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  • How Did This Get Here: Your iPhone

    How Did This Get Here: Your iPhone
    Apr 2 2025
    Your new iPhone goes through a lot before you peel the plastic off and finally boot it up. Further Apple purchases might have to go through more thanks to the Trump administration's tariffs.

    From its assembly, to its packaging, to its shipping, to stocking, to purchase, it's a long process. So, what does it actually look like? Why is this the way we do it? And what could be done to make things better?

    This is our new series,"How Did This Get Here." We explore how goods make their way to us from overseas to our hands. This week we discuss iPhones.

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  • Birding To Help Revitalize Conservation Efforts

    Birding To Help Revitalize Conservation Efforts
    Apr 1 2025
    Some of the best songs you can hear this spring aren't on the radio.

    Hundreds of millions of birds make their annual migration back into North America in early March. Despite their return to our neighborhoods and backyards to wake us up bright and early, a new report reveals they're numbering fewer and fewer.

    The 2025 State of the Birds report is a joint effort spearheaded by a coalition of science and conservation organizations. It found widespread population decline across nearly all habitats and that over one third of species require conservation help.

    But it's not all bad news. The report also finds that an increased interest in birding has led to more volunteer data that helped shaped the report.

    We discuss what we can learn about our feathered friends and our environment while birding.

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  • ICYMI: Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Are Almost Here

    ICYMI: Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Are Almost Here
    Apr 1 2025
    President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" of reciprocal tariffs is almost here.

    On April 2, Trump is rolling out a plan that would charge a blanket dollar for dollar tax on goods coming into the U.S. Trump clarified Sunday that this policy would apply to all countries instead of a more focused list.

    The uncertainty around and scope of these tariffs (and a potential trade war) has spooked Wall Street and raised fears of inflation.

    We discuss America's financial future.

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  • 'If You Can Keep It': Trump And Big Law Firms

    'If You Can Keep It': Trump And Big Law Firms
    Mar 31 2025
    President Trump is known for going after his political opponents.

    And for the past month or so, one target has been certain powerful lawyers and law firms.

    But why is he going after these lawyers and firms? Will courts let him get away with intimidating law firms he doesn't like with threats and executive orders?

    And how does it all fit into Trump's broader efforts to tilt the legal system to his advantage?

    Today we hear from one of the lawyers named in the recent flurry of White House orders and memos that aim to limit law firm's ability to represent clients.

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  • ICYMI: The Special Florida Congressional Race Is Close

    ICYMI: The Special Florida Congressional Race Is Close
    Mar 31 2025
    Florida holds a special election tomorrow for a House seat that has long been solidly red. Now? Maybe a bit less so.

    Former Congressman Mike Waltz gave up his seat in the 6th Congressional District – the area around Daytona Beach – to accept the post of President Donald Trump's national security advisor. In line to win his vacant seat tomorrow is Trump-backed Randy Fine, a state senator.

    But in recent days polls have been too close for comfort for many Republicans. Fine's Democratic opponent, math teacher Josh Weil, has raised $10 million for his campaign. Fine has brought in just $1 million.

    We discuss what we could learn from tomorrow's results.

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  • Foreign Journalists On Covering The Trump Administration

    Foreign Journalists On Covering The Trump Administration
    Mar 30 2025
    We've spent a lot of time in 2025 talking about the president. The executive orders. The court challenges. The cabinet appointments. Now, the Signal group chats.

    It's a challenge to report on the administration, full stop. But what if you're not reporting on the administration for an audience directly affected by the U.S. federal government? What kinds of challenges does that present?

    In a 1A first, we sit down in front of an audience at our home base at WAMU in Washington, DC, to talk to three international journalists about their experiences covering the Trump administration for their audiences back home.

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  • The News Roundup For March 28, 2025

    The News Roundup For March 28, 2025
    Mar 28 2025
    This week the Atlantic published messages shared between national security officials on a Signal group chat laying out plans for U.S airstrikes in Yemen. It appears that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the message thread. European leaders have been cautious in their comments on the scandal.

    President Trump is threatening to suspend security clearances and access to federal buildings of lawyers he does not like.

    Meanwhile, Israel continues its military campaign in Gaza after breaking the ceasefire agreement with Hamas earlier this month.

    And five lions rescued from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine have now been resettled in England by the Wild Animals Rescue Center.

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  • ICYMI: The Consequences Of Slashing USAID Funding

    ICYMI: The Consequences Of Slashing USAID Funding
    Mar 28 2025
    The acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, Nicholas Enrich, was placed on administrative leave in early March.

    Before his departure, he had made a series of chilling predictions in memos concerning the consequences of the Trump administration's gutting of the agency.

    These include some 18 million additional cases of malaria and 166,000 resulting deaths. One million children who will remain malnourished. And 200,000 additional children paralyzed by polio.

    And he placed the blame squarely at the feet of USAID leadership, the State Department, and DOGE.

    We discuss what the world will look like without American aid to help address global problems.

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    16 m