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When the U.S. and Israel bomb Iran and start a war, we know about it moments after it’s started — sometimes even moments before. When Russian tanks cross the border into Ukraine, we watch as it’s happening. This access to immediacy — our ability to be there as history is unfolding — much of that is possible, thanks to the vision of CNN founder Ted Turner.

Turner transformed the media industry and revolutionized television news when he launched the Cable News Network — CNN — in 1980. It was the country’s first 24-hour news channel. Turner died Wednesday. He was 87. 

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour about Turner’s legacy.

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There already was an affordability crisis in the U.S. How the war with Iran is making life more expensive. 

President Trump says the economy is “roaring.” 

That as Americans are paying an average price of $4.48 a gallon for gas on Tuesday. 

A year ago it was $3.17. 

The reason for that increase — the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, which resulted in the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.

Gas prices are just one measure of the cost of living in the United States. But they’re a significant one. 

Martha Gimbel, executive director at the Budget Lab at Yale, weighs in on how the war with Iran is affecting American's bottom line. 

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How much is the war hitting American's bottom line?

Trump is once again threatening NATO allies. What would a reduction of U.S. troops in Germany mean for security and the U.S. military?

Today, about 36-thousand U.S. troops are stationed in Germany, and they’re a key part of the U.S. military ecosystem and the NATO alliance.

Now, President Trump plans to reduce that number.

Trump has grown increasingly and publicly frustrated with NATO allies. 

This time he’s taking it out on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said the U.S. has been humiliated by Iran.

Among the many questions raised by this: What are U.S. troops doing in Germany anyway?

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Trump says he's pulling U.S. Troops from Germany. Does it matter?

The war with Iran is in a deadlock. Despite a back and forth of peace plans, there is no permanent ceasefire. 

President Trump has oscillated between a willingness to engage in diplomacy and threats to resume the American bombing campaign if he doesn’t get a deal.

All this has complicated negotiations, which the U.S. and Iran are holding through intermediaries.

So, how do leaders try to negotiate with countries they’re in conflict with?

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How does diplomacy work during a military deadlock?

Covering a war isn’t easy and it takes a whole team working both on the air and behind the scenes to bring you accurate, independent reporting from the frontlines. 

For this week’s Reporter’s Notebook we speak with two journalists about the challenges of covering the war in the Middle East. Durrie Bouscaren has been reporting from the Turkish-Iranian border and NPR reporter Kat Lonsdorf has been covering the war in southern Lebanon.

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What it takes to report stories from the war in the Middle East

The Trump administration has paused immigration applications for people from 39 countries, and for those already living in the U.S. the impact has been catastrophic.

The lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in the country were thrown into limbo after the Trump administration paused their immigration applications in recent months.

They were students, engineers, teachers and others living and working legally in the U.S.

The pause affects those who were born in one of 39 countries the U.S. says pose a national security risk. 

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Trump immigration application pause throws lives in limbo

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks he has the answer to addiction treatment. The experts say otherwise.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks he’s cracked the code for addiction treatment. 

Kennedy, who used heroin for more than a decade, believes wellness, work and abstinence like the methods practiced in a rural Italian facility are the keys to sobriety. 

But Kennedy is facing new criticism over his proposal to open government-run farm and work camps. NPR addiction correspondent Brian Mann traveled to Italy to see things up close.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. 

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RFK Jr. says it's the model for addiction treatment. Experts disagree

A New Hampshire Republican. A German Holocaust denier. A suspicious bottle of baby oil. An NPR investigation reveals how the alarming rise of antisemitic conspiracy theories reached a state capitol.

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This episode was reported and produced by Tom Dreisbach, with help from Karen Zamora. It was edited by Barrie Hardymon with help from Monika Evstatieva, Bob Little, and Kristian Monroe. Audio engineering by Jimmy Keeley.

Tony Cavin is NPR’s Managing Editor for Standard and Practices. 

Legal support from Johannes Doerge.

Thanks also to Dan Barrick and our colleagues at New Hampshire Public Radio.

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How an antisemitic conspiracy theory made its way to a state capitol

The Illinois state government has been investigating the United States government.

Specifically, a panel called the Illinois Accountability Commission has been conducting interviews and reviewing footage from last year's federal immigration enforcement crackdown in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker established the commission late last year to create a public record of the weeks-long immigration crackdown throughout the Chicago area. 

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Can Illinois hold the feds accountable for immigration crackdown?

Within minutes of the news of a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, people claimed on social media that the incident was “STAGED." To be clear — these were conspiracy theories, not supported by what we know about the suspect. 

The most common of these theories claim the shooting was orchestrated in an effort to boost President Trump’s plans for a new White House ballroom.

It isn’t surprising that rampant speculation would instantly surround an act of apparent politically-motivated violence, but this incident suggests that voices on the left are increasingly engaged with conspiracy theories. 

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Correspondents dinner shooting unleashes conspiracy theories

Keffiyehs, checkered scarves most closely associated with Palestinians, have been in the news lately. In Vermont, three men of Palestinian descent, two of whom were wearing keffiyehs, were shot. 

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Wafa Ghnaim, a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People, about the history of the garment, what it means to Palestinian identity and what it means to her.

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The Symbolism And History Of The Keffiyeh

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