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President Donald Trump dismissed Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday in a single sentence. “Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” the president told POLITICO in a 15-minute telephone interview, when asked what he thought of the South Bend, Ind., mayor. Neuman’s freckled, gap-toothed face and oversized ears have for decades […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For nearly 90 minutes on a sweat-soaked stage in South Carolina on Friday night, it was almost as if Joe Biden had put the uproar surrounding his comments about segregationists behind him. Speaking at a gathering of 21 presidential candidates here, the former vice president did not mention the controversy from the […]

Four days after their prime-time showdown, the tit-for-tat between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is still going strong. Some Harris allies said Monday they saw sexism and desperation in the backlash from the former vice president’s camp. They were outraged after an ally of Biden suggested she had allowed her ambition to get the best […]

President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to soften the economic blow of his trade battle with China, doling out billions of dollars in farmer bailouts and telling Americans that the Chinese are paying the tariffs he’s slapped on U.S. importers. It’ll be a tough trick to execute, especially if Trump can’t cut a […]

Make It Scream, Make It Burn Essays by Leslie Jamison Hardcover, 257 pages | purchase Buy Featured Book Title Make It Scream, Make It Burn Subtitle Essays Author Leslie Jamison Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? In her new book of essays, Leslie Jamison reminds us more than once that the Roman playwright Terence’s […]

Click:block production machine Calling it “an assault on the honor of this country,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said “there is no question” that Donald Trump faked an injury to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. “There is no question, I think, to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to […]

A federal appeals court has granted President Trump a temporary stay of decision, saying he does not have to turn over eight years of tax records for a New York state criminal probe. Updated at 10:59 a.m. ET A federal appeals court has granted President Trump a temporary stay of decision, and he will not […]

Wildhood The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers Hardcover, 354 pages | purchase Buy Featured Book Title Wildhood Subtitle The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals Author Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? […]

Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal was shot and killed after making a traffic stop on Friday near Houston. The suspected gunman was charged with capital murder in the slaying. A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Friday afternoon in the Houston suburbs during a routine traffic stop. Sandeep Dhaliwal was the first observant Sikh […]

Speedboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard circle the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero on Sunday, July 21 in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, after it was seized in the Strait of Hormuz two days earlier. A British oil tanker detained by Iran will soon be released, according to an Iranian maritime official. The tanker, the […]