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We unpack one of the biggest economic buzzwords of 2025: What is a "K-shaped' economy?

Baltimore's crime rate dropped dramatically in the past year. NPR's Michel Martin asks Thomas Abt, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, what Baltimore did right.

Italy has quietly made a small change to its national anthem, removing a single word.

The Trump Administration has announced it's stopping all federal funds to Minnesota child care centers in response to allegations of fraud by some providers.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to legal scholar and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade about the Trump administration investigating a YouTube content creator's claims of day care fraud in Minnesota.

Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam says it won't distill bourbon at its main plant in Clermont, Kentucky, for all of 2026 because of economics and changing consumer tastes.

Misinformation after disasters is growing in part because AI-powered software makes it easier to create and spread lies on social media.

New York City's new Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in just after midnight on New Year's Day. He's a democratic socialist, and the city's first Muslim mayor.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Democratic strategist Joel Payne what New York City's new democratic socialist mayor may signify for the Democratic party. Is his energy what the party needs?

Is building strength your New Year's resolution? Here's how to assess strength, come up with goals, start an effective bodyweight routine and stick with it.

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