All Things Considered
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In Puerto Rico, immigration arrests raise concerns about racial profiling
Recent ICE raids in Puerto Rico have mostly rounded up Dominican immigrants. The island is now reckoning with the role that longstanding anti-Dominican racism and racial profiling may be playing.
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How Trump's sweeping new travel ban may affect the many nations it targets
President Trump announces a sweeping travel ban on citizens from 12 countries, with restrictions on seven others -- evoking the "Muslim ban" Trump introduced during his first term.
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Volunteers are helping save climate data — which teachers rely on — before it's lost
As the Trump administration removes climate-related data and tools from agency websites, teachers are left scrambling to fix lesson plans. But, a volunteer effort is archiving much of the lost data.
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Here to Help: A man's decades-long history with Habitat for Humanity
Gerard Van de Werken is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Austin, a non-profit housing organization. For our series, Here to Help, he discusses his decades-long history with the organization.
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Fans drive massive Nintendo Switch 2 launch; other consumers play the waiting game
Criticized for its high cost but still selling out nearly everywhere, Nintendo's sequel to their popular Switch console releases as a trade war squeezes the video game industry. https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/joost-vandreunen https://superjoost.substack.com/p/gamings-counter-cycle
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Trump's tariffs could cut deficit by $2.8 trillion over next decade — with caveats
Forecasters at the Congressional Budget Office say President Trump's tariffs could shave $2.8 trillion off the federal debt if they remain in place for a decade. That's a big if.
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New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is closing in on a .400 batting average
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has had a great season and is closing in on one of baseball's rarest batting milestones: breaking .400. The last player to do it was Ted Williams in 1941.
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Air traffic overhaul obstacles
The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.
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'She Who Dared,' an opera about women in the civil rights movement, opens in Chicago
A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.
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A single mother of eight in Gaza is running out of ways to cope
A single mother in Gaza describes what hunger looks like for her and her eight children under Israeli restrictions on aid.
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Hungry hungry elephant raids grocery store and hardly hurts a fly
When a massive elephant entered a small grocery shore in Thailand in search of snacks, chaos did not ensue.
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The effect of budget cuts on vulnerable seniors
Proposed federal budget cuts to health and social programs would affect about 8 million seniors living in poverty. Many rely on state and federal support that the Trump Administration wants to cut.