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U.S. to exit 66 international organizations in further retreat from global cooperation : NPR
The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building on Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as […]
White House says ‘all options’ on the table for Greenland : NPR
Homes covered by snow are seen from the sea in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption toggle caption Evgeniy Maloletka/AP The White House is standing by President Trump’s interest in Greenland, saying “all options” are on the table as the administration weighs a potential acquisition of the territory that’s controlled by […]
A sequoia tree grows in Paris : NPR
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. In over a decade of strolling through my favorite Parisian park, I never noticed it. A real California sequoia — here in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. The park, a former landfill, transformed under […]
Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111 : NPR
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937. Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection hide caption toggle caption Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a […]
Trump to meet with House Republicans amid questions about Venezuela : NPR
President Trump walks on the South Lawn after landing at the White House on Jan. 4, 2026. Trump returned to Washington from his winter break at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., one day after U.S. forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a raid on his compound in the […]
Amid fraud claims, HHS reveals changes to child care funding : NPR
Children sleep during nap time at Minnesota Child Care in Minneapolis on Dec. 30. Renee Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Renee Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it would rescind a series of Biden-era rules […]
After Maduro was captured, someone made $400,000 on Polymarket : NPR
A supporter of ousted Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro carry his portrait during a rally outside the National Assembly in Caracas on Jan. 5, 2026. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images For one prediction market trader, the Trump administration’s weekend capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was a […]
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, dies at 96 : NPR
Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank and a Holocaust survivor, attends a March 2019 news conference in Newport Beach, Calif. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption toggle caption Jae C. Hong/AP LONDON — Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has […]
7 takeaways from Trump’s action in Venezuela : NPR
President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images It would be hard to blame someone […]