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Vermont Judge releases Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi

6:06pm April 30, 2025

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.

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Tsunami Relief Money Is Slow to Take Effect

It's been 6 months since a tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing a quarter of a million people in a dozen countries. As NPR's Margot Adler reports, the billions of dollars in aid that have poured into those countries is only beginning to make a dent.

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A Closer Look at the Social Security Plans

Competing Republican-sponsored bills to reshape Social Security offer a few key differences. Maya MacGuineas, of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation, says neither bill does much about the program's long-term funding.

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A Closer Look at the Social Security Plans

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House, Senate Proffer Social Security Bills

by Brian Naylor

House and Senate Republicans have offered proposals that would include putting the current Social Security surplus into individual accounts. Many Democrats oppose the idea, but may be powerless to stop it.

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House, Senate Proffer Social Security Bills

by Brian Naylor

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Will AI search engines lead to the death of the website? Some fear they will

by Bobby Allyn

Online publishers fear the rise of AI search will lead to a drastic drop in traffic to websites, fundamentally disrupting how the internet economy operates.