Consider This from NPR

Make sense of the day. Every weekday afternoon, the hosts of All Things Considered help you consider the major stories of the day in less than 15 minutes, featuring the reporting and storytelling resources of NPR. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

Can Trump get Putin to make a deal?

American Presidents have been trying to manage Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning...

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President Trump is upending global trade as we know it. What comes next?

”The global trading system as we have known it is dead.”Those are the words of former US Trade Representative...

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Trump and Putin are set to meet. Do they want the same thing?

Two minutes — That’s how long President Donald Trump says it will take him to figure out whether...

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Trump takes over DC Police. Will other cities be next?

President Trump said he’s taking over Washington and announced he’s deploying the national guard...

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Deep-sea mining is unregulated. Some want to forge ahead anyway

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to...

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Investigating the Russia investigations. What's left to learn?

The question of whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was a decisive reason Donald Trump...

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How some online networks target and radicalize kids

The FBI is investigating at least 250 people who may be tied to online networks that target children.These...

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Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans' public defender system

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system...

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How gerrymandering became a blood sport

Fights over Congressional maps never used to be this intense. On Tuesday, Texas Republicans voted to...

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What happens to the internet if no one clicks search links?

Google's AI Overviews feature can deliver an answer to your question before you click a single link....

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Is climate change a reason not to have kids?

Some young people are hesitant to start a family because they are worried about the impact it will have...

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A tricky reporting assignment: covering your own workplace

The job of a media reporter is to examine the role the press plays in our democracy, and the choices...

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Trump's tariffs are (still) coming

Thursday night, President Trump announced new tariff rates, and a new deadline. For weeks, the administration...

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A fact checker hangs up his Pinocchios

"In an era where false claims are the norm, it's much easier to ignore the fact-checkers." Those are...

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How firing hundreds of employees this year has transformed the Justice Department

This year, hundreds of employees at the Justice Department have been fired, sometimes over clashes with...

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A new executive order tackles causes of homelessness. Why are some advocates worried?

President Donald Trump is aiming to fundamentally shift how the country manages homelessness with a...

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What reporting in Gaza shows amid Trump's break from Netanyahu on starvation

New light has emerged between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump,...

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Facing persistent scrutiny over Epstein, the Trump administration rehashes 2016 probe

President Trump traveled to Scotland to talk trade with the EU and play golf. But as soon as he landed...

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Texas floods: how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives

At least 135 people died earlier this month when floods swept through the Texas Hill Country. As in...

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How have RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies impacted America's public health?

Before he entered politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a career out of stoking doubt about vaccines,...

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Six months in, how Trump has changed the Education Department.

Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes since President Trump's inauguration. For example,...

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Six months of 'shock and awe' on immigration enforcement

Since returning to office, President Trump has moved swiftly to upend decades of federal policy—from...

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A civil rights organization declares a 'state of emergency' in the U.S.

As a candidate in 2024, President Trump promised – often – to end what he and other conservatives...

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Is Emil Bove the face of a new MAGA judiciary?

President Trump helped reshape the federal courts during his first term in office. And he relied heavily...

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