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Some media executives are calling the FBI’s search of a reporter’s residence yesterday an alarming intrusion into the liberty of the press. The company searched Washington Submit reporter Hannah Natanson’s home as a part of the Trump administration’s investigation of a leak. Brokers seized two computer systems and her smartwatch. Final month, Natanson documented the purge of lots of of 1000’s of federal staff by counting on over 1,000 sources.
The Washington Submit Constructing at One Franklin Sq. Constructing on June 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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🎧 It’s extremely uncommon for the company to look a reporter’s residence as a substitute of an workplace, NPR’s David Folkenflik informed Up First. The federal government has knowledgeable the newspaper that Natanson isn’t the point of interest of the investigation. Marty Baron, a former government editor of The Washington Submit, informed Folkenflik that this administration has displayed a sample of making an attempt to undermine an unbiased press and trying to intrude with its work.
Denmark’s international minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, says there may be nonetheless a “elementary disagreement” between his nation and President Trump concerning Denmark’s territory island Greenland. After assembly with Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday, Løkke Rasmussen mentioned Trump clearly needs to “conquer” the territory. Nevertheless, the 2 sides did comply with kind a working group to proceed discussing U.S. safety considerations.
🎧The U.S. searching for to amass Greenland challenges the principles of worldwide order, particularly the U.N. constitution that claims a member can not use drive in opposition to one other nation to grab territory, says Stewart Patrick, previously of the George W. Bush State Division. Denmark has introduced plans to construct its navy presence in Greenland, in what may very well be thought of a pushback at allegations that it might probably’t defend the nation, based on NPR’s Franco Ordoñez. Sweden and Germany additionally introduced they might ship navy forces to the area, doubtlessly conveying a message to the U.S. that Denmark isn’t alone.
A Trump administration official confirmed to NPR that sweeping cuts to over $2 billion in funding for psychological well being and habit packages are being reversed. The reversal comes after letters concerning the information went out late Tuesday, sending a shockwave by means of the U.S.’ public well being system. Initially, the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration was ending grants for roughly 2,000 organizations, that are frontline packages serving to a number of the most susceptible folks within the nation.
🎧 The reversal comes as aid to folks like Hannah Wesolowski, who’s with the Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness. She says these organizations are deeply demoralized, and over these 24 hours, many individuals thought they had been going to lose their jobs and thought their actually sick sufferers would lose care. NPR’s Brian Mann says folks he has been speaking to really feel rudderless because of the unexplained defunding, after which there was no clear clarification as to why the cash was restored. This comes because the Trump administration has been signaling for months that it thinks lots of the nation’s public well being packages are ineffective and should be changed.
Deep dive

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The dangers of utilizing generative synthetic intelligence to teach youngsters and teenagers presently outweigh the advantages, based on a brand new examine by the Brookings Establishment’s Middle for Common Schooling. The examine discovered that utilizing AI in training can “undermine youngsters’s foundational improvement” and that “the damages it has already prompted are daunting,” although fixable. Here is what the report found:
💻 AI may help college students discover ways to learn and write. It has been discovered to be handiest when supplementing, quite than changing, the efforts of a instructor.💻 College students more and more offloading their very own considering onto the know-how can result in the form of cognitive decline extra generally related to ageing brains.💻 A problem with youngsters’ overuse of AI is that the know-how has been designed to strengthen customers’ beliefs, which is usually a concern in relation to growing social-emotional abilities.
Discover these suggestions to assist harness the advantages of AI with out exposing youngsters to the dangers that the know-how presently poses.
Dwelling higher

Dwelling Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
Physique dissatisfaction is growing amongst younger folks, and it’s beginning to affect extra boys, based on clinicians, together with Dr. Jason Nagata. This growing pattern challenges a long-held tendency in drugs that associates physique picture considerations primarily with ladies. Some teenage boys striving for muscularity like their social media idols can develop compulsive, harmful health club and food plan habits. Nagata says unfavorable physique picture attitudes in boys usually stem from the sensation that they don’t seem to be muscular sufficient. A small portion of these younger males develop an obsession with getting larger and extra muscular, often known as bigorexia.
🏋️♂️ Bigorexia was first described in a 1993 case report, nevertheless it has remained comparatively understudied till just lately.🏋️♂️ The three main pressures that contribute to the rise of muscle dysmorphia and males’s need to construct muscle are household, friends and the media.🏋️♂️Nagata estimated {that a} third of teenage boys within the U.S. attempt to bulk up. Nevertheless, the lack of knowledge of the situation makes it tougher to pin down what number of develop bigorexia.
3 issues to know earlier than you go

This screengrab from video offered by NASA TV exhibits the SpaceX Dragon capsule departing from the Worldwide Area Station shortly after undocking with 4 NASA Crew-11 members inside on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.
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NASA’s Crew-11 splashed down within the Pacific Ocean off San Diego of their SpaceX Dragon capsule after a virtually 10-hour journey from the Worldwide Area Station, finishing the primary medical evacuation from the orbiting lab.Let Freedom Ring, an annual signature live performance celebrating the lifetime of Martin Luther King Jr., is shifting from the Kennedy Middle to the Howard Theatre to economize.This week’s Far-Flung Postcard takes you to the Hospitaller Fortress in Acre, Israel. NPR’s Michele Kelemen says as you wander by means of its underground tunnels and halls, projected lights show shifting photos of the Knights Hospitaller marching in a funeral procession.
This text was edited by Yvonne Dennis.














