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All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features 7 days a week.

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All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features 7 days a week.

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Taylor Swift is engaged to Travis Kelce. That's a business opportunity in Kansas City

8/27/2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ryan Fortney, VP of sales for Charlie Hustle -- a company that sells Kansas City-themed apparel, about the merch opportunities from the Swift-Kelce engagement.

Duration:00:03:26

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High school credit recovery programs help students graduate, but there are critics

8/27/2025
Credit recovery programs help high school students that have failed courses graduate. Advocates say it prevents students from dropping out while critics say it lowers standards.

Duration:00:04:32

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Fox News host-turned-prosecutor Jeanine Pirro cheers Trump's intervention in policing

8/27/2025
D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro knows something about being in front of the camera after nearly two decades as a TV Fox News anchor. She's putting those skills to work under Trump to be tough on crime.

Duration:00:03:54

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Darker cars absorb more heat and make cities feel hotter

8/27/2025
In urban environments, heat gets absorbed and released by the pavement, buildings and other objects. A new study says that an underestimated factor in urban warming is heat radiating from parked cars.

Duration:00:02:36

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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar reacts to the deadly mass shooting at a Catholic school

8/27/2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar about her reaction to Wednesday's deadly mass shooting at a Catholic church.

Duration:00:07:20

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How Lisa Cook made her name in economics

8/27/2025
We look back at the seminal economic research that helped Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook make her name in economics.

Duration:00:07:53

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China-Afghan oil deal ends amid charges of hostage-taking and contract breach

8/27/2025
The recent collapse of a high-profile Chinese oil deal in Afghanistan sheds light on the often opaque relationship between Beijing and the Taliban.

Duration:00:04:08

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Why African elephant poop is so important to this American guitar company

8/27/2025
A new study shows how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars -- and how poaching of elephants is contributing to a decrease in ebony trees.

Duration:00:04:03

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Ed People: the 'favorite dance move' guy

8/27/2025
"More dance, less hate." Belgian dancer and social media influencer Ed People travels the globe asking people 'Can you show me your favorite dance move?' The result has been hundreds of videos that he hopes will show how there's more that unites than divides human beings, one dance step at a time.

Duration:00:03:43

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How do Israeli media cover Gaza? Some say they've abandoned their most essential role

8/27/2025
There's a big gap between how Israelis and the rest of the world perceive the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, mostly because of how the Israeli media portray the conflict.

Duration:00:05:25

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What happens when the federal government owns part of a company?

8/27/2025
President Trump says taking a 10% stake in Intel will be good for the company and the country. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Insitiute, who disagrees.

Duration:00:06:23

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The latest on the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school

8/27/2025
Early Wednesday morning, a gunman shot into the windows of a Catholic school in Minneapolis. At least two children were killed and several others were injured.

Duration:00:04:37

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The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits

8/27/2025
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.

Duration:00:03:57

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Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC

8/27/2025
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.

Duration:00:03:54

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What's tea? No, seriously. What's 'tea'?

8/27/2025
How did a word that simply referred to a millennia-old beverage come to be the latest iteration of "what's up?"

Duration:00:02:35

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Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back

8/27/2025
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.

Duration:00:04:10

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A doctor in Lebanon races to heal the handful of kids from Gaza he can reach

8/26/2025
In Lebanon, a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in helping children recover from war wounds meets with a 6-year-old girl who lost her arm to an explosion in Gaza nearly two years ago.

Duration:00:08:17

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How domestic terrorism is defined in the Trump era

8/26/2025
The FBI has stepped back its role in investigating a recent attack on the CDC campus in Atlanta. It's one data point in the picture of how the current administration thinks about domestic terrorism.

Duration:00:04:49

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Former Weeki Wachee Mermaids return to the springs as seniors

8/26/2025
Once a mermaid, always a mermaid. A group of women in their 70s recently visited the Florida springs where they once performed as mermaids to see if they still had the magic.

Duration:00:02:40

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What to know about the upcoming changes to 'de minimus' shipping rules

8/26/2025
A big change is coming to online shopping in the U.S. on Friday. That's when President Trump's policy suspending the "de minimus" rule on international shipments to the U.S. takes effect.

Duration:00:02:44