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World News

Centrist wins over hard-right nationalist in Romania's presidential race

6:45am May 19, 2025

by Rob Schmitz

With nearly all ballots counted, Romanian voters have elected Bucharest's mayor, a centrist and pro-European Union candidate, as president, over the nationalist choice.

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Economy

Fed needed to raise rates because inflation is still too high, Bostic says

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, about the Fed's decision to raise interest rates again.

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Politics & Government

Besides the Manhattan DA's probe, Trump faces federal investigations

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a multitude of legal challenges. What's the status of those investigations?

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'Morning Edition' welcomes Michel Martin to the host team

NPR's Michel Martin will start her new job on Monday. An NPR luminary, she was most recently Saturday and Sunday host of NPR's All Things Considered.

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Music & Culture

Whitney Houston's estate releases a new album 11 years after the singer's death

The new music could add to her lifetime total of more than 200 million record sales worldwide. The album, with six new songs, returns to her gospel roots. The collection is "I Go To The Rock."

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Science

For coffee lovers there is some good and some bad news

Researchers say coffee drinkers take about 1,000 more steps a day than non-coffee drinkers, but they sleep less than people who don't partake. The study concludes coffee's health effects are complex.

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Classes are resuming in the Los Angeles Unified School District after a strike

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Yolanda Reed, a part-time special education assistant in Los Angeles, about the demands of school support staff that led to a three-day strike.

Florida expands its voucher program to every student, regardless of income

by Lynn Hatter

GOP lawmakers in Florida have voted to expand the state's school voucher program to every student, regardless of family income. Critics say lawmakers have wildly underestimated the program's costs.

National

California has been experiencing intense weather. Is this the new normal?

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University about the wild weather in California this year.

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Centrist wins over hard-right nationalist in Romania's presidential race

Fed needed to raise rates because inflation is still too high, Bostic says

Besides the Manhattan DA's probe, Trump faces federal investigations

'Morning Edition' welcomes Michel Martin to the host team

Whitney Houston's estate releases a new album 11 years after the singer's death

For coffee lovers there is some good and some bad news

Classes are resuming in the Los Angeles Unified School District after a strike

Florida expands its voucher program to every student, regardless of income

California has been experiencing intense weather. Is this the new normal?

All eyes will be on Tosan Evbuomwan when Princeton plays in the Sweet 16

Protests against pension reforms intensify across France

Pakistan's Imran Khan talks of prosecuting opponents as they try to prosecute him

In parts of Turkey and Syria, Muslim month of Ramadan follows deadly quakes