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Politics / November 4, 2025 As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history. Ad Policy Former vice president Dick Cheney(David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images) The week before Dick Cheney died, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, one of the bureaucratic venues through which the most powerful vice president in US history disfigured the country, informed Congress that it would have no say over Donald Trump’s rapidly coalescing military aggression against an oil-rich country. While self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted…

After a week aboard, President Trump will confront a swirl of domestic challenges this week: pivotal elections in several states, Supreme Court tariff arguments and the ongoing government shutdown. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In this hour, we will be remembering the life of Dick Cheney. The former vice president was politically prominent from the 1970s until his death. We’re also following elections on this Tuesday, on this last day of voting across the country today, from New Jersey and Virginia to California. It’s just one of several tests President Trump is facing this week. NPR’s senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith…

Politics / November 4, 2025 How the right’s crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold. Ad Policy White nationalist Nick Fuentes speaks during a rally at the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, November 2020.(Nicole Hester / Mlive.com / Ann Arbor News via AP) Last week, a major ideological schism that has been brewing beneath the surface of the MAGA movement burst into full public view. On one side: a rowdy and ascendant coalition of ultra-nationalists, populists, and Gen-Zers who are clamoring for an end to…

Hide caption Former Vice President Dick Cheney died DATE at the age of XX. He is seen here on Nov. 5, 2000, applauding as retired Gen. Colin Powell speaks at a rally in Del Mar, Calif. Previous Next M. Spencer Green/AP Hide caption Richard B. “Dick” Cheney (right), his brother (second from left) and friends were on a baseball team together in Lincoln, Neb., in 1953. His family moved to Wyoming during the boys’ childhood. Previous Next AP Hide caption Cheney (center) was on the Natrona County High School football team in Casper, Wyo., in 1957. Previous Next Courtesy of…

Politics / November 3, 2025 My message to my fellow Jews in this city is: Don’t believe the lies you’re hearing. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani and supporters walk the Brooklyn Bridge on November 3, 2025.(Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Two weeks ago, while I was canvassing for Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn, a Jewish woman opened the door, saw my campaign flyers, pointed at the Mezuzah attached to her doorframe, and closed the door. If she had only given me a minute, I would have told her that I, too, am Jewish, and that I was born and raised…

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., about how the start of health insurance open enrollment and other issues might change his party’s shutdown strategy going forward. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we’ve been reporting on this increasingly lengthy government shutdown, we’ve been talking with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress about the politics around the shutdown and also about the substantive issues that Selena just told us about. This morning, Senator Chris Van Hollen is with us. He is a Democrat. He is the senior senator from Maryland, and he sits on the Senate appropriations and budget…

California’s community colleges serve over 2.1 million students and constitute by far the largest higher education system in simple student numbers of any in the country, far outstripping the California State, SUNY and other state systems. I taught at nine of these community college campuses across the course of thirteen years, an experience as common and kaleidoscopic as America itself.  Given who this system serves, a vast and diverse working-class, it has become both microcosm and mirror of many of this nation’s practical aspirations and pressing concerns.Crucially, the community colleges educate students at a fraction of the cost of universities…

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, the office humor comic strip, is pictured at work in 2006. Adams has metastatic prostate cancer and he appealed to President Trump to help save his life by solving a bureaucratic problem with his health insurance. It worked: His appointment is Tuesday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Like many, many Americans, Scott Adams had health insurance problems. But Adams — made famous first by his long-running Dilbert cartoon, and later for a racist rant on YouTube — counts some powerful people in his social media circle: President Trump, his son…

Politics / November 3, 2025 A faked viral video of a white CEO shoplifting is one thing. What happens when an AI-generated video incriminates a Black suspect? That’s coming, and we’re completely unprepared. Ad Policy An AI-generated video on the platform Sora purports to depict Open AI CEO Sam Altman shoplifting from Target.(Via x.com) Last month, social media was flooded by a CCTV clip of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stealing from Target and getting stopped by a store security guard. Except he wasn’t, really—that was just the first clip to go viral from Sora, Open AI’s new social…

Tylenol, which contains acetaminophen, has been at the center of a disputed claim that it is linked to autism. Scott Olson/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images North America Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, is buying the company that makes Tylenol and Band-Aids in one of the biggest mergers of the year. The deal, worth almost $49 billion, comes at a particularly difficult time for Tylenol-maker Kenvue, after the Trump administration linked acetaminophen — the active ingredient in this common painkiller — to autism. The assertions came despite a lack of…