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TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. And today, my guest is George Packer from The Atlantic. His latest story, “The Talented Mr. Vance,” offers a sharp portrait of Vice President JD Vance, tracing his journey from a childhood shaped by poverty in the Appalachian Hills of Kentucky and the industrial decline of Middletown, Ohio, to the rarefied worlds of Yale Law School, Silicon Valley venture capital, and now the White House. In recent weeks, Vice President Vance has found himself in the international spotlight after he briefly met with Pope Francis the day before he died,…

President Trump said Wednesday he will “take a look at” pardoning a group of men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, calling the case — which has resulted in two convictions and two guilty pleas — a “railroad job.””I will take a look at it. It’s been brought to my attention,” Mr. Trump said at a swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Attorney in D.C. Jeanine Pirro. “I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job, I’ll be honest with you,” Mr. Trump said. “It looked to me like some people said…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener, and later in the show we’ll have Twenty Minutes without Trump.  Today:  J. Edgar Hoover: We know a lot about the bad things he did, but it turns out there’s a lot we didn’t know. in this episode from the archives, Historian Beverly Gage will explain. Her award-winning book is “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover & the Making of the American Century.”   But first: last November Kamala Harris got 36% of the rural vote.Democrats have got to do better with rural voters — We’ll talk about how…

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way.An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely — is emitting X-rays around the same time it’s shooting out radio waves. What’s more, the cycle repeats every 44 minutes, at least during periods of extreme activity.X-rays and radio waves are two different types of electromagnetic radiation. The correlation in their emission patterns in this case, along with other mysterious observations, led the study’s authors to characterize what they found as “unlike any known Galactic object.”Located 15,000 light-years away in…

The State Department has ordered U.S. embassies to temporarily stop scheduling new student visa appointments, as the Trump administration works to expand social media screenings for applicants, the latest in a series of restrictions on international students.In a cable dated Tuesday and obtained by CBS News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed diplomatic posts not to add any more appointments for student and foreign exchange visas in preparation for the expanded vetting, and to take any unfilled appointments off their calendars. If students have already scheduled their visa interviews, those can still go forward.The pause will last “until further guidance…

An old mine cart is parked outside the Gila County Historical Museum in Globe, Ariz. Mining is still part of the local economy, but many area residents have low-wage jobs that make them eligible for Medicaid. Linda Gross for KFF Health News hide caption toggle caption Linda Gross for KFF Health News GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid. Cox, who is a property manager at a real estate company in Globe, has tenants who rely on the safety-net program. And at the…

Video game retailer GameStop on Wednesday announced it has bought 4,710 bitcoin, worth over $500 million, in its first big crypto push.GameStop’s stock price jumped 92 cents, or 2.6%, to $35.97 before the start of trade Wednesday. The shares, dubbed a “meme stock” in recent years as retail investors piled into the company despite its lack of profits, has surged more than 84% over the last 12 months.—This is a developing story and will be updated. Megan Cerullo Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics.…

I soon realized that neither the law nor the facts matter to the Committee on Education’s Republican inquisitors. Ad Policy Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College; Robert Manuel, president of DePaul University; David Cole, a professor at Georgetown Law and former legal director of the ACLU; and Jeffrey Armstrong, president of California Polytechnic State University testify during a hearing before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on “Beyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses.” (Alex Wong /…

Vice President JD Vance is speaking Wednesday at a Bitcoin conference, marking the Trump administration’s latest overture to the cryptocurrency industry — a once-fringe business that President Trump and his allies have embraced in recent months.Vance is set to speak at noon ET at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas. A longstanding backer of cryptocurrencies, Vance owned between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of Bitcoin, according to an August 2024 financial disclosure.The Las Vegas event will feature a handful of other Trump backers: His two eldest sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who have invested in crypto ventures, are…

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