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After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi(npr.org)

49 points by momentmaker 20 days ago | 39 comments

NPR report on a man banned from sports betting sites after bankruptcy who turned to the prediction market Kalshi to keep gambling.

People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms(npr.org)

24 points by geox 21 days ago | 25 comments

NPR Weekend Edition Sunday story on people using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to help decide how to vote in the 2026 US midterm elections.

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts(npr.org)

155 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | 72 comments

NPR Morning Edition segment on how U.S. sanctions affect ICC judge Kimberly Prost personally and what they mean for international courts.

Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?(npr.org)

38 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 26 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday(npr.org)

61 points by topspin 1 month ago | 8 comments

Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug(npr.org)

79 points by brandonb 2 months ago | 57 comments

Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb(npr.org)

21 points by speckx 2 months ago | 5 comments

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices(npr.org)

44 points by speckx 2 months ago | 42 comments

Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'(npr.org)

49 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 14 comments

US DOT deleting bike lane references(npr.org)

50 points by aendruk 3 months ago | 28 comments

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir(npr.org)

65 points by Jimmc414 3 months ago | 7 comments

Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?(npr.org)

23 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 33 comments

Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid(npr.org)

150 points by nradov 3 months ago | 313 comments

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure(npr.org)

52 points by marojejian 3 months ago | 58 comments

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved(npr.org)

70 points by mikhael 4 months ago | 25 comments

ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light(npr.org)

100 points by Jimmc414 4 months ago | 22 comments

ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts(npr.org)

12 points by ck2 5 months ago | 2 comments

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets(npr.org)

707 points by ortusdux 5 months ago | 218 comments

NPR news article reporting that Minnesota has become the first U.S. state to ban prediction markets.

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address(npr.org)

217 points by ilamont 5 months ago | 98 comments

Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling(npr.org)

18 points by ceejayoz 6 months ago | 5 comments

When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems(npr.org)

157 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | 105 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi Out at DOJ(npr.org)

26 points by JumpCrisscross 6 months ago | 1 comments

U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'(npr.org)

200 points by Jimmc414 6 months ago | 72 comments

Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk(npr.org)

219 points by nuke-web3 7 months ago | 71 comments

How the Iran war threatens global food supply(npr.org)

11 points by kaycebasques 7 months ago | 0 comments

Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)(npr.org)

41 points by upofadown 7 months ago | 22 comments

NASA targets Artemis II crewed moon mission for April 1 launch(npr.org)

54 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 29 comments

19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack(npr.org)

46 points by ynac 7 months ago | 16 comments

How the Federal Government Is Painting Immigrants as Criminals on Social Media(npr.org)

19 points by TigerUniversity 7 months ago | 2 comments

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule(npr.org)

354 points by andsoitis 7 months ago | 585 comments

NPR obituary and news report stating Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike, ending his 36-year rule.

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems(npr.org)

226 points by pkress2 8 months ago | 187 comments

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care(npr.org)

38 points by toomuchtodo 8 months ago | 32 comments

Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative(npr.org)

34 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 38 comments

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow(npr.org)

142 points by NaOH 9 months ago | 53 comments

The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says(npr.org)

68 points by backpackerBMW 9 months ago | 50 comments

European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security(npr.org)

45 points by geox 9 months ago | 36 comments

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart(npr.org)

148 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 93 comments

DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis(npr.org)

62 points by mickle00 9 months ago | 10 comments

2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism(npr.org)

6 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 2 comments

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise(npr.org)

295 points by geox 10 months ago | 447 comments

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?(npr.org)

39 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 29 comments

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'(npr.org)

179 points by seattle_spring 10 months ago | 114 comments

'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant doctors(npr.org)

3 points by nis0s 11 months ago | 0 comments

'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40(npr.org)

309 points by mooreds 11 months ago | 112 comments

Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame(npr.org)

38 points by ilamont 11 months ago | 39 comments

Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment(npr.org)

102 points by toomanyrichies 11 months ago | 82 comments

Supreme Court temporarily blocks full SNAP benefits even as they'd started to(npr.org)

8 points by manveerc 11 months ago | 0 comments

Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke(npr.org)

15 points by geox 11 months ago | 3 comments

Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties(npr.org)

528 points by ilamont 1 year ago | 228 comments

NPR article by David Folkenflik reporting that Washington Post editorials have omitted disclosure of owner Jeff Bezos' financial ties to the subjects they cover.

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms(npr.org)

110 points by sans_souse 1 year ago | 33 comments

A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal(npr.org)

132 points by 8ig8 1 year ago | 72 comments

We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought(npr.org)

78 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 20 comments

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass(npr.org)

10 points by nobody9999 1 year ago | 0 comments

California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities(npr.org)

11 points by 1659447091 1 year ago | 1 comments

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight(npr.org)

26 points by manveerc 1 year ago | 13 comments

Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies and your employer(npr.org)

23 points by manveerc 1 year ago | 27 comments

What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood(npr.org)

45 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 25 comments

The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com(npr.org)

25 points by danso 1 year ago | 35 comments

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report(npr.org)

11 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 0 comments

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers(npr.org)

41 points by blueridge 1 year ago | 3 comments

US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security(npr.org)

57 points by hvb2 1 year ago | 38 comments

From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year(npr.org)

42 points by laurex 1 year ago | 12 comments

Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations(npr.org)

130 points by nsedlet 1 year ago | 30 comments

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation(npr.org)

267 points by geox 1 year ago | 278 comments

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use(npr.org)

112 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 41 comments

Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds(npr.org)

174 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 206 comments

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year(npr.org)

73 points by geox 1 year ago | 49 comments

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation(npr.org)

188 points by smollett 1 year ago | 27 comments

Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)(npr.org)

337 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 162 comments

NPR Goats and Soda article and radio segment on how lead chromate pigment added to turmeric was traced as a cause of lead poisoning from Bangladesh to New York.

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications(npr.org)

50 points by BeetleB 1 year ago | 54 comments

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order(npr.org)

5 points by donsupreme 1 year ago | 1 comments

Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees(npr.org)

129 points by geox 1 year ago | 98 comments

Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia(npr.org)

198 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 206 comments

Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention(npr.org)

33 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 5 comments

Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died(npr.org)

71 points by danso 1 year ago | 32 comments

Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is released from detention(npr.org)

19 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers(npr.org)

10 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 1 comments

New analysis casts doubt on 'biosignatures' found on planet K2-18B(npr.org)

9 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 0 comments

What happens at the end of 'Trading Places'? (2013)(npr.org)

59 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 16 comments

'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised(npr.org)

9 points by rl3 1 year ago | 0 comments

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data(npr.org)

963 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 433 comments

NPR article on a whistleblower disclosure alleging DOGE staff may have taken sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board.

Federal judge orders USDA to unfreeze funds to Maine(npr.org)

10 points by pmags 1 year ago | 0 comments

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents(npr.org)

23 points by Jtsummers 1 year ago | 3 comments

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave(npr.org)

47 points by Teever 1 year ago | 14 comments

'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks(npr.org)

29 points by marban 1 year ago | 15 comments

Experts warn about the 'crumbling infrastructure' of federal government data(npr.org)

86 points by xnx 1 year ago | 23 comments

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died(npr.org)

220 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 69 comments

USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why(npr.org)

13 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 0 comments

A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories(npr.org)

4 points by js2 1 year ago | 0 comments

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit(npr.org)

211 points by layer8 1 year ago | 131 comments

Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week(npr.org)

4 points by pizza 1 year ago | 0 comments

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5B in medical research funds(npr.org)

21 points by geox 1 year ago | 1 comments

CDC terminates flu vaccine promotion campaign(npr.org)

59 points by throw0101d 1 year ago | 33 comments

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce(npr.org)

51 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 37 comments

Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators(npr.org)

85 points by seo-speedwagon 1 year ago | 60 comments

Doubts remain over reliability of Texas power grid(npr.org)

54 points by geox 1 year ago | 42 comments

DOGE boasts about billions in canceled federal contracts – but the data is murky(npr.org)

7 points by lareading 1 year ago | 2 comments

Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men for Some Jobs (2019)(npr.org)

58 points by wslh 1 year ago | 12 comments

X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott(npr.org)

11 points by unsnap_biceps 1 year ago | 8 comments

How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer(npr.org)

27 points by segasaturn 1 year ago | 25 comments

Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center(npr.org)

8 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 0 comments

The U.S. Government Tried Replacing Migrant Farmworkers with Teenagers (2018)(npr.org)

43 points by notamy 1 year ago | 31 comments

Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes(npr.org)

130 points by geox 1 year ago | 83 comments

U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage(npr.org)

86 points by geox 1 year ago | 105 comments

One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch(npr.org)

298 points by geox 1 year ago | 207 comments

Always go to the funeral (2005)(npr.org)

462 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 268 comments

A 2005 NPR "This I Believe" essay by Deirdre Sullivan about her father's lesson to always attend funerals, aired on All Things Considered.

McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis(npr.org)

328 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 207 comments

NPR news article reporting that McKinsey & Company will pay $650 million to resolve a federal case over its role advising Purdue Pharma in the opioid crisis.

Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars(npr.org)

36 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 26 comments

Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit(npr.org)

243 points by airstrike 1 year ago | 319 comments

Science Fiction Writer Ted Chiang Wins Pen/Malamud Prize(npr.org)

30 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 4 comments

Is 'Toxic Fashion' making us sick? A look at the chemicals lurking in our clothe (2023)(npr.org)

24 points by LordNibbler 1 year ago | 5 comments

A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream machines(npr.org)

5 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 1 comments

200k subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement(npr.org)

57 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 35 comments

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat(npr.org)

136 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 85 comments

U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed(npr.org)

40 points by marban 2 years ago | 26 comments

Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say(npr.org)

57 points by BostonFern 2 years ago | 27 comments

One possible housing crisis solution? Public housing for all income levels(npr.org)

23 points by thehoff 2 years ago | 31 comments

The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people(npr.org)

59 points by harambae 2 years ago | 48 comments

'That's a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests(npr.org)

12 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 0 comments

An e-waste dumping ground(npr.org)

376 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 258 comments

NPR Goats and Soda photo story about a vast e-waste dumping ground in Ghana and the people who make a living salvaging electronics there.