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Norway's chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen gestures during a game in the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata on Nov. 17, 2024.

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  • Series: Join The Game

Team World manages a draw in marathon chess showdown against grandmaster Magnus Carlsen

Carlsen squared off against 143,000 players from around the world — but the chess grandmaster was unable to clinch a victory over Team World.

May 20, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
The NBA Conference Finals begin Tuesday. Depending on the outcome, several years-long title streaks will come to an end. (Left to right): Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks

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  • Sports

The NBA playoffs will end a years-long title drought. The only question is: whose?

It's impossible to predict what will happen in the NBA's conference finals matchups. But one thing is for certain: One long-suffering fanbase is about to have something to celebrate.

May 20, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new approach to evaluating and approving COVID vaccines.

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  • Health

A stricter FDA policy for COVID vaccines could limit future access

Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get immunized.

May 20, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Churchgoers pray during service at the Evangelical church Sunday, May 11, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. The service focused on celebrating the mothers in attendance, as well as Maurilio Ambrocio's continued detention in an immigration facility. 

(Lexi Parra for NPR)

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  • USPS

In Florida, an immigrant pastor's detention sends a community reeling

In one weekend in May, more than a 1,000 immigrants were arrested in Florida. The massive crackdown has Trump supporters asking why their neighbors were detained and must be deported.

May 20, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
The U.S. Supreme Court order ending temporary protected status — TPS — worries Florida's Venezuelan community and what it might mean for possible deportations of 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States.

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  • USPS

In Florida, Venezuelans worry about the potential loss of temporary protected status

When the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday the Trump administration could strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans while litigation continues in the lower courts, the move sent shockwaves.

May 20, 2025
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  • Greg Allen
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection technician examines overseas parcels after they were scanned at the agency's overseas mail inspection facility at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Feb. 23, 2024.

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  • Economy

Trump has imposed a lot of tariffs. But here's why collecting them can be hard

Collecting Trump's tariffs could be tricky. The agencies that screen imports say they're frequently overwhelmed and understaffed, and experts say exporters are becoming cannier at evading taxes.

May 20, 2025
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  • Emily Feng
Jo Strogatz, 23, is the grand-prize winner of the NPR College Podcast Challenge. She spoke with NPR at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, where she produced <em>Just Friends</em>.

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  • Education

This award-winning podcast explores finding happiness as a young, single person

From hundreds of entries, our judges chose one student's intimate telling of the value of lifelong friendships and being single as the grand-prize winner of the NPR College Podcast Challenge.

May 20, 2025
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  • Jonaki Mehta and
  • Janet W. Lee
A United States Air Force Boeing C-17 used for deportation flights is pictured at Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas on February 13, 2025.

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  • USPS

Judge questions government lawyers over alleged deportations to South Sudan

A Massachusetts federal judge questioned whether deportations of people to countries other than their own violated his prior court order.

May 20, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Scott Neuman
Elon Musk speaking during a town hall meeting on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisc. ahead of a state Supreme Court election where he invested millions of dollars, only to see his preferred candidate lose. The billionaire announced on Tuesday that he planned to spend less on politics going forward.

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  • Politics

Musk to slow down political spending: 'I think I've done enough'

The billionaire executive was Trump's biggest donor in 2024. Now, however, he is planning to cut back his spending on politics, he said on Tuesday.

May 20, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Chicks mill around a stall at the First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday in Camden, Del. They are among 12,000 chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.

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  • National

12,000 chicks found abandoned in postal truck raise concerns about animal shipping

A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days. Another 4,000 of the animals died.

May 20, 2025
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  • Lydia Calitri
President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on May 20, 2025, announcing plans for the "Golden Dome," a national ballistic and cruise missile defense system.

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  • National Security

Trump unveils ambitious and expensive plans for 'Golden Dome' missile defense

The plan includes a vast array of space-based sensors and interceptors.

May 20, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Author Banu Mushtaq (left) and translator Deepa Bhasthi won this year's International Booker Prize, for the book <em>Heart Lamp.</em><strong> </strong>

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  • Books

'Heart Lamp' wins International Booker, with stories of India's Muslim women and girls

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection "something genuinely new for English readers."

May 20, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington.

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  • USPS

DHS secretary misstates meaning of habeas corpus under Senate scrutiny

Facing sharp questioning from Democratic lawmakers, the director of Homeland Security incorrectly described the constitutional right as a presidential authority to deport individuals.

May 20, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman

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  • News

Georgia Today: Deadly shootings in Macon; Savannah PD trained on LGBTQ hate crimes; Atlanta author

On the May 20 edition: Macon police investigate two recent shootings; Savannah Pride Center trains city police on LGBTQ hate crimes; an Atlanta author's new memoir compares her story with Virginia Woolf's.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Jake Cook
Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 world leaders summit in Italy, June 13, 2024.

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  • Politics

In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline

Tapper's book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman."

May 20, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
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