“Asked about concerns that NPR may still face layoffs to ease ongoing budget strains, Maher noted the contributions… were intended for specific purposes, not to build the endowment or to expand news coverage… Maher did not rule out job cuts this year.”
NEW: @npr.org has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totaling $113 million.
More:
Why did Dave Chappelle agree to a comedy show in Saudi Arabia?
Why does he live in Yellow Springs, Ohio?
And why did he pay for a new headquarters for the NPR station there?
Just an amazing NPR Newsmakers conversation with Michel Martin.
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With the Swalwell/Gonzales resignations, we're (still) at 83 total House+Senate members who started the 119th Congress but won't be there for the 120th Congress.
Includes 9 resignations, 4 deaths, 1 (so far) primary defeat and a slew of retirements:
President Trump is announcing more U.S. House endorsements on Truth Social today, including a mixture of safe GOP and contested races.
Trump's 2026 federal endorsements have come even earlier than normal in primaries (and it's notable where no endorsements have come yet)
I’m on @the1a.org today talking about the trend of Democrats overperforming in elections since Trump returned to office even as people hate on the Democratic Party.
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NEW: Governments on all sides of the Iran conflict have sought to censor information coming out of the war. Here's an in depth look at those efforts (and whether they're working).
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
As your friendly neighborhood Buc-ee’s correspondent, I promise you we did NOT plan a trip to see family in Ohio to come a few days after the first store in the state opened in Dayton.
But we DID experience shorter lines than recent ATL airport TSA waits…
Stumbled across something magnificent in the wild today at a Graeter’s, where I will admit the only thing that stopped me from getting it is that the girl working there hadn’t tried it yet.
Went on @NPR.org Morning Edition today and chatted with @steveinskeep.bsky.social about what “overperfomance” means and looks like for Democrats since losing big in 2024.
(Hint: the margins say a lot about what could come in November)
Went on @NPR.org Morning Edition today and chatted with @steveinskeep.bsky.social about what “overperfomance” means and looks like for Democrats since losing big in 2024.
(Hint: the margins say a lot about what could come in November)
New @npr.org: After giving Republicans control of the White House and Congress in the 2024 presidential election, voters have continued to swing their support toward the Democratic Party in races held since then.
A look at the latest overperformance data:
With elections in Georgia and Wisconsin Tuesday, Democrats continued to overperform, which the party started in 2025 when it regularly improved on its margins compared to the presidential race in 2024. n.pr/4dBSaJy
In Tuesday's elections, that shift was on display for key races in Wisconsin and Georgia, where results saw a shift of nearly 20 percentage points away from GOP margins in 2024.
New @npr.org: After giving Republicans control of the White House and Congress in the 2024 presidential election, voters have continued to swing their support toward the Democratic Party in races held since then.
A look at the latest overperformance data:
Each sentence of the president’s Truth Social post this Easter morning is both deserving of its own headline and inseparable from the others.
I am also insanely jealous I did not pitch/do a similar story that would have made great radio, up to and including trying to “teleport” to a Waffle House the way I did countless times in college (bourbon)
Every bit of this Richard Fausset piece about Waffle House is a masterclass.
Nobody recalled any teleportation to WaHo “despite their reputation as powerful magnets for the sort of idiosyncratic characters who tend to surf the psychic fringes of the American South.”
Bondi leaving as AG comes after more than a year of nonstop scandals and missteps over the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files, including recent reporting from NPR and others about Trump-related documents withheld and removed from its public database.
Breaking News:
President Trump has announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi is out at the Justice Department. Her departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and handling of the Epstein files.
President Trump announced Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi is out from the top job at the Justice Department.
Her departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and her handling of the Epstein files.
New -- A federal judge has knocked down the core of President Trump's executive order barring federal funding for @npr.org and PBS, saying it violated the broadcasters' First Amendment rights on its face.
(Though that federal funding does not exist anymore)
With Rep. Sam Graves' Friday announcement (and appointment/planned retirement of Sen. Alan Armstrong)
NPR's Congressional retirement tracker is up to *71* current members who don't plan to return in 2027.
Record exodus of Republicans from both chambers.
With Rep. Sam Graves' Friday announcement (and appointment/planned retirement of Sen. Alan Armstrong)
NPR's Congressional retirement tracker is up to *71* current members who don't plan to return in 2027.
Record exodus of Republicans from both chambers.
As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party. via @stevemistler.bsky.social
NEW: After eight days of deliberations, jury in Los Angeles social media trial finds Meta and Google are liable for contributing to the mental health issues of plaintiff KGM through the defective design of its social media platforms, awarding her $3 million in damages.
The same malaise folks have felt towards the government in Washington hasn't magically disappeared just because Democrats have taken over running things in some communities across the country.
