Viktor Orban is in his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of Hungary. In that time, he has dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country's media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in him and his Fidesz party.
NPR's Rob Schmitz looks at how Orban's step-by-step dismantling of Hungary's democracy has become a point of fascination for political scientists around the world, including those advising the Trump administration.
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Up First from NPR - The Girls Who Were Sent Away
Before Roe v. Wade, when a young, unmarried girl got pregnant, she was often sent away – to a place called a maternity home. There, she would give birth in secret, surrender her baby, and return to her life as if nothing had happened. That shadowed history is the setting of Grady Hendrix's latest horror novel, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. Today on The Sunday Story from Up First, Ayesha Rascoe talks with Hendrix about the truth that inspired his timely fiction — and what happens when people with little choice, discover a new kind of power.
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Up First from NPR - Supreme Court Blocks Deportations; Imprisonment in El Salvador; US-Iran Nuclear Talks
The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans. Also, President Trump this week raised the possibility of sending US citizens convicted of crimes to prison in El Salvador. And we'll hear the latest on the second round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran.
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1A - The News Roundup For April 18, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the big name in the news this week as he remains imprisoned in El Salvador. A U.S. District judge chastised the Department of Justice for not following her order to facilitate his release.
Meanwhile, America's top diplomat says time is running out for US-led talks to find a path of peace in Ukraine.
Those remarks from Paris follow Russian airstrikes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 people in Sumy, Ukraine, mid-morning on Palm Sunday. It's the deadliest attack in the country's invasion this year.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his country's troops will not leave established buffer zones in Gaza after the war ends.
And this week, the rebel group fighting the Sudanese army for power announced that it has formed its own government.
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Meanwhile, America's top diplomat says time is running out for US-led talks to find a path of peace in Ukraine.
Those remarks from Paris follow Russian airstrikes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 people in Sumy, Ukraine, mid-morning on Palm Sunday. It's the deadliest attack in the country's invasion this year.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his country's troops will not leave established buffer zones in Gaza after the war ends.
And this week, the rebel group fighting the Sudanese army for power announced that it has formed its own government.
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Consider This from NPR - Behind two high-profile deportation cases, a legal crisis grows
This week, two federal judges handling separate immigration cases escalated their attempts to get the Trump administration to comply with court orders.
One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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Consider This from NPR - Behind two high-profile deportation cases, a legal crisis grows
This week, two federal judges handling separate immigration cases escalated their attempts to get the Trump administration to comply with court orders.
One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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Consider This from NPR - Behind two high-profile deportation cases, a legal crisis grows
This week, two federal judges handling separate immigration cases escalated their attempts to get the Trump administration to comply with court orders.
One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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One case involves President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the 18th-century wartime law, to deport migrants without due process.
The other is about the wrongful deportation, also without due process, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the government's refusal to bring him back to the U.S.
The growing conflicts point to a potential constitutional crisis, where the president openly defies the country's highest court — or at least, as one legal scholar maintains, a crisis at the Supreme Court.
Our guest is University of Virginia professor Amanda Frost, who specializes in immigration and citizenship law.
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State of the World from NPR - Refugees in Limbo as U.S. Halts a Resettlement Program.
In Kenya, generations of mostly Somalians have lived in one of the world's largest refugee camps for over thirty years. Many hoped to resettle in places such as the U.S., which has paused a key admissions program. And a visit to China's oldest trade fair, where traders are plotting their next move after U.S. tariffs and a darkened economic forecast.
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Planet Money - How much for that egg
Recently, one of our NPR colleagues wrote a message to all of NPR saying he had extra eggs to sell for cheap, but needed a fair way to distribute them during a shortage. What is Planet Money here for if not to get OVERLY involved in this kind of situation?
Our colleague didn't want to charge more than $5, so we couldn't just auction the eggs off. A lottery? Too boring, he said.
Okay! A very Planet Money puzzle to solve.
Today on the show, we go in search of novel systems to help our colleague decide who gets his scarce resource: cheap, farm-fresh eggs. We steal from the world of new product development to try and secretly test for egg love, and we discover a pricing method used in development economics that may be America's next great gameshow.
This episode of Planet Money was produced by Emma Peaslee and it was edited by Marianne McCune. It was fact checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
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Our colleague didn't want to charge more than $5, so we couldn't just auction the eggs off. A lottery? Too boring, he said.
Okay! A very Planet Money puzzle to solve.
Today on the show, we go in search of novel systems to help our colleague decide who gets his scarce resource: cheap, farm-fresh eggs. We steal from the world of new product development to try and secretly test for egg love, and we discover a pricing method used in development economics that may be America's next great gameshow.
This episode of Planet Money was produced by Emma Peaslee and it was edited by Marianne McCune. It was fact checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Jimmy Keeley. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter.
Listen free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts.
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Up First from NPR - US Senator Visits Abrego Garcia, Florida State University Shooting, Fed Independence
A US Senator from Maryland met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man illegally deported by the Trump administration — in El Salvador. Two people were killed and six wounded in a shooting on the campus of Florida State University, and economists say it could backfire if President Trump pressures the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Willem Marx, Susanna Capelouto, Rafael Nam, Janaya Williams and Mohamad ElBardicy.
It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Damian Herring. Our technical director is Zac Coleman. And our Executive Producer is Jay Shaylor.
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