Joanna Kakissis

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.

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CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears Staff at the key cybersecurity agency were initially excluded from government efforts to leave their jobs, but then on Wednesday they were given deferred resignation offers with just hours to decide.

Also, CISA staffers I see you...know you've been having a rough go of it since DOGE came on the scene, from disinfo work to the Cyber Safety Review Board:

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Merci, France! Already 5 screenings of Kherson:Human Safari (Paris, Grenoble, Nantes, Lyon, and counting)

So thankful for @lemonde.fr coverage of the Kherson film premiere-great photos by Virginie Nguyen Hoang.
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Today, Paris. Tomorrow, Lyon.

Massive thanks to
@kanarifella.bsky.social
-the best!

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Between the Western Colorado towns of Whitewater and Gateway, a geological marvel — and mystery Unaweep Canyon is said to be the only canyon in the world where water flows out of both ends.

Between the Western Colorado towns of Whitewater and Gateway, a geological marvel — and mystery www.cpr.org/2025/10/06/u...

Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction. Inside the Ojibwe’s fight to preserve a plant and the extraordinary traditions around it in northern Wisconsin.

The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss to be editor in chief of CBS News as Skydance set to annnouccne acquisition of Free Press

What does it mean for CBS? My story and chat with Steve Inskeep on NPR's Morning Edition

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After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

Doing almost anything is better with friends, research finds You might be leaving some happiness on the table by doing your everyday activities all by yourself.

A new study has found that across more than 80 different types of activities — from getting gas to reading to managing finances — people reported being happier doing almost anything with other people than doing it alone.

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal. I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

Students rally at the Colorado Capitol after Evergreen High shooting High school students from across Denver held a rally on the Capitol steps Wednesday in the wake of the state's latest high school shooting.

ICYMI: Students rally at the Colorado Capitol after Evergreen High shooting www.cpr.org/2025/09/18/c...

Slice of old pizza on top of dumplings in a frying pan

I try not to food shame but my father has gone too far this time with his leftover-based lunch dish 😂

I've said this take before, but All the President's Men is the most accurate journalism movie in large part because there are long stretches where no good source will talk to them and it's not clear they're going to get the story even if they stay really dogged at it and it's really boring to watch

one of the greatest to ever do it, and incorrectly gave the impression that journalists are hot

Yaroslav Bazylevych posted a very beautiful and touching tribute to his youngest daughter Emilia murdered by the russian missile last year along with her mom and two sisters. Today, the girl would've turned eight.

Never forgive, never forget.

A record number of Congressional lawmakers aren't running for reelection in 2026. Here's the list NPR is tracking the record number of lawmakers in Congress who have already announced they don't plan to run for reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms.

NPR is tracking the record number of Congressional lawmakers who have announced they do not plan to run for reelection to their current seats in 2026.

That number currently stands at 10 senators and 27 House members.

Stephen Colbert holds an Emmy award and speaks into a microphone. Photo credit: Valerie Macon/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images.

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which CBS canceled over the summer, won the Emmy for best talk show for the first time. It was the second of two standing ovations that Colbert received at the ceremony. nyti.ms/4n7hh8W

Greetings from a peaceful woodland near the River Thames west of London Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

“If I'd had my microphone with me, you'd hear the bright coloratura of willow warblers and chiffchaffs, the resonant mezzo counterpoint of blackbirds, the soft rustling of leaves in the breeze and the odd jumbo coming in to land at Heathrow” ❤️ @ejnicholson.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/09/10/g...

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

"By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill a group of people aboard what he said was a drug-smuggling boat, President Trump used the military in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to specialists in the laws of war and executive power." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Ira Glass to pubmedia: ‘The time of invention does not need to be over’ It's an “enormously energizing moment to be on the radio and doing journalism,” Glass told attendees at the Public Media Content Conference.

Thank you dearly to @thisamericanlife.org's Ira Glass for the shout-out on my reporting on DOGE accessing sensitive labor data.

I agree, "the time of invention" in public media "does not need to be over." Maybe the new era of public media is just beginning.

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White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power The administration is setting up clash with Capitol Hill over its use of the "pocket rescission."

White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power politi.co/47ffUQr via @politico.com

After Katrina, a Mississippi businessman invests in a restaurant and in a community NPR's Michel Martin speaks with business owner Ron Ladner about the community he invested in after Hurricane Katrina devasted the town of Pass Christian, on the Mississippi waterfront.

New Orleans was hardest hit by Katrina but not the only place . Here's a story from Mississippi about a businessman who lost his home but found a new calling

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NAACP asks court to block new Texas congressional map The nation’s largest civil rights organization argues the newly redrawn boundary lines, which the Texas state legislature voted to adopt last week, are “racially motivated.”

The NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights organization, asked a court Tuesday to block what it called a “racially motivated” congressional map that dilutes the political power of Black voters.

Full Weight of American Tariffs Slams Into Effect Against India As punishment for buying Russian oil, President Trump is doubling the tax on goods imported from India, jeopardizing a relationship decades in the making.

Breaking News: President Trump’s 50% tariff on imports from India has taken effect, jeopardizing the country’s relationship with the U.S.

Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.

Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family reut.rs/4mW46Hi

She’s 7 Years Old. Her Parents Are Saving to Support Her When She’s 30. There is a novel strain of financial advice that suggests supporting grown children isn’t a reason to be ashamed. It is probably necessary, and sometimes even desirable.

“If given the choice, she asked them, would they rather have gone to private school, an expense the couple was also considering, or receive a monthly check indefinitely? Everyone picked the money.” www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

#booksky

As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

One more from my stint in South Korea: At last count, some 7 million people studied abroad. As Trump pushes away international students, it appears that fewer of them will come to American schools.

But Southeast Asia is aggressively taking up the slack.

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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted Mr. al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas, which he had denied.

An Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists. Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas.

Greece’s Mitsotakis blocks probe into ministers over massive EU farm funds fraud The prime minister is wielding his parliamentary majority to prevent a full-scale investigation into ministers suspected of wrongdoing.

#Greece’s farm fraud offers damning evidence that — after three bailouts and a financial crisis that lasted over a decade — the country still hasn’t cleared out the rot.

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