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The Senate passed legislation early Friday morning to fund President Trump's immigration enforcement agencies through the end of his term.
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NPR's Michel Martin asks former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye how votes by outgoing Senate Republicans are likely to affect President Trump's agenda.
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A case of New World screwworm has been found in a calf in Texas. The flesh-eating fly, which was eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960s, poses a major threat to the cattle industry.
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A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows many teachers are using AI to save time, but a majority are also worried the technology is making it harder for students to learn to think for themselves. -
Senate passes $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, Trump's agenda tests the limits of some lawmakers' support, John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information.
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A new HBO documentary by Questlove tells the story of the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire. Morning Edition host A Martinez speaks with band members Philip Bailey, Verdine White & Ralph Johnson.
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Through years of controversy and delayed construction, one Iraq veteran has been rehabilitating a Japanese garden in the middle of the on the vast VA campus in West Los Angeles.
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The Planet Money team traces the life of a tax loophole from creation, discovery, exploitation -- all the way to watching it get closed shut.
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A Black teen faces first-degree murder charges in a highly anticipated trial following the killing of a white teenager at a Frisco, Texas, track meet last year.
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President Trump continues to pursue very personal agenda items that are testing the limits of support from Republican members of Congress.
