Car prices hit a record high New car prices hit a record high, and President Trump blames fuel efficiency standards. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bloomberg Detroit bureau chief David Welch about what's behind the high prices. Ayesha Rascoe
Questions of accuracy arise as Washington Post uses AI to create personalized podcasts The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest. Bill Chappell
CNN has endured turmoil for years. Now Trump wants role in its fate In the corporate battle over parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's fate remains up for grabs. President Trump wants a say in what happens next. David Folkenflik
Farmers welcome Trump's $12 billion aid package, say additional relief is needed President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm equipment more expensive, and the President's trade war with China which closed a huge market for American soybean exports. Eric Whitney
Elizabeth Warren says both bids to buy Warner Bros. Discovery are bad for consumers Sen. Elizabeth Warren cautions that the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to either Netflix or Paramount Skydance could reduce competition and concentrate power over what films and news American see. Steve Inskeep
Trump calls affordability crisis a 'hoax.' The data tells a different story As Democrats campaigning on affordability pick up wins, Trump's messaging about a strong economy is at odds with widespread voter sentiment that he's not doing enough to tackle rising costs. Joe Hernandez
Why news organizations are suing AI companies, and what they hope to win The New York Times and Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity last week, the latest in a series of publishers suing AI companies in a bid to set boundaries around a new technology powered by information. John Ruwitch
Can the lessons of 1929 help us avert another economic crisis? New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin draws parallels between the stock market crash of 1929, which led to the Great Depression, and today's economic uncertainty. Dave Davies
Brett Cooper says she makes up her own mind — about Trump and everything else NPR's Steve Inskeep asks conservative commentator Brett Cooper about her YouTube following, her recent criticisms of President Trump and her opinion of Nick Fuentes. Steve Inskeep
Feeling burned out? There's a word for that in Mandarin Chinese How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking. Emily Feng