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A view of shipping cranes at the Port of Los Angeles on May 06, 2025 in San Pedro, California. Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are seeing significant drops in expected cargo ships coming into port this week due to tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration.

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  • Business

In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35%

The immediate impact of the cargo decline affects virtually every business around the ports, but port officials say this downturn will soon be felt much more broadly.

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Futterman
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer prepares a Salvadoran immigrant without legal status for a deportation flight.

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  • Politics

Trump administration plans to deport migrants to Libya

A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration is planning to deport migrants to Libya, as immigration lawyers scramble to block any flights.

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Local residents and members of the media examine a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday.

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  • Asia

Tensions escalate as Pakistan calls India's operation 'an act of war'

Pakistan says India's strikes on Wednesday is "an act of war." India's military described its operation as targeting "terrorist infrastructure."

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of the late Pope Francis was not elected, Wednesday.

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  • Religion

Black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel as cardinals cast an unsuccessful first vote

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pope should be.

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Ventre
The Walt Disney Company announced on Wednesday that the seventh Disney theme park will be in Abu Dhabi. This rendering shows the plans.

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  • Arts & Life

Disney's newest theme park will be in Abu Dhabi

The company's theme parks and cruises make up a fast-growing section of its profits. The new park will be located on Yas Island with a number of existing attractions. 

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China's Guangdong province in April 2025.

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  • Asia

U.S. and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva in first sign of thaw in trade war

The superpowers have been locked in a geopolitical blinking contest, waiting for the other side to reach out. The talks in Switzerland are the first concrete sign of a potential thaw in the deadlock.

May 07, 2025
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By:
  • Sherisse Pham
A flare rises in the air over the hill near the main town of Poonch district, India, on Wednesday. India said it carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" inside Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, days after it accused Pakistan of involvement in a deadly militant attack on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir.

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  • World

India launches missile attacks on Pakistan

India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • NPR's International Desk
Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died. The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification.

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  • World

Syrian Druze recall what they believe to be past lives — even vivid details

In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Canadian Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins (right) and Cardinal Francis Leo walk on Via della Conciliazione street near the Vatican, with St. Peter's Basilica in the background, in Rome on Monday.

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  • Religion

The conclave to choose a new pope is about to begin

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals will begin the secretive process known as a conclave.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Burke and
  • Bill Chappell
Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, on Tuesday.

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  • Africa

Port Sudan was a safe haven in Sudan's civil war. Now it's being attacked

The strikes are the first on the de-facto capital along the Red Sea. About a quarter of a million refugees have fled to the state where Port Sudan resides since the civil war erupted two years ago.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holds an election rally in Windsor, Ontario, on April 26.

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  • News

Trump and Canadian PM to meet today. And, the best Met Gala looks

Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are set to meet today as tensions between their two countries rise. And, the best looks from last night's star-studded Met Gala.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holds an election rally in Windsor, Ontario, on April 26.

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  • Politics

Trump has said Canada should be the 51st state. Today, he meets its prime minister

Prime Minister Mark Carney won the Canadian election vowing to take on President Trump. Tuesday, they meet for the first time in the Oval Office.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young (right) comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, March 26.

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  • Asia

South Korea halted its adoption fraud investigation. Adoptees still demand the truth

The suspension of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission raises questions about future efforts to investigate the country's foreign adoption program.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.

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  • Latin America

El Salvador president orders arrest of bus company heads for defying free ride policy

Bukele had announced that all bus fares for a week would be completely free due to construction the government was carrying out on one of the main highways running through San Salvador.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves after high-level talks on Ukraine and its security, at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris Thursday, April 17.

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  • Politics

Trump diminishing 'own scope of control' with Rubio in dual roles, says John Bolton

Marco Rubio serving as both Secretary of State and national security adviser could be "ultimately disadvantageous" to President Trump, says former adviser John Bolton.

May 05, 2025
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel
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