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MAGA in Europe: Make America Go Away
President Trump is escalating his pressure campaign to acquire Greenland from Denmark and threatening more tariffs against Europe. Liana Fix from the...
Minneapolis mayor calls for 'peace and order,' and ICE out of city
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey discusses ongoing unrest in Minnesota following a surge of immigration enforcement, a killing by an Immigration and Custo...
Is Plato woke? Texas professor banned from teaching ‘Symposium’
Texas A&M University adopted a rule last November banning the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” which includes Plato’s 2,400-year-old “Symposium...
Native Americans say they're being swept up by ICE
This week the Oglala Sioux Tribe said tribal members were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after raids in Minnesota. AP's Graham Lee Br...
How the DOJ is politicizing Minneapolis ICE investigation
The Justice Department pushed federal prosecutors in Minnesota to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good rather than the immigration agent who ki...
New reporting finds immigration agents are using banned chokeholds to make arrests
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, there’s widespread outrage over the use of for...
How the Federal Reserve is fighting back as Trump threatens its independence
The Trump administration is threatening criminal charges against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Powell said it’s part of a pressure campaign fro...
'KPop Demon Hunters': Inside the music behind the Netflix hit
The Golden Globes are this weekend, and the hit movie KPop Demon Hunters is up for three awards, including one for best original song. The movie has b...
Minnesota lawmakers fear 'cover-up' as FBI takes over ICE shooting investigation
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Homeland Security Secretary Kr...
After Venezuela, where will the 'Donroe Doctrine' go next?
Venezuelan investigative journalist Roberto Deniz discusses concerns that forces loyal to the new regime in Venezuela are cracking down against critic...
'He died in vain': Brother of fallen Capitol officer on rewriting of Jan. 6
Police officer Brian Sicknick died after being assaulted while defending the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. His brother, Craig Sicknick, expla...
Trump wants Venezuela’s oil. What happens next?
When President Trump spoke about Venezuela's future on Saturday, after the U.S. military action and arrest of its president, Nicolás Maduro, he said t...
Trump threatens intervention as deadly protests rock Iran
Protests in Iran have stretched on for six days, sparked by rising prices and the collapse of the country’s currency, the rial. Johns Hopkins Universi...
New year, new laws: What states are doing differently in 2026
New laws are taking effect across the country on Jan. 1. In Hawai'i, there is now a new tax on tourists that will fund efforts to fight climate change...
Federal health subsidies are expiring. Now, states are trying to fill the gap
Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire as the new year begins, and some states are trying to take action. In Georgia, Democrats are pushing f...
What hit show ‘Pluribus’ says about society and individuality
The new hit science fiction show “Pluribus” takes place in a world where a hive mind links everyone’s thoughts and actions in the name of collective g...
How the Supreme Court could redefine presidential power in 2026
Next year, the Supreme Court is expected to issue consequential rulings on President Trump's most controversial policies, including his ability to iss...
How to make the perfect cocktail
"Cocktails Illustrated" is America's Test Kitchen's inclusive guide to cocktails and mocktails. More than 400 recipes are packed into the book, which...
Fewer international students are coming to the U.S.
There has been a 19% drop in the number of international students arriving in the U.S. compared to last year, according to government data. Education...
Dick Van Dyke turns 100: Old friend Mel Brooks pays tribute
Dick Van Dyke just turned 100 years old. Fellow comedian and long-time friend Mel Brooks reflects on their relationship and what it feels like to head...
Trump policies leave historic number of legal immigrants at risk for deportation
In the past 11 months, the Trump administration has stripped more than 1.6 million people of legal status. NPR’s Ximena Bustillo shares more about the...
Redacted Epstein files reveal 'little new insight'
AP's Eric Tucker talks about what's new and what's next following the Department of Justice's partial release of documents about convicted sex offende...
Punk bands are still using their music to incite change
Baltimore-based band Pinkshift follows a long lineage of punk musicians using their music to condemn injustice and spur activism. Here & Now’s Grace G...
Trump moves to dismantle a ‘global mothership’ of climate research
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science....
Why Trump's blockade might wreck Venezuelan economy but not topple Maduro
President Trump has ordered a complete blockade on "all sanctioned oil vessels” in and out of Venezuela. Rice University professor Francisco J. Monald...
What's behind the rise of antisemitism in Australia?
Hate researcher Matteo Vergani and orthodox Rabbi Nomi Kaltmann examine the rise of antisemitism in Australia, as police continue to investigate the d...
'No Superman': Brown student recounts fleeing shooter
A gunman killed two students and injured nine others in a Brown University classroom Saturday afternoon. The suspect remains at large. Brown student R...
‘Hot rocks’ have a moment in the quest for renewable energy
With the rise of artificial intelligence, utilities are trying to satisfy an unquenchable thirst for new sources of electricity. Part of the answer ma...
AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement
The White House has promised to quadruple nuclear power by 2050. To get there, some closed nuclear plants are coming back online, including one near t...
Could a tax on billionaires solve California's inequality crisis?
Democrats are criticizing President Trump's affordability speech for not focusing that much on affordability. We learn more from The Washington Post's...
Why Trump is letting Nvidia sell powerful AI chips to China
President Trump will allow technology giant Nvidia to sell its second-best artificial intelligence chips to China. The move reverses years of policy r...
Supreme Court hears case that could give Trump more power
The Supreme Court is considering whether to allow President Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, not for c...
How ICE raids are testing police-community relationships
Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, discusses how local police departments are caught between following federal i...
Fiona Hill on what Trump’s Caribbean boat strikes signal to Russia and China
Efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine have continued this week, but Russia expert Fiona Hill said she doesn’t see any big changes on the immediate ho...
Trump's tirade against Somali immigrants
President Trump made inflammatory comments about Somali immigrants living in the U.S on Tuesday, calling them "garbage." His comments come amid report...
Why Elliott Abrams wants Trump to topple Maduro
The White House is contradicting earlier reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal order to conduct a secondary strike on an alleged d...
Trump is targeting alleged drug boats. Why is he now pardoning a drug trafficker?
President Trump wants to pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of trafficking drugs into the United States. At th...
‘The Grand Ole Opry,’ a fixture in country music, turns 100
The famous country music venue and radio show “The Grand Ole Opry” turns 100 years old today. Grand Ole Opry host Charlie Mattos and country music sta...
The story behind the WWI fighter plane that inspired Snoopy's Flying Ace
During World War I, fighter planes called Sopwith Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in WWI. For those familiar wi...
'Give him a bloody nose': Venezuelans in Florida push Trump to topple Maduro
Here & Now’s Scott Tong recently traveled to Doral, Florida, the U.S. city with the highest population of Venezuelans, to talk with people who support...