The Latest Science Amid funding cuts and public health battles, NIH issues autism research grants Cornell University will receive $5.1 million as the Trump administration seeks to find a source and cure for autism. Alana Wise World What to know as Gaza ceasefire talks begin in Egypt Israel and Hamas appear closer than ever to a deal to end their two-year war — but questions remain. Delegations from Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar are meeting on Monday. Rebecca Rosman Health Why do women live longer than men? Study offers clues to close the gap Women have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to living longer. They outlive men by about 5 years. This gender gap is true for many mammals, but a new study shows how human males could narrow it. Allison Aubrey Politics Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention. Ximena Bustillo Seattle spent millions on hotel rooms to shelter unhoused people. Then it stopped filling them Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. Ashley Hiruko National Supreme Court term will tackle executive power, executive power and executive power The term promises to be hugely consequential and focused in large part on how much power the Constitution gives to the president. Nina Totenberg Books Palestinian journalist's new book offers a window into the war in Gaza Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad documented Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip after the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks. Her diary is now a book called "The Eyes of Gaza." Leila Fadel National Illinois governor calls National Guard deployment an 'invasion' of his state Several clashes happened over the weekend between protesters and federal agents in Chicago. It comes as the Trump administration and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker fight over National Guard deployments. Araceli Gomez-Aldana Climate 'A cost of climate change': Why the price of electricity is outpacing inflation NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Robinson Meyer of the climate and energy site Heatmap News why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation. Steve Inskeep World France's prime minister resigns just weeks into his post French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned Monday, dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron and plunging the country into a political crisis. Eleanor Beardsley Prev 321 of 1653 Next Sponsored
Science Amid funding cuts and public health battles, NIH issues autism research grants Cornell University will receive $5.1 million as the Trump administration seeks to find a source and cure for autism. Alana Wise
World What to know as Gaza ceasefire talks begin in Egypt Israel and Hamas appear closer than ever to a deal to end their two-year war — but questions remain. Delegations from Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar are meeting on Monday. Rebecca Rosman
Health Why do women live longer than men? Study offers clues to close the gap Women have an evolutionary advantage when it comes to living longer. They outlive men by about 5 years. This gender gap is true for many mammals, but a new study shows how human males could narrow it. Allison Aubrey
Politics Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention. Ximena Bustillo
Seattle spent millions on hotel rooms to shelter unhoused people. Then it stopped filling them Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. Ashley Hiruko
National Supreme Court term will tackle executive power, executive power and executive power The term promises to be hugely consequential and focused in large part on how much power the Constitution gives to the president. Nina Totenberg
Books Palestinian journalist's new book offers a window into the war in Gaza Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad documented Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip after the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks. Her diary is now a book called "The Eyes of Gaza." Leila Fadel
National Illinois governor calls National Guard deployment an 'invasion' of his state Several clashes happened over the weekend between protesters and federal agents in Chicago. It comes as the Trump administration and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker fight over National Guard deployments. Araceli Gomez-Aldana
Climate 'A cost of climate change': Why the price of electricity is outpacing inflation NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Robinson Meyer of the climate and energy site Heatmap News why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation. Steve Inskeep
World France's prime minister resigns just weeks into his post French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned Monday, dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron and plunging the country into a political crisis. Eleanor Beardsley
