NPR
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Emily: Ashley Lopez and Benjamin Swasey for NPR: Trump signs a new executive order on voting.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026
NPR didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
But NPR chief executive Katherine Maher celebrated the ruling as a "decisive affirmation of the rights of a free and independent press."
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
A recent Brookings Institute report, though, showed the opposite: that kids who use a lot of AI “are not thinking for themselves,” as Rebecca Winthrop, one of the study’s authors, told NPR.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026
It feels like we should be talking about deep things—classy, intellectual things, like NPR or death.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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