A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Always loved our converstions about Russia and foreign policy. Kevin Klose was a great leader and he will be missed. www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...

My latest: www.npr.org/2026/04/14/g...

Sad news from the NPR family. Brian Jarboe was all you would want in a colleague- talented, kind and fun. He is missed www.npr.org/2026/04/13/n...

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Vance, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu all support Orbán, which is all the evidence you need that he is way behind in the polls (which as a matter of fact he is) and running a wild campaign of lies (which as a matter of fact he is).

Shouldn’t it be “rain down” and not “reign down?”

TRUMP IN ONE SINGLE EVENT - "They won't be there for us" - "We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already" - "This isn't 'need'" - "If we need anything, they should be jumping to help us" - "We want them to come & help us w/the strait" - My attitude is we don't need anybody"

I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A sound rich, informative piece from my colleague in Moscow. Take a listen! www.npr.org/2026/03/10/n...

How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

My colleagues across the region report on the war, one week on. Take a few minutes to listen! www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

Surreal scenes from my colleague now in Venezuela. Take a listen! www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex. n.pr/4suyWcZ

The US Agency for Global Media, which is run by Kari Lake, has just failed an audit. The organization's finances are too chaotic even to assess. www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-f...

EXCLUSIVE: The strike that destroyed a school in Minab, Iran was larger than has been previously reported. A nearby clinic was also hit. The evidence suggests a precision strike against an IRGC base that was adjacent to the school. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

LOVE THIS 💗

The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela. n.pr/4r9YUlc

I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Fact check: The US trades a lot more with China than Canada does - not just in absolute $ but also relative to each country's total trade. * US trade with China = 10.9% of total US trade * Canada's trade with China = 7.9% of total Canadian trade Data sources: x.com/rolandparis/...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

US President Donald Trump says that Russia's Vladimir Putin had agreed to join his controversial "Board of Peace" -- despite the Kremlin so far saying it was still studying the invite.

Loud noises heard in Venezuela capital, southern area without electricity reut.rs/3MVr1WJ

The Trump admin wants to take away citizenship from people who have already gone through the naturalization process. Given the way DHS's quotas for immigration arrests/deportations have gone, I can't imagine that only the 'worst of the worst' will be targeted www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/... @shaneisland.bsky.social

My first contribution to this fun series from NPR’s International desk www.npr.org/2025/12/17/g...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Heartbroken for the families and friends of Ella Cook, a Brown sophomore from Mountain Brook, Ala., and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old from Virginia whose family immigrated from Uzbekistan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

‘Voodoo Rituals’ and Banana Wars: U.S. Military Action in Latin America www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun

Read Siegfried Hecker on how Washington helped end “the era of explosive nuclear testing”—and what the United States stands to lose if it restarts these tests today:

It's Books We Love Day, aka the best day of the year, shepherded by @bethnovey.bsky.social and the rest of the stellar books team at @npr.org!

Russia unleashed heavy artillery fire on Zaporizhzhia, striking a supermarket and an apartment building,Regional Military Administration reports. Preliminary reports indicate high number of casualties.

Pittsburgh Riverhounds win USL Championship title, defeat FC Tulsa https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-riverhounds-win-usl-championship-fc-tulsa-penalty-shootout/69518899

My colleague says his heart sank as he got a glimpse of the devastation in Gaza. Must listen: www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...