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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Tim Alberta of The Atlantic about the split in the Republican Party as former president Donald Trump continues to exercise his influence over it.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on an issue that courts have not questioned in more than a century: birthright citizenship. NPR's Ari Shapiro discusses the case with law professor Amanda Frost.

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. It's "like they have a superpower," says one of the researchers.

President Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal government are also threatening a key banking watchdog.

As President Trump carries out his "flood the zone" strategy, Democrats in Congress are confronting the constraints of life in the minority and the limited options they have to slow down his agenda.

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon, amid Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history's first American pope on the road.

In late-night calls, Ofer Bronchtein, a French-Israeli activist, persuaded the French president to draft his historic plan to recognize a Palestinian state.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant look back on the year in sports, from the the rise of sports gambling to the most momentous games of 2025.

For a night with relatively few surprises but some very enjoyable winners, it was a solid show that honored an awful lot of good movies, and movies that drew significant audiences.

Melissa Block speaks with Dan Friedman, who covers Washington for the New York Daily News, about how a question he asked of a source on Capitol Hill became the centerpiece for an explosive story spread by conservative media. Friedman says that in asking whether Chuck Hagel, who's been nominated to be secretary of defense, had received speaking fees from controversial groups, he made up the name "Friends of Hamas" as a farcical example. That name later surfaced on Breitbart.com, despite the fact that the group does not exist.