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  • The News Roundup For April 18, 2025

    The News Roundup For April 18, 2025
    2025/04/18
    Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the big name in the news this week as he remains imprisoned in El Salvador. A U.S. District judge chastised the Department of Justice for not following her order to facilitate his release.

    Meanwhile, America's top diplomat says time is running out for US-led talks to find a path of peace in Ukraine.

    Those remarks from Paris follow Russian airstrikes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 people in Sumy, Ukraine, mid-morning on Palm Sunday. It's the deadliest attack in the country's invasion this year.

    Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his country's troops will not leave established buffer zones in Gaza after the war ends.

    And this week, the rebel group fighting the Sudanese army for power announced that it has formed its own government.

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  • Game Mode: The Switch 2 And The Future Of Gaming

    Game Mode: The Switch 2 And The Future Of Gaming
    2025/04/18
    The successor to the Nintendo Switch is (almost) here. But it's arrived at an awkward time for both Nintendo and gamers alike.

    The Switch 2 was initially announced in January, but fans learned much more about it during a Nintendo Direct livestream a few weeks ago. It included information about the system's launch date (June 5), its hardware specs, the games Nintendo fans could expect to play at release, and, perhaps most importantly, prices for both the Switch 2 and its games.

    That last part has put a damper on some of the enthusiasm for the system's launch. It will retail for $449.99. The price of Nintendo's games is also climbing.

    Nintendo is citing a rise in the cost of the console's production as well as economic uncertainties like President Donald Trump's tariffs as reasons for the price hikes.

    We dig into the latest for this installment of our series, "Game Mode."

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  • The Effect Of Tariffs On Small Businesses

    The Effect Of Tariffs On Small Businesses
    2025/04/17
    President Donald Trump promised tariffs on the campaign trail. Those tariffs are here – but how much of them, where, and on who, has changed a few times.

    Here's where things stand right now: President Trump rolled tariff rates back to a baseline ten percent for most countries, but raised the tariffs on China to 145 percent. Global trading markets plunged due to a series of rapid shifts in trade policy.

    We discuss how these policies affect small businesses, many of which have to rely on goods that come from other countries.

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    36 分
  • How Did This Get Here: Your Coffee

    How Did This Get Here: Your Coffee
    2025/04/16
    The last few weeks have had many of us thinking long and hard about the things we buy, the price of those goods, and the potential for those prices to jump.

    This episode is part of our series, "How Did This Get Here?", where we follow goods as they make their way through the global supply chain, and explore what the president's announced tariffs may mean for your pocketbook.

    Today, we continue our series with.a product some of you may be sipping on right now. It's coffee.

    Coffee is everywhere. The average person in the U-S drinks a bit more than 3 cups a day. And Americans spend almost 100 and 10 billion dollars every year on the drink.

    And that amount is going up. Perhaps you've noticed the price for your favorite brand jumped in recent months? The average price of ground coffee in the supermarket hit an all-time high in March, at 7 dollars 38 cents a pound. That's up 84 percent since just before the pandemic.

    We discuss what's behind the jump. And what tariffs...and the warming climate...mean for your favorite cup of joe.

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  • Tax Day: Checking In On The IRS

    Tax Day: Checking In On The IRS
    2025/04/15
    Frustration with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing new. A Pew Research survey found it's the least popular federal agency among Americans.

    But that should come as no surprise. After all, the IRS is responsible for collecting what we owe the government.

    During fiscal year 2024, the IRS collected more than $5 trillion in tax revenue.

    But this year, Tax Day arrives amid upheaval at the agency. Just last week, the head of the IRS resigned – the third to do so since President Trump's inauguration. And his administration announced plans to lay off up to a quarter of the agency's workforce.

    We discuss the latest at the IRS and the impact changes at the agency could have for the 2025 tax season.

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  • ICYMI: The Upcoming Budget Cuts At NOAA

    ICYMI: The Upcoming Budget Cuts At NOAA
    2025/04/15
    What's the weather like in your area? Chances are you took a look at your preferred weather app on your phone before heading outside.

    We can find that information easily because of weather data that comes from the National Weather Service. It's a part of the federal agency NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    The Trump Administration plans to cut billions of dollars from NOAA in its upcoming 2026 budget plans.

    The cuts could result in a remaking of the agency and eliminate much of the research it conducts that Americans use every day.

    We discuss how the loss of NOAA could affect our day to day.

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  • 'If You Can Keep It': Higher Education Funding

    'If You Can Keep It': Higher Education Funding
    2025/04/14
    The Trump administration is threatening to pull billions of dollars in funding from top universities across the country.

    Last week, it froze $1 billion meant for Cornell University and $750 million meant for Northwestern University. The two schools are currently being investigated for alleged antisemitism on campus.

    And last month, the administration canceled $400 million in grants and contracts for Columbia University also over allegations of antisemitism on campus. President Trump has since targeted other universities including Brown, Harvard, and Princeton.

    We continue our "If You Can Keep It" series with a look at the higher education funding under the Trump administration.

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  • The News Roundup For April 11, 2025

    The News Roundup For April 11, 2025
    2025/04/11
    This week the Supreme Court told the Trump administration Thursday that it must "facilitate" the release and retrieval of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

    After announcing tariffs on almost every country in the world last week, President Donald Trump announced this week that he was pausing reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Except for those on China.

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to Texas after a second death linked to a measles outbreak in the state was reported.

    Meanwhile, Ukraine says Chinese soldiers are now waging war alongside Russian soldiers. China denies the accusation.

    And on Tuesday, Japan signaled that it would be interested in joining NATO's support of Ukraine as it continues to fight off the Russian invasion.

    Our all-star panels help guide us through the most important headlines this week.

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