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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump and his aides cannot block critics on Twitter. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Trump can’t block critics from his Twitter account, judge says

The White House did not give any indication whether the administration will appeal the decision.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

The princes, the president and the fortune seekers

Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Trump, spent a year cultivating two princes from the Arabian Peninsula, hoping to nail down over $1 billion in business.

8 years ago

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Orchestra begins European tour, including first stop in Israel in 25 years

The Philadelphia Orchestra has left town for a two-week European tour. A planned three-day swing through Israel has raised hackles.

8 years ago

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A Palestinian woman argues with a member of the Israeli security forces as they disperse a demonstration outside the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Deep contradictions remain at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

An NPR team visited both Jerusalem and Gaza and came away with six observations. Think of them as six "buts" — where a statement is true, but so is a contrasting statement.

8 years ago

First responders and law enforcement gather in the field where an airliner crashed after takeoff Friday, just outside the international airport in Havana, Cuba. (Andrea Rodriguez/AP)
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Community

More than 100 feared dead after plane crashes near Havana airport

A plane carrying more than 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Havana's José Martí International Airport on Friday.

8 years ago

Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle will be married this Saturday, and you can easily catch it on TV. (Matt Dunham/AP)
NPR
Community

How to watch the royal wedding in the way that’s right for you

It's wedding time. Wedding fever! Or else, of course, wedding lack-of-interest, which is also entirely valid, not only for Americans but for British people as well.

8 years ago

An image provided by NOAA shows the hole in the ozone layer in 2015. NOAA scientists now say emissions of one ozone-depleting chemical appear to be rising, even though the chemical has been banned and reported production has essentially been at zero for years.  (NOAA via AP)
NPR
Science

Banned, ozone-depleting chemical is still being produced somewhere, scientists say

The illicit emissions are believed to be coming from somewhere in eastern Asia, but otherwise, nothing is known about the offender. It's a scientific whodunit.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem ignites old conflict

Guests: Stephen Farrell, Michael Koplow, Elizabeth Dias Violence erupted in Gaza this week; nearly 60 Palestinian ...

Air Date: May 17, 2018 10:00 am

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Hua Qu, the wife of Chinese-American Xiyue Wang, poses with a portrait of her family in Princeton, N.J., on May 9. Families of Americans detained in Iran are hoping President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will not make it harder to get their love ones freed. (Matt Rourke/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

For relatives of U.S. prisoners in Iran, uncertainty grows after Iran deal pullout

Former diplomats warn that the Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal will complicate efforts to free American citizens detained in Iran.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on immigration policy in California, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Wednesday. (Evan Vucci/AP(
NPR
Politics & Policy

During roundtable, Trump calls some unauthorized immigrants ‘animals’

"We're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals," the president said.

8 years ago

In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Andy Wong/AP Photo, File)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The profiteer-in-chief goes belly up for China’s big bucks

The U.S. Constitution has been reduced to a scrap of parchment, rendered irrelevant by the profiteer-in-chief. Check out TrumpR ...

8 years ago

In this April 27, 2018 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, (left), and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands after signing on a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. The two Koreas will hold a high-level meeting on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, to discuss setting up military and Red Cross talks aimed at reducing border tension and restarting reunions between families separated by the Korean War. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)
Politics & Policy

South Korea news agency: North Korea threatens to cancel U.S. summit

North Korea canceled a high-level meeting Wednesday with South Korea and threatened also to call off a historic summit planned next month with the United States.

8 years ago

Palestinian demonstrators run or take cover from tear gas fired by Israeli forces at the Israel-Gaza border. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

With 60 killed in Gaza, U.N. Rights Commissioner criticizes Israel

On Monday, the White House blamed the death toll on the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

8 years ago

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, before the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels in 2017. (Olivier Hoslet/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

George Soros group leaves Hungary, citing ‘hate campaign’

Billionaire George Soros' pro-democracy Open Society Foundations will pull out of Hungary following growing pressure from the right-wing government there.

8 years ago

Scholars from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia attended a conference on Friday to discuss stability in Afghanistan. Indonesian President Joko Widodo (center) shakes hands with Qibla Ayaz, chairman of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology. (Dita Alangkara/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

70 Muslim clerics issue fatwa against violence and terrorism

It is not uncommon for Islamic clerics to issue such fatwas. In January, more than 1,800 clerics in Pakistan declared a directive that forbade suicide bombings.

8 years ago

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