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A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after President Trump toured the aircraft on Feb. 15. The aircraft is now in San Antonio and needs extensive overhauling to become the next Air Force One.

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  • Politics

Graphics: Here's what it will take to transform the Qatari jet into Air Force One

The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf

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  • Arts & Life

Why you should fight to keep old friends

Nina Badzin, host of a friendship podcast, explains why staying friends with people from our past matters — and how to nurture relationships with old friends across time and distance.

May 23, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra,
  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler,
  • and 1 more
From left: Vice President Vance, an orange cat, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

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  • National

Kristi Noem couldn't define habeas corpus. Can you? Find out in the quiz!

Tush pushes, prison breaks, luxury jets and orange cats: This week's quiz is the usual potpourri of the silly and sublime. Actually, not the latter.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
Loving Day is on June 12. The day commemorates the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage.

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  • Arts & Life

NPR wants to hear from interracial couples to commemorate Loving Day

Loving Day, the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage, is on June 12. NPR wants to hear from people who celebrate this day.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
In this photo provided by the New South Wales Police, emergency workers wade through floodwaters as they prepare inflatable boats to effect rescues near Taree, Australia, Thursday, May 22, 2025.

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  • World

Record floodwaters in eastern Australia leave 4 dead and 1 missing

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by the flooding in New South Wales, after days of heavy rain. Four bodies have been retrieved from floodwaters since Wednesday.

May 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Debris covers the ground after a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting homes and cars on fire and forcing evacuations early Thursday, May 22, 2025.

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  • National

Music talent agent among dead after jet crashes into San Diego neighborhood

Six people, including music talent agent Dave Shapiro, were on board a private jet that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood on Thursday.

May 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Members of Yale crew, left, and Harvard crew, right, greet one another after the 4-mile course along the Thames River for the 146th Harvard-Yale Regatta, in New London, Conn., on May 28, 2011.

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  • Sports

Trump's Harvard visa threat could wipe out several of the school's sports teams

Some of Harvard's sports teams could be wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the school with the nation's largest athletic program ineligible for international student visas.

May 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Stereolab released their first album of original material in 15 years on Friday.

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  • Music

The best new albums out May 23

Stereolab returns. Ganavya comes in peace. Marc Ribot sings. Robert Moore of 90.9 The Bridge joins Stephen Thompson to share the best albums out this week.

May 23, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson and
  • Robert Moore
The National Fire Academy sits inside this complex in Emmitsburg, in western Maryland. Thousands of firefighters come here for training each year, but the Trump administration canceled in-person classes in early March, seemingly to cut costs.

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  • National

In reversal, Trump administration restores classes at the National Fire Academy

The academy in Emmitsburg, Md., is often described as the national war college for firefighting. It offers training that ranges from leadership to how to conduct fire, arson and blast investigations.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
The federal government wants states to turn over data about tens of millions of people who received food assistance benefits since 2020. A new lawsuit challenges that data request.

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  • Politics

Lawsuit challenges USDA demand for food stamp data as some states prepare to comply

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Stephen Fowler
The Plano EPIC mosque is seen behind a row of homes in Plano. Many muslims like to live near their mosque to facilitate practicing their faith daily.

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  • National

Proposed Muslim development in Texas brings inquiries by DOJ and state officials

The project, known as EPIC City, has yet to break ground, but members of this Muslim community feel stereotyped.

May 22, 2025
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  • Caroline Love
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

MAHA Commission report paints a dark picture of U.S. children's health

The Health Secretary's report blames environmental toxins, ultraprocessed foods and more for the poor state of kids' health in the U.S.

May 22, 2025
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  • Will Stone
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted for now the Trump administration's emergency request to let him fire the heads of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of independent agency boards — for now

At issue is President Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwen Wilcox, who still has three years left on her term, and Cathy Harris, who still has four years left on her term as a member of the MSPB.

May 22, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
People walk through a gate as they exit Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University  in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • Education

Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students

International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny and
  • Jonaki Mehta
A temporary memorial outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

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  • National

Suspect charged with murder in killing of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers

Federal authorities are also investigating the Washington, D.C. shootings as a hate crime and an act of terrorism.

May 22, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • Becky Sullivan,
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