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GOP presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, gathered in Iowa. Meanwhile the attorney general has appointed a special counsel for Hunter Biden.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Tim Alberta of The Atlantic about the split in the Republican Party as former president Donald Trump continues to exercise his influence over it.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on an issue that courts have not questioned in more than a century: birthright citizenship. NPR's Ari Shapiro discusses the case with law professor Amanda Frost.

President Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal government are also threatening a key banking watchdog.

As President Trump carries out his "flood the zone" strategy, Democrats in Congress are confronting the constraints of life in the minority and the limited options they have to slow down his agenda.

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with singer-songwriter Tom Odell about his new album, "Best Day of My Life."

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon, amid Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history's first American pope on the road.

NBA coaching legend Phil Jackson and basketball writer Sam Smith take their decades-long friendship to the page in their book Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 players.

In late-night calls, Ofer Bronchtein, a French-Israeli activist, persuaded the French president to draft his historic plan to recognize a Palestinian state.

NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant look back on the year in sports, from the the rise of sports gambling to the most momentous games of 2025.