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Blanca Hernandez (right) helps Jessica Lemos pick out clothes at the Elmwood Correctional Facility's Goodwill store on Jan. 9, 2025. Both are employees at the store, which allows exiting inmates to choose two outfits.

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  • National

Jail Goodwill store offers job training and a new look on the way out

At the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, Calif., incarcerated women organize and run a Goodwill store, where women nearing release get to shop for clothing.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Krans
President Trump speaks to the press from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 30. On Tuesday, the president plans to sign on executive order pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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  • Politics

Trump plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council

The president's executive order will also cut future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
President Trump speaks to reporters next to Air Force One after arriving back at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Feb. 2.

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  • Economy

Trump's words show why he's imposing tariffs. And it's not a goal he campaigned on

President Trump wants to impose sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with two economists who unpacked the repercussions for the United States.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

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  • National

ACLU sues Trump administration over asylum ban

The lawsuit alleges Trump's actions go against protections provided by Congress and backed by the courts.

February 03, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
President Trump says fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. is a key reason for imposing tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico. But NPR found that Trump and his team made false statements about the fentanyl crisis. Canada, in particular, plays no meaningful role in America's fentanyl-overdose epidemic.

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  • Health

Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing

The White House says fentanyl smuggled to the U.S. justifies tariffs against Canada, China and Mexico. But fentanyl deaths and smuggling have been dropping fast — and Canada plays almost no role.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
The flags of Mexico, Canada and the United States are shown near the Ambassador Bridge, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Detroit.

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  • Latin America

Trump puts Canada and Mexico tariffs on hold

U.S. tariffs on Mexico and Canada will be put on hold for 30 days.

February 03, 2025
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  • Tara Neill,
  • Eyder Peralta,
  • and 1 more
A car hauler carries Toyota RAV4 vehicles as it enters to cross the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario to go to Detroit, Michigan on February 3.

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  • Business

Trump pauses tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Here's why it matters to automakers

The auto industry has built a North American supply chain that ping-pongs parts between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Tariffs of 25%, if actually imposed, would be costly for buyers and the industry.

February 03, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske
Benson Boone does a flip off the piano while performing his hit "Beautiful Things" at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2025. Boone was one of several rising artists who made their Grammy debuts this year with far more adeptness than most rookies.

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  • Music

Gen Z conquers the Grammys

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar won the night's biggest awards, but the real takeaway from the Grammys is that a wave of younger stars has arrived on the pop scene, fully prepared to own the spotlight.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers
An independent review stated a third-party instructor who led a strenuous training session for the school's lacrosse team appeared to lack credentials to supervise group exercise, which led to the hospitalization of some athletes.

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  • National

Navy SEAL was unqualified to lead Tufts lacrosse workout, report finds

The university will change its approval process for team trainings, among other recommended remedies, after the group workout that left lacrosse players hospitalized in September.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here, he appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 16.

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  • National

Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work

The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Sarah Wildman and Orli, photographed in early summer 2021. Orli was finishing a second round of chemotherapy after her liver cancer had metastasized when she was asked to participate in a project chronicling the beauty of baldness.

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  • Children's Health

'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

February 03, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Cannabis is legal in many states but not federally. As more Americans consume weed products, concern is growing about the risks of traces of contaminants such as pesticides and heavy metals.

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  • Health

How safe is your weed? Patchy regulations may leave contaminants in the weed supply

Millions of Americans use cannabis and would like to think the products they buy are safe. But regulation is state by state and full of holes. NPR's new series digs into the risks and solutions.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Brian Mann
With <em>Cowboy Carter</em>, which also won best country album, Beyoncé finally took home the Grammy she'd most coveted.

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  • Music

Grammys 2025: 10 takeaways from Beyoncé's biggest night

A rundown of all the surprises and snubs of the 67th Grammy awards, from a historic win for Beyoncé to show-stopping moments from Chappell Roan and Doechii.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Nyota, a bonobo living at Ape Initiative.

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  • Science

These bonobos know what you don't know

A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will try to help.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Workers move bags of yellow lentils at an aid operation run by USAID, Catholic Relief Services and the Relief Society of Tigray in Mekele, Ethiopia, on June 16, 2021.

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  • World

What is USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development?

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

February 03, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
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