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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
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
President Trump meets in the Oval Office on June 5.

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  • Politics

Trump threatens to cut Musk contracts as feud quickly escalates

President Trump and his former adviser, Elon Musk, lashed out at each other on social media Thursday in a public feud that has ramped up since Musk left his role with the administration last week.

June 05, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
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
In this file photo from 2024, Taliban military helicopters fly to celebrate the third anniversary of Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, at the Bagram Air Base, in Bagram, Parwan province on August 14, 2024. President Trump banned the arrival of Afghan nationals to the U.S. with exceptions for those who have special immigrant visas.

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  • National Security

Trump's travel ban includes Afghanistan, where thousands await U.S. resettlement

President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes Afghanistan. Since American troops left in August of 2021, many Afghans have already arrived in the U.S. but many more are still waiting.

June 05, 2025
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  • Greg Myre and
  • Megan Pratz
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
A tour guide walks with a group of people attending an Uncomfortable Oxford Tour, in Oxford, on Oct. 20, 2023.

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  • World

International students look to the U.K. instead of the U.S. amid Trump's visa plans

Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.

June 05, 2025
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  • Willem Marx
Then-President Joe Biden and President-elect Trump arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony in January. Trump said Wednesday he had commissioned an investigation into his predecessor's administration.

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  • Politics

Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use

Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: "Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."

June 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
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
The mother of a 17-year-old boy detained in the Prince George's County Detention Center bought greeting cards for her son but couldn't bring herself to mail them. Beneath the cards is a photo of her son in a science lab at his high school.

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  • National

Maryland fails to protect young inmates in adult jails

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding every year.

June 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Baye
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
A visitor offers a tribute after leaving a bouquet of flowers at a makeshift memorial for victims of an attack outside of the Boulder County, Colo., courthouse as a light rain falls Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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  • National

Judge blocks deportation of Boulder attacker's family

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the wife and five children of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, responding to what the judge called an urgent situation to ensure the protection of the family's constitutional rights.

June 04, 2025
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