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The Movie That Can Help You Understand Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Senate Speech

“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring Jimmy Stewart as a naïve senator, explores the idealism — and reality — behind the tactic.
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Tiger Woods Has Company in $100M Club in PGA Tour History

There are now two PGA Tour players with over $100 million in career earnings as another PGA Tour star joined Tiger Woods in the illustrious club.
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Katy Perry says she’s going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut in nutty interview ahead of all-female Blue Origin space flight

“I think it’s so important for people to see us like that,” civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen said. “This dichotomy of engineer and scientist, and then beauty and fashion. We contain multitudes. Women are multitudes.”
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Trump ends ‘Liberation Day’ suspense with new 10% worldwide tariff and additional tariffs for certain countries

The president’s long-awaited tariff announcement, which marks a middle ground between competing approaches he weighed in recent weeks, could reorient the global trading system for decades.
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Bryson DeChambeau’s LIV Golf Glass is Half Full, Brooks Koepka Running Empty

Bryson DeChambeau pumped the breaks on the lack of progress in LIV Golf ahead of the upcoming three-day event in Miami.
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Trump takes on Canada again with sweeping new tariffs on goods including autos

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday his long-awaited plan to impose what he’s calling “retaliatory” tariffs on imports coming from dozens of countries, including a punishing 25 per cent levy on Canadian-made automobiles.
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Social Security’s acting leader faces calls to resign over decision to cut Maine contracts

Social Security’s acting leader faces calls to resign over decision to cut Maine contracts
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta lobbying Trump to settle FTC’s antitrust case: report

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is aggressively lobbying the Trump administration to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the company before it goes to trial later this month, according to a report Wednesday.
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Wisconsin’s conservative Supreme Court candidate tells supporters to accept election outcome

The conservative-backed candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election promptly conceded the race as it was called Tuesday night, angering his own supporters, who yelled for him to stay in the fight. “You’ve got to accept the results,” he said.
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Unpacking election results from Florida and Wisconsin : The NPR Politics Podcast

Money poured into races in Florida and Wisconsin at levels usually reserved for elections during a presidential cycle. Republicans held two House seats in Florida, but by smaller margins than their previous wins there. Meanwhile, a judge aligned with Democrats won to keep a liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — despite Elon Musk spending more than $20 million to back the Republicans’ preferred candidate. This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, political correspondent Susan Davis, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.The podcast is produced by Bria Suggs & Kelli Wessinger and edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.