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National One U.S. diplomat describes being laid off amid sweeping cuts After 14 years as a U.S. diplomat, one officer talks about being laid off in the State Department's sweeping cuts, losing both career and professional identity. Michele Kelemen
World The latest in Ukraine peace talks and war-time elections As Europe and Ukraine offer counterproposals to the White House's Kremlin-friendly plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine, Ukraine's president explores holding wartime elections on ceding territory. Joanna Kakissis
National 19 photos were released from the Epstein files. We unpack their significance Nineteen of 95,000 photos for the Jeffrey Epstein files were released by a House committee Friday. What do they tell us and when will more information be available? Justine Kenin
About 100,000 remain under evacuation notice as rivers swell in western Washington Tens of thousands of Washingtonians remain under evacuation advisories after successive storms swelled rivers in the Western part of the state. It's not clear yet what damage the region sustained. Casey Martin
Music The best albums of 2025 Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on. Vincent Acovino
Honey flavor reaches new depths with... spotted lanternfly droppings Savory, sour and earthy tasting honey could be the new normal thanks to a new ingredient. Spotted lanternfly poop. The insects spread along the east coast across could usher in new ways to use honey. Jason Fuller
Latin America How Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado escaped Venezuela Stranded in the Caribbean with no way to call for help: How Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado survived the deadliest stretch of her flight from Venezuela before an extraction team reached her. Carrie Kahn
Old divides in a new Syria One year after the ousting of the Assad regime, some of the first Syrian revolutionaries return to their homes and try to start their lives again. But new divisions and old animosities still fester. Emily Feng
Health Why one trauma doctor sees self-driving cars as a 'public health breakthrough' NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Dr. Jonathan Slotkin about the new data released by Waymo about accidents and their self-driving cars. Christopher Intagliata
Israeli troops are killing unarmed Palestinians in West Bank operations A wife in the West Bank city of Nablus grieves her husband who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after he appeared to surrender. An Israeli human rights group weighs in. Hadeel Al-Shalchi