organization in Washington DC — and author of the book "Putin's World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.

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    12 minutos
  • What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters

    What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters
    May 30 2025
    The Trump administration has thrown so many curveballs at colleges and universities, it can be hard to keep track. But there's logic behind the many efforts, from cutting research grants to detaining international students involved in activism.

    NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and education correspondent Elissa Nadworny about what's at stake in the federal government's multi-pronged assault on higher education and what the administration hopes to accomplish.

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    11 minutos
  • The CDC changed its COVID vaccine guidance. What does that mean for you?

    The CDC changed its COVID vaccine guidance. What does that mean for you?
    May 29 2025
    When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new COVID recommendations this week, it raised questions among clinicians and patients:

    Will those shots still be available to people who want them — and will insurance cover it?

    NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines for healthy children and pregnant women — and whether they could make it more difficult for these patients to get shots if they want them.

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    8 minutos
  • Children of ISIS fighter find new life in Minnesota

    Children of ISIS fighter find new life in Minnesota
    May 28 2025
    When ISIS was at its height, its ranks included several hundred Americans. They were often young men radicalized online by savvy marketing that promised free housing and the chance to meet a wife.

    When the Islamic State collapsed, some of them ended up in huge detention camps in Syria, and the U.S. has been trying to bring them home.

    NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports on one American family coping with the aftermath of the child they lost, and the children they found.

    What happened to the families of the Americans who joined ISIS? Not just the families they left behind in the U.S., but the ones they formed overseas?

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    22 minutos
  • NPR takes Trump to court

    NPR takes Trump to court
    May 27 2025
    NPR and three public radio stations in Colorado sued President Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that seeks to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.

    NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik breaks down the suit, and NPR CEO Katherine Maher answers Mary Louise Kelly's answers about the lawsuit, potential fall out, and future of NPR and public media.

    And a reminder about how NPR covers news about NPR: All Things Considered host Kelly and media correspondent Folkenflik, as well as the editors and other journalists working on stories about NPR all operate without involvement from corporate officials or news executives.

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    13 minutos
  • What Trump's cuts to intelligence could mean for national security

    What Trump's cuts to intelligence could mean for national security
    May 26 2025
    It's a classic Washington power move — the late-on-Friday news dump.

    This past Friday, at 4:30pm, start of a long holiday weekend, about half the staff of the National Security Council got emails asking them to leave by 5pm. Dozens of people abruptly dismissed.

    The restructuring of the NSC as Secretary of State and National Security advisor Marco Rubio has characterized it — continues a trend in this second term for President Trump, of radical downsizing.

    The Trump administration plans to cut thousands of intelligence and national security jobs across the government.

    The US Government has long relied on scores of intelligence officials across the government to keep America safe. Trump wants many of them gone – what could that mean for security at home and abroad?

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    12 minutos