American and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia for talks on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. The Trump administration has started making broad cuts to federal health agencies. Days after the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced their resignations.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - What the cluck is happening with egg prices?
We visit a local egg farm and talk to an industry analyst to get to the bottom of why the prices of eggs are soaring so quickly and when they might come back to earth.
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Egg Prices: States Cry Foul
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Go ask ALICE about grocery prices
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Life Hacks for a Little Alien’ follows a lonely girl’s pursuit of an ancient tome
In Life Hacks for a Little Alien, both the narrator and protagonist are unnamed. The debut novel from Alice Franklin is written from a second-person perspective and follows a little girl who experiences the world differently. Little Alien is neurodivergent, but undiagnosed, and often finds that people don't understand her. When she encounters an ancient text written in an unknown language, she sees parallels between its indecipherability and her own experiences. In today's episode, Franklin speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the way she plays with language in her story, her own diagnosis journey, and our collective definition of normalcy.
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Short Wave - When AI Cannibalizes Its Data
Asked ChatGPT anything lately? Talked with a customer service chatbot? Read the results of Google's "AI Overviews" summary feature? If you've used the Internet lately, chances are, you've consumed content created by a large language model. These models, like DeepSeek-R1 or OpenAI's ChatGPT, are kind of like the predictive text feature in your phone on steroids. In order for them to "learn" how to write, the models are trained on millions of examples of human-written text. Thanks in part to these same large language models, a lot of content on the Internet today is written by generative AI. That means that AI models trained nowadays may be consuming their own synthetic content ... and suffering the consequences.
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Consider This from NPR - Why are Israel’s deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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Consider This from NPR - Why are Israel’s deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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Consider This from NPR - Why are Israel’s deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages – and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
NPR's Jerome Socolovsky looks into why Israel has long accepted lopsided deals to bring back abducted citizens.
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State of the World from NPR - Peace Talks with Russia; Mexican Street Sweeper Becomes a Star
Members of the Trump Administration will meet with counterparts from Russia this week to discuss a possible peace deal with Ukraine. Notably, the Ukrainians are absent from these talks. Other European nations are also not invited, even though as a whole Europe gives Ukraine more aid money than the United States. We get updates from three NPR reporters covering various parts of the story.
And we meet a street sweeper in Mexico with a golden voice who became an overnight pop star.
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And we meet a street sweeper in Mexico with a golden voice who became an overnight pop star.
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1A - The Story Behind Executive Orders
We've heard about a lot of them the last few weeks.
They're one powerful tool in a commander-in-chief's arsenal to enact their agenda.
Donald Trump has made heavy use of the executive order in the past few weeks, but so have his predecessors. Both Joe Biden and Barack Obama issued many Executive Orders during their times in office.
We discuss the practice and boundaries of Executive Orders.
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They're one powerful tool in a commander-in-chief's arsenal to enact their agenda.
Donald Trump has made heavy use of the executive order in the past few weeks, but so have his predecessors. Both Joe Biden and Barack Obama issued many Executive Orders during their times in office.
We discuss the practice and boundaries of Executive Orders.
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Up First from NPR - Paris Emergency Summit, Marco Rubio in the Middle East, Trump’s First Month
European leaders meet in Paris to discuss an emerging transatlantic chasm over security and the war in Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the Middle East amplifying President Trump's vision for Gaza. And a review of Trump's first four weeks reshaping the U.S. government.
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