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A driver-mechanic with the call sign Molfar (right), the unit's commander call-signed Grizzly (center) and a gunner with the call sign Psycho are on a BMP-1, a modernized Soviet-era infantry fighting vehicle, before a mission to the coast of Dnipro River, in Ukraine's Kherson region, on Jan. 4.

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Ukraine uses souped-up Soviet-era weapons to defend a vital river from Russia

As Ukraine's line of defense grows thin, this unit is using a modernized Soviet-era vehicle to stop Russian forces from crossing the river and taking Kherson.

January 28, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
NPR has long tracked prices at a Walmart near Savannah, Ga., and this time, we shopped for things that got cheaper — in all, about a fifth of the 96 items on our shopping list.

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  • Business

Has anything gotten cheaper? We shopped at Walmart to find the answer

Some things have gotten cheaper, even in an era of high prices. What are those things? We've been tracking them at a Walmart in Georgia.

January 28, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
With funding from the National Science Foundation and other government grants, scientists and meteorologists from the Center for Severe Weather Research study a storm in Oklahoma in 2017. They get close to supercell storms and tornadoes to better understand their formation and improve prediction.

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  • Science

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

January 27, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
"Pretty much any Saturday that The Roots aren't touring and they're taping, I'm in the audience watching," Questlove says of <em>SNL</em>.

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  • Television

Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)

Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, highlights the show's most iconic musical performances and comedy sketches — and addresses the show's "unhummable" theme song.

January 27, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Questlove at the 2023 Academy Awards. His documentary, <em>Ladies and Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music, </em>airs Monday on NBC.

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  • Movies

8 revelations from Questlove's new doc about SNL's music

Questlove's newest documentary features interviews and clips from 50 years of musical performances on Saturday Night Live.

January 27, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation on Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York.

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  • National

How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

President Trump put an end to a policy that restricted federal agents from making immigration arrests at certain locations, including schools. It's already affecting school staff, kids and parents.

January 27, 2025
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  • Robin Young and
  • Hafsa Quraishi

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  • Book News & Features

'The First State of Being' and 'Chooch Helped' win top children's book awards

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

January 27, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
A U.S. Air Force captain goes over the day's mission route map with an Afghan National Army officer with assistance from an Afghan interpreter (left), before the U.S.-Afghan convoy sets off in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on March 16, 2009.

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  • National

Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump's order on refugees

Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.

January 27, 2025
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Juliana Kim
Commuters cross London Bridge. Maybe some of them have a four-day workweek.

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  • Business

200 U.K. companies have opted for a four-day workweek, latest data shows

The industries most represented among the group include marketing and PR, charities and nonprofits, and technology.

January 27, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes looks on as U.S. President Trump delivers remarks on his policy to end tax on tips in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 25, 2025.

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  • Law

Oath Keepers founder no longer banned from D.C., U.S. Capitol

The judge said it was "reasonable" the Justice Department interpreted Trump's Jan. 6 commutations to cover the defendants' prison sentences and wipe away their terms of supervised release.

January 27, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
A U.S. Army soldier monitors the border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, last week. President Trump ordered 1,500 more active military personnel to the southern border, part of a broad immigration crackdown during his first week in office.

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  • National

Trump's immigration orders are a blueprint for sweeping policy changes

President Trump began his immigration crackdown with a flurry of executive orders. Immigration experts say they lay out how he hopes to transform enforcement at the southern U.S. border and beyond.

January 27, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
A rhesus macaque looks on from the quarantine room of a future animal shelter in Nogent-le-Phaye near Chartres, France, in 2019.

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  • Animals

The last of the escaped South Carolina lab monkeys have been recovered

The female rhesus macaques staged an escape from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina last year.

January 27, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Elon Musk made a surprise virtual appearance at a campaign rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party in Halle, Germany, on Saturday.

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  • World

Elon Musk faces criticism for encouraging Germans to move beyond 'past guilt'

Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and right after he was criticized for making what many viewers interpreted as a Nazi salute during an inauguration speech.

January 27, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on Jan. 27. Chinese firm DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts.

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  • Business

U.S. stock markets tumble as investors worry about DeepSeek

The Chinese AI company may be about to burst Silicon Valley's bubble.

January 27, 2025
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  • Maria Aspan
Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday.

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  • World

Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after liberation

Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.

January 27, 2025
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