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Specialist Gennaro Saporito works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

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  • Business

U.S. stocks drop as Nvidia slides and the fog of Trump's trade war thickens

The S&P 500 sank 2.2% after falling as much as 3.3% earlier. Such an amount would have vied for one of its worst losses in years before the historic swings that have upended Wall Street in recent weeks.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds a year-end press conference in Rome in January.

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  • Europe

Italy's Meloni will test her mettle as EU-U.S. bridge when she meets with Trump

Meloni secured the meeting at a critical juncture in the trade war. As the right-wing leader of her party she has, in a sense, been "knighted" to represent the European Union in meetings with Trump.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Headlights illuminate cobblestone streets in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, during an island-wide blackout, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Power blackout hits all of Puerto Rico as residents prepare for Easter weekend

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
President Trump speaks alongside coal and energy workers during an executive order signing ceremony at the White House on April 8.

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  • Environment

Trump orders coal revival, but market favors natural gas

The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's little economic incentive for utilities to bring it back when natural gas is so much cheaper.

April 17, 2025
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  • Adam Burke
President and CEO of National Public Radio Katherine Maher testified during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • Media

NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

April 16, 2025
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Tyler Bartlam,
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(EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined to produce this image.) Startrails are seen during the Lyrid meteor shower over Michaelskapelle on April 21, 2020 in Niederhollabrunn, Austria.

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  • Space

The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to dazzle the night sky beginning this week

The Lyrid meteor shower will reach a peak later this month, but stargazers can catch a first glimpse beginning Wednesday night.

April 16, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a press conference outside the governor's residence in Harrisburg after a Sunday morning arson attack.

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  • National

Governor's mansion arson suspect was angry about Gaza War, Pennsylvania police say

Shapiro, a Democrat, is Jewish and has said he supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

April 16, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
An unhoused resident sleeps on a dimly lit porch on the steps of a school in Austin. This week, all staff  at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates homelessness policy across the federal government, were put on leave.

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  • National

Trump administration has gutted an agency that coordinates homelessness policy

All staff were put on leave at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Congress created the entity in 1987 and, among other things, it helped drive down veterans homelessness.

April 16, 2025
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  • Jennifer Ludden
A 2013 file photo of the National Labor Relations Board headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Technology

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data

The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.

April 16, 2025
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  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
U.S. President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Bukele are exploring a proposal to send American citizens to be held in Salvadorean prisons, a move critics describe as dangerous and unconstitutional.

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  • National

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad

Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

April 16, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
Buford, an Anatolian Pyrenees, found 2-year-old Boden Allen nearly seven miles from the boy's home.

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  • National

Dog finds and rescues toddler who spent night lost and alone in Arizona desert

The two-year-old boy had wandered away from home on Monday evening and spent the night alone nearly seven miles from his home.

April 16, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
More than 200 people who the White House says are gang members were deported to El Salvador by the U.S. in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 16, 2025. (Photo by El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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  • National

Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time. The judge gave the U.S. until April 23 to respond.

April 16, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
The injectable drug Ozempic is shown in Houston on July 1, 2023.

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  • Science

The FDA warns patients about counterfeit Ozempic that may be in circulation

The agency and Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic, said Monday that they had learned about "several hundred units" of the drug that made it onto the market outside the company's approved supply chain.

April 16, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
People walk through a gate as they exit Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2025.

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  • Education

Harvard professor gives perspective on the Trump administration clash with university

What does the clash between Harvard and the Trump administration look like from the perspective of its faculty? NPR's Michel Martin asks Harvard Law School professor Nikolas Bowie.

April 16, 2025
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Destinee Adams
Police forcibly removed several protesters from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Tuesday town hall in Acworth, Ga.

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  • Politics

Protesters were stun-gunned and arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall

By the end of Greene's Tuesday town hall in Acworth, Ga., three people were arrested and two were hit with stun guns. Greene is one of many lawmakers confronted by angry constituents in recent weeks.

April 16, 2025
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