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Palestinians line up for water next to a distribution truck at a displacement camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan condemned Israel's decision to cut electricity supply to the war-battered Gaza Strip, calling in separate statements for the international community to take action.

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  • Middle East

Moving Palestinians out of Gaza? Trump's idea takes on a life of its own in Israel

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it happen, and polls suggest most Israelis are open to the idea.

March 11, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
Before there were masks, there were elbow bumps. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and Dr. Anthony Fauci greet each other before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on March 11, 2020.

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  • News

March 11, 2020: The day everything changed

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day five years ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon (L), and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., (C) appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

RFK says most vaccine advisers have conflicts of interest. A report shows they don't

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members.

March 11, 2025
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  • Pien Huang
U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio sit down with Saudi and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday.

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  • World

Ukraine wants 'constructive, friendly' talks with the U.S. as they meet in Saudi Arabia

Diplomatic teams from Ukraine and the United States are holding talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday in steps toward ending a full-scale war started by Russia in 2022.

March 11, 2025
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  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Tuesday that he expects Republicans will pass a partisan spending bill on Tuesday, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration before the Friday shutdown deadline.

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  • Politics

With deadline looming Speaker predicts GOP can pass spending bill without Democrats

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La, told reporters on Tuesday that he believes Republicans will be able to pass a partisan spending bill without the help of Democrats.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Claudia Grisales
President Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6, including one to lift 25% tariffs for all goods compliant under USMCA trade agreement.

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  • Economy

As Trump downplays economic fears, this data shows people feel differently

Economists look for signs that a recession may be approaching by monitoring consumer confidence and business sentiment — two indicators of uncertainty.

March 11, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in California in 2021.

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  • Space

What to know about this week's 'blood worm moon' total lunar eclipse

This total lunar eclipse — the first in three years — will feature a "blood worm moon," so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it's occurring.

March 11, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
My best friend told me if I ever had kids, it would be the end of our friendship.

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My best friend said he'd unfriend me if I ever had kids

A reader is taken aback by her best friend's reaction to the possibility that she might want kids. He says that if she had kids, it would change everything between them. Friendship experts weigh in.

March 11, 2025
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  • Andee Tagle and
  • Beck Harlan
Recent moves to disband advisory committees that suggested ways to improve economic data — as well as comments from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — have raised concerns about the reliability of government data.

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  • Economy

How reliable is the government's economic data? Under Trump, there are real concerns

The disbanding of committees that consulted on government data — and comments from a senior official about changing how GDP is calculated — are raising alarm about the reliability of government data.

March 11, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley
Veterans and volunteers with Force Blue use an assembly line to transport stones to build a rubble wall in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.

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  • National

Former Navy SEALs say they're making marine conservation cool

A group called Force Blue, which does conservation work across the country, is providing what they call "mission therapy" to veterans who miss the camaraderie and the sense of purpose of service.

March 11, 2025
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  • Quil Lawrence
Sheep are for sale in a northern district of Algiers on June 8, 2024, ahead of the Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son.

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  • Africa

Drought-stricken Algeria plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of Islam's Eid Al-Adha

North Africa is enduring its seventh consecutive year of extreme heat and below-average rainfall. The drought has shrunk harvests and driven up the price of animal feed needed to raise livestock.

March 11, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte speaks inside the Southorn Stadium during a thanksgiving gathering organized by Hong Kong-based Filipino workers for the former populist president in Hong Kong on March 9, 2025.

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  • Asia

Former Philippine leader Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant over drug killings

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday on order of the International Criminal Court in connection with a case of crime against humanity, the Philippine government said.

March 11, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York City on March 10, 2025.

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  • Business

Stocks slump yet again as fears grow about tariffs -- and a recession

Investors appear increasingly worried about the impact of tariffs on the U.S. economy.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
Reconstruction on D.C.'s Black Lives Matter plaza began on Monday, March 10.

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  • National

City crews have begun painting over the 'Black Lives Matter' street mural in D.C.

In June 2020, the phrase "Black Lives Matter" had been painted on the pavement by the city in uppercase, yellow letters, covering two blocks on 16th Street, about a quarter mile from the White House.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The marquee at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta in September 2020.

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  • Movies

5 years after COVID closed theaters, movies are still struggling to climb back

The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks back on how his job changed during the early months of COVID-19.

March 10, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
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