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Parkland survivor says gun violence always leaves communities 'broken'

6:05pm May 25, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Jaclyn Corin, Parkland shooting survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives, about her response to the Uvalde attack and how living through Parkland has shaped her.

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'Will Be Wild' explores how we got to the many system failures of Jan. 6

5:14pm May 25, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz about Will Be Wild, their new podcast diving deep into how the Jan. 6 insurrection happened.

A man walks past a damaged building after a strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Wednesday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 25)

4:55pm May 25, 2022

by NPR Staff

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It's unclear whether the U.S. and Iran will return to the 2015 nuclear deal

4:49pm May 25, 2022

by Michele Kelemen

The Biden administration came to office promising to revive a nuclear deal with Iran, but for months officials have said time is running out. The top negotiator is briefing Congress on the stalemate.

Soon after the Uvalde shooting, conspiracy theories took off among the far right

4:18pm May 25, 2022

by Odette Yousef

Rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories were rampant on right-wing social media before verifiable information came out about the gunman who took at least 21 lives at a Texas elementary school.

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A TV screen shows a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

North Korea launches three missiles into the sea, including suspected ICBM

6:11am May 25, 2022

by The Associated Press

North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, hours after President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to Asia.

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San Antonio journalist shares the latest shooting news out of Uvalde, Texas

7:45pm May 24, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rebecca Salinas, a digital journalist at K-SAT TV, about the latest from the Uvalde school shooting in Texas.

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The shooting in Uvalde conjures memories of Sandy Hook school shooting

7:44pm May 24, 2022

by Cory Turner

On Tuesday afternoon, a gunman walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 15 people. At a press conference, Gov. Greg Abbot said the suspected shooter is dead.

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14 students and a teacher are dead after shooting in an elementary school in Texas

7:43pm May 24, 2022

by Brian Kirkpatrick, Texas Public Radio

Fourteen children and a teacher are dead, according to the governor of Texas, after a shooting at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde earlier today.

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Prosecutors allege that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli is a white supremacist who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 intent on causing a second "civil war." His defense attorney contends that Hale-Cusanelli frequently makes "bombastic" statements and uses

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Capitol riot trial of former Army reservist and alleged 'Nazi sympathizer' begins

7:01pm May 24, 2022

by Tom Dreisbach

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli is the latest defendant to face trial for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. Federal prosecutors say he was intent on inciting a second "civil war."