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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reflects on FAFSA rollout, debt forgiveness
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona talks with NPR's Juana Summers about what went wrong and what went right in his department during the Biden administration.
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Biden extends temporary protection for migrants of Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine
People from Venezuela, El Salvador and Honduras has had Temporary Protected Status, TPS, for the longest time. With the Trump administration promising to end TPS, Central Americans are bracing for the possibility of being deported.
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TikTok will ask the Supreme Court to strike down a law that could ban the app in days
TikTok will be asking the Supreme Court to strike down a law that could ban the app in a matter of days. The Justice Department says the law should be upheld, since it considers China a national security threat. TikTok's parent company is based in Beijing. The wild card is President-elect Donald Trump, who has asked the high court to not rule to allow him to cut a deal that would save the service.
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The prison population is going up as prisons struggle with staffing and overpopulation
The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.
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Winter Storm Cora has been dumping snow in the South
Southern States not used to a lot of snow are dealing with winter storm Cora which is causing cancellations, power outages and traffic snarls.
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Winds have gone down: The latest on the fires in L.A.
Winds have diminished somewhat in the Los Angeles area, but big fires are ongoing -- even as tens of thousands are starting their recovery journeys.
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A Wisconsin-based surfer's quest to create a more eco-friendly board
The Great Lakes don't readily evoke images of surfing and surfboard-making, but a surfer in Wisconsin is on an eco-friendly mission to change that.
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This week in science: hula hoop science, vaccine longevity and 2025 space missions
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jessica Yung and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the physics of hula hooping, why some vaccines last longer than others, and a few moon launches to watch for in 2025.
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What are biodiversity credits — and could have a meaningful impact?
Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species.
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FEMA fire administrator talks response and what recovery looks like for L.A. residents
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Lori- Moore-Merrell, the Fire Administrator for FEMA, about fighting -- and plans to rebuild after -- the fires in Los Angeles.
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Evacuation lessons to be learned from the L.A. fires
Residents feeling the Palisades Fire abandoned their cars in gridlock traffic as the wildfire approached. Evacuation planning is central to saving lives in wildfires, but many communities are behind.
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A baby is born at sea on an overcrowded migrant boat
a baby girl, born at sea on an overcrowded rubber dinghy, has been rescued with her mother.