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Starting this fall, NCAA Division I schools will be able to pay players directly up to a salary cap of $20.5 million.

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With $2.7 billion settlement approved, college sports' big money era is officially here

The settlement in House v. NCAA brings an end to the NCAA's long-standing tradition of amateurism. Starting this fall, schools will be able to pay players directly up to a salary cap of $20.5 million.

June 06, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks during an April 4 news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., after her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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  • USPS

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges

Abrego Garcia faces criminal charges for allegedly transporting migrants without legal status around the country, according to a Justice Department indictment.

June 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
The Social Security Administration office in San Francisco

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  • Law

Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records

The order, for now, overturns actions that limited DOGE's access to sensitive private information. In a separate case, the court said DOGE did not have to share internal records with a watchdog group.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Anuli Ononye
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse in Houston for a bankruptcy hearing in June 2024.

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  • National

3 years in, Sandy Hook families still wait to collect what Alex Jones owes them

The Infowars founder declared bankruptcy after families sued him for defamation and won more than a billion dollars in damages, but Jones has yet to pay them a dime.

June 06, 2025
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  • Tovia Smith
People wait in a cue before being led into a downtown Chicago building where an immigration court presides in November 2024 in Chicago.

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He was fired under Biden. Under Trump, he's now leading an immigration court

His rehiring raises questions about the neutrality of immigration judges, who are supposed to be impartial and whose decisions determine if someone can stay or must leave the country.

June 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A relief sculpture rests on a gate to the entrance of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 2016.

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  • Law

Judge puts temporary hold on Trump's latest ban on Harvard's foreign students

Admitted students around the world are anxiously tracking the school's feud with the Trump administration, which is seeking to keep it from enrolling international students.

June 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
People place white carnation flowers on the fence of the Krome Detention Center during a vigil protesting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations in Miami on May 24, 2025.

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  • National

In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers

ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.

June 05, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
FBI Director Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last month.

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  • Law

FBI Director Patel, a longtime bureau critic, begins to put his stamp on the agency

Since taking the helm more than 100 days ago, Patel has yet to shutter the FBI headquarters and reopen it as a museum as he once said he would, but he has begun trying to remake the bureau.

June 05, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
The Supreme Court is seen on April 7 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Unanimous Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in Wisconsin case

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that Catholic Charities can opt out of participating in a state unemployment compensation program in Wisconsin.

June 05, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
A person rests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Unanimous Supreme Court rules against Mexico in guns case

The Court dismissed Mexico's claim that U.S. gun manufacturers aided and abetted the pipeline of weapons from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.

June 05, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
Marlean Ames in her lawyer's office in Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 20. Ames claims she was passed over for jobs because she is a straight woman and that gay people were given positions she was more qualified for.

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with straight Ohio woman who claimed workplace discrimination

The court unanimously sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work because she is straight.

June 05, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
President Donald Trump waves to guests from South Portico of the White House during an event on the South Lawn on June 04, in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

Trump issues a new travel ban. And, GOP raises concerns over the budget bill

Trump has signed a proclamation banning travelers from a dozen countries starting on Monday. And, Elon Musk's criticism of the budget bill is raising GOP concerns.

June 05, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
Kirk Stange, a family law attorney with 25 years in the business, told NPR that divorce filings hit their peak in March and April, then again in August and September.

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  • Law

Divorce lawyers say it's a seasonal business. Here's why

Divorce lawyers know certain times of the year are much busier than others. They and researchers have found seasonal patterns around divorce filings.

June 05, 2025
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  • Vanessa Romo
Former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribery and related charges. President Trump's pardon of Jenkins last week has gone down badly with people in Culpeper, Va., which voted for Trump in 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

Many in Virginia's Culpeper County are unhappy with the president's pardon of a sheriff convicted of bribery. Trump called him a victim "persecuted by the Radical Left 'monsters' and 'left for dead.'"

June 03, 2025
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  • Frank Langfitt
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in criminal court in Manhattan on May 30, 2025.

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  • Law

Harvey Weinstein's new trial is almost over. It could be a litmus test for #MeToo

Weinstein's sex crimes conviction in New York was overturned last year. In a new trial, three accusers have testified that Weinstein assaulted them. Closing arguments are underway.

June 03, 2025
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  • Ilya Marritz
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