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In the Pacific Northwest, tiny, old fire trucks from Japan have a big following

4:39pm May 26, 2025

Kei trucks are tiny trucks shipped from Japan. In the last 10 years, these trucks and vans have become more popular on American farms and cities as utility vehicles.

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How Trump's effort to move a federal office out of D.C. went in his 1st term

4:38pm May 26, 2025

President Trump set an April 14 deadline for federal agency reorganization plans, suggesting relocating offices out of D.C. to save money. But an agency move to Colorado in Trump's first term failed.

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How federal cuts are affecting school lunches at one Louisiana school

4:26pm May 26, 2025

A program that brings farm fresh foods to schools in Louisiana was cut by the Trump administration. Now some local lawmakers are pushing to get it back.

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Colorado's rape kit backlog is a barrier to investigations and arrests

4:26pm May 26, 2025

A nationwide backlog in rape kit testing was largely solved in 2018. But Colorado has fallen behind again due to a corrupt investigator. Progress to catch up will be slow.

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Canada welcomes King Charles against a backdrop of tensions with Trump

2:16pm May 26, 2025

The king's visit is being seen in Canada as an opportunity for the nation to bolster its sovereignty amid threats by President Trump to turn the United States' northern neighbor into the 51^st state.

Marcel Ophuls believed subjectivity was key to filmmaking and saw documentaries as an antidote to the news. He's pictured above on May 5, 1987.

Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict and atrocities, dies at 97

12:50pm May 26, 2025

"There's a relationship between attention span and morality," Ophuls said. The filmmaker commanded his audience's attention in four-plus-hour documentaries like The Sorrow and The Pity and Hôtel Terminus.

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Trump calls Putin 'absolutely crazy' following Russia's latest barrage on Ukraine

12:23pm May 26, 2025

Trump's remarks were a rare rebuke of the Russian president and followed a storm of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Sunday evening.

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Harvard's Steven Levitsky says Trump administration acts as authoritarian government

7:03am May 26, 2025

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Steven Levitsky is director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies at Harvard and researches authoritarian governments. He talks with NPR about Trump's attacks on universities.

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5 years after anti-police protests, initiatives for officer mental health have traction

7:00am May 26, 2025

Efforts to improve officers' mental health have grown over the past five years. They were sparked in part by the death of George Floyd, which prompted a wave of anti- police protests.

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NPR listeners share their memories of loved ones who died serving in the military

6:58am May 26, 2025

On this Memorial Day, NPR Morning Edition listeners share memories of loved ones who died while serving in the military.

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