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Andrew Roth (left) stands up from his wheelchair to give Jack Moran a hug at the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Roth was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, which Moran helped liberate while serving in the U.S. Army.<br><br><br><br>

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  • World

80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped free him

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Alexis Ratcliff, 19, (right) moved into her own apartment this week after living in a North Carolina hospital since she was 13. She was a baby when a car accident left her with significant disabilities.

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  • Health Care

The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro

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  • Investigations

Are you a military veteran who has been charged money to apply for VA benefits?

If you're a veteran who has been charged a fee to get help on your application for a VA disability rating or other benefits, NPR wants to hear from you!

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
U.S. service members set up tents to house migrants in February 2025, at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Several hundred tents were erected; so far none have been used.

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  • Investigations

Trump said he'd send 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo. He's sent about 500

Trump vowed in January to send up to 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo, but so far about 500 have been flown to and from there. Critics say his goal appears to be frightening migrants into self-deporting.

June 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Navy veteran Matthew Kelly's home in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly was left stranded when the VA abruptly ended a mortgage program that's been helping save thousands of vets homes.

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  • Investigations

Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Republicans have questions

NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
The Department of Health and Human Services notified 400 laid off CDC workers on Wednesday that their reduction in force had been "revoked."

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  • Investigations

More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Z fled Afghanistan to escape the Taliban, and was allowed to enter and stay in the U.S. in part because of Temporary Protected Status. The Trump administration is ending the program in July.

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  • Investigations

Despite ongoing Taliban threats, the U.S. is ending some protections for Afghans

Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. fear deportation as the administration revokes some protections, despite Taliban threats and ongoing instability in Afghanistan. Many fear for their lives if forced to return.

June 12, 2025
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  • Monika Evstatieva
Federal judges have stood as checks on President Trump's power — but law clerks say behind closed doors, some created toxic, fear-driven workplaces where speaking out could end a career.

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  • Investigations

Federal judges are powerful. Some of their law clerks describe a toxic work culture

Federal judges have stood as checks on Trump's power — but law clerks say behind closed doors, some created toxic, fear-driven workplaces where speaking out could end a career.

June 10, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
A truck is stuck in water and mud following flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.

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  • Investigations

Recovery Failure: Why we struggle to rebuild for the next storm

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't. 

June 08, 2025
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  • Laura Sullivan
Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars. This adds months to the duration that kids are confined away from their families.

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  • Investigations

Young offenders are often denied credit for 'dead time' behind bars

Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars

June 06, 2025
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  • Caitlin Thompson
Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. They were determined to rescue them.

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  • Investigations

Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp

Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was complicated — and took years.

May 30, 2025
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Paul Ingrassia, who is currently serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, has been nominated to the lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

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  • Investigations

Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency

President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

May 30, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Shane Jenkins, seen here in police bodycam footage from Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted of multiple charges in connection with the Capitol riot, including assaulting police. Months after receiving a pardon from President Trump, Jenkins visited the White House along with another former Jan. 6 defendant.

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  • Investigations

A Jan. 6 rioter convicted of assaulting police scored a visit to the White House

Two pardoned Jan. 6 rioters posted photos and videos of themselves visiting the White House. One of them was convicted of assaulting police and texted after the riot, "I have murder in my heart."

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
People participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the main offices of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on March 28, days before thousands of CDC employees were laid off.

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  • Investigations

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Nick Fuentes, seen here in 2020, is widely known for his white nationalist and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial. An official in the Trump administration advocated for the social media platform X to remove its ban on Fuentes over hate speech and was also spotted in the crowd at a 2024 Fuentes rally.

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  • Investigations

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

May 16, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
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