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Why Bill Gates is giving away his money faster

502

Looking for clues from Pope Leo XIV's sermons

503

Why covering the Vatican is a really tough reporting assignment

504

After two years of civil war, Sudan's capital is a shell of its former self

505

This American pope

506

America's air traffic control problem

507

For LGBTQ Catholics, a lot depends on the next Pope

508

Trump's spending cuts are hitting communities of his supporters

509

Prelude to a conclave: understanding the selection process of a new pope

510

Despite talk of peace, Ukraine is still under a barrage of deadly attacks

511

A legal architect of Guantanamo questions Trump's El Salvador plan

512

Ford CEO does the math on Trump's auto tariffs

513

Trumps first 100 days have pushed the limits of presidential power to new levels

514

Trump uses government powers to target perceived enemies

515

A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.'s research initiative

516

How Canada's national election has been largely shaped by Donald Trump

517

How a punishing two years shaped Pope Francis

518

Federal agencies are reeling from Trump administration cuts to government

519

Americans are protesting the Trump administration. Do they work?

520

Israel's changing story of an attack on rescue workers

521

Maintaining stability is key to the economy. That's getting harder.

522

Pope Francis I has died. What happens now?

523

Dismantling Democracy: Lessons from Hungary's Viktor Orban

524

Behind two high-profile deportation cases, a legal crisis grows

525

Raising kids is costly; Tariffs will make it even more expensive

526

Can the U.S. banish its citizens?

527

Did DOGE take sensitive labor data?

528

Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized'

529

Why one deportation case has legal scholars afraid for even U.S. citizens

530

Big law in Trump's crosshairs

531

How Trump's immigration policy changes who gets arrested and detained

532

Drowning in tariffs, American businesses try to stay afloat

533

Tariffs will boost prices a lot — here's how much

534

What will it take to get measles under control?

535

They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?

536

How Deportations Work

537

The video game industry at a crossroads

538

A devastating earthquake brings more uncertainty to Myanmar

539

Trump takes aim at trade deficits. Are they actually bad?

540

Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?

541

Trump is betting the economy on his tariff theory

542

South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story

543

AI and the Environment

544

Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths

545

Why did Israel restart the war? One answer: Bezalel Smotrich.

546

The Southeastern U.S. faces a future with more wildfires

547

Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before

548

The fallout from the Signal breach begins

549

Trump targets Big Law, and Big Law appears intimidated

550

How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term

551

On the road in Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle

552

The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine

553

Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so

554

Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power

555

Measles is spreading. Are you safe?

556

Is Trump defying the courts?

557

Never give up - one Gaza boy's story of trying to survive in Gaza

558

Trump says the economy is in 'transition.' What comes after?

559

Over a dozen lawsuits to stop DOGE data access are betting on a 1974 law

560

The Trump administration's attacks on oversight of executive power

561

Fentanyl deaths are plunging, but it's just the first step

562

Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise

563

Riding 'La Bestia' with migrants in Mexico

564

Marco Rubio pivots to America First diplomacy

565

When it comes to the economy, it's all about uncertainty

566

Can democrats find their way out of the wilderness?

567

How Trump's foreign policy is reshaping the world order

568

When it comes to harassment, are federal judges above the law?

569

The political power of the pope

570

An immigration lawyer on Trump's first month

571

Former DOGE employee: work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines'

572

Is there a deal to end Russia's war with Ukraine?

573

The view from Greenland: 'We don't want to be Americans'

574

Are Trump's military picks based on merit or loyalty?

575

Trump's tariffs and rhetoric strain historic Windsor-Detroit friendship

576

What happens if the Education Department is abolished?

577

The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia

578

Is the U.S. headed for autocracy?

579

Will New York's mayor survive widening scandal?

580

Why are Israel's deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?

581

After weeks of chaos, the future is uncertain for thousands of federal workers

582

Bonus Episode: The Aphasia Choir

583

Ousted Kennedy Center president says artists must feel "welcome and safe"

584

In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life

585

Trump says the U.S. will 'own' Gaza — what that could mean for the Middle East

586

Are we in a constitutional crisis?

587

What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?

588

Trump 2.0 or Project 2025?

589

Bonus Episode: "Margery," the medieval memoirist

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Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?

591

The wider impact of DEI changes under the Trump administration

592

Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation

593

What does Elon Musk get out of remaking the government?

594

The people and the waterway at the center of the Panama Canal

595

Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?

596

A pastor's sermons on social justice causes conflict among congregation

597

Investigators look for answers in worst U.S. airline crash in two decades

598

What would RFK Jr. mean to HHS?

599

Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett

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Can Susie Wiles keep Trump on track?