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  • What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters

    What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters
    May 30 2025
    The Trump administration has thrown so many curveballs at colleges and universities, it can be hard to keep track. But there's logic behind the many efforts, from cutting research grants to detaining international students involved in activism.

    NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and education correspondent Elissa Nadworny about what's at stake in the federal government's multi-pronged assault on higher education and what the administration hopes to accomplish.

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    11 mins
  • The CDC changed its COVID vaccine guidance. What does that mean for you?

    The CDC changed its COVID vaccine guidance. What does that mean for you?
    May 29 2025
    When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new COVID recommendations this week, it raised questions among clinicians and patients:

    Will those shots still be available to people who want them — and will insurance cover it?

    NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines for healthy children and pregnant women — and whether they could make it more difficult for these patients to get shots if they want them.

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    8 mins
  • Children of ISIS fighter find new life in Minnesota

    Children of ISIS fighter find new life in Minnesota
    May 28 2025
    When ISIS was at its height, its ranks included several hundred Americans. They were often young men radicalized online by savvy marketing that promised free housing and the chance to meet a wife.

    When the Islamic State collapsed, some of them ended up in huge detention camps in Syria, and the U.S. has been trying to bring them home.

    NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports on one American family coping with the aftermath of the child they lost, and the children they found.

    What happened to the families of the Americans who joined ISIS? Not just the families they left behind in the U.S., but the ones they formed overseas?

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    22 mins
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