{"topic":"us_news","count":30,"items":[{"title":"Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/g-s1-138969/trump-exercises-south-korea","summary":"President Trump explained the decision by saying South Korea had declined to help with the \"denuclearization\" of Iran and he cited his good relationship with North Korea's leader.","time":"Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:21:39 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Multiple people dead as flooding continues in Indiana","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5934670/indiana-flooding-deaths","summary":"Some parts of Indiana received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days, beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods. Several suburbs of Indianapolis also underwater.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:38:40 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Kushner meets with Hamas on the Gaza road map ahead of talks with Netanyahu","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/g-s1-138948/kushner-gaza-hamas-netanyahu-egypt-talks","summary":"Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas leadership Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:20:22 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dies at 83","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/g-s1-138941/tommy-john-elbow-surgery-baseball-pitcher-yankees-dodgers","summary":"The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:58:25 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5933052/sicily-art-heist-museum-parma","summary":"On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:27:54 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/g-s1-138926/lala-tropical-storm-hawaii-hurricane","summary":"Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:47:58 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"What really happened in Ceuta? Why we may never find out","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5927053/what-happened-in-ceuta","summary":"Hundreds of migrants have again attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. This time, Moroccan officials fended them off, raising new questions about the crossing of July 30.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:38:22 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"'What are we going to do?' The mom of a trans teen grapples with Trump's Medicaid move","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5932491/transgender-health-care-medicaid-trump-oz","summary":"A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:54:19 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5933006/ukraine-aerial-attack-6-dead-russia","summary":"Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:12:09 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"NPR Senior Podcast Challenge: Official Rules","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/16/nx-s1-5929441/npr-senior-podcast-challenge-official-rules","summary":"","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:00:00 -0400","source":"NPR"},{"title":"Trump tells Hegseth to cut back U.S.-South Korea drills","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/trump-us-south-korea-military-drills-cut","summary":"

President Trump said Sunday he instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to \"substantially reduce\" U.S. military e","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:59:59 +0000","source":"Axios"},{"title":"How AOC is rewriting her own \"Woke 1\" history","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/aoc-walk-back-positions-2028","summary":"

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is laughing off \"Woke 1.\" But she's carrying baggage from the 2020 era of cul","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:40:09 +0000","source":"Axios"},{"title":"Inside Kushner's Hamas meeting: What comes next in Gaza","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/kushner-hamas-gaza-disarmament-egypt-israel","summary":"

Hamas leaders reaffirmed their commitment to disarm and demilitarize Gaza in a meeting with President Trump's adviser Jared Kushner in Egypt on Sunday, according to a source with direct knowl","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:13:03 +0000","source":"Axios"},{"title":"Trump's views can factor into prosecutions, Attorney General Todd Blanche says","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/todd-blanche-doj-independence-trump","summary":"

Attorney General Todd Blanche refused Sunday to pledge the Justice Department's independence from the White House, saying he would consider President Trump's views on individual prosecutio","time":"Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:38:33 +0000","source":"Axios"},{"title":"How AI could bring Mayo-quality health care to everyone","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/ai-mayo-clinic-health-care-fix-jim-vandehei","summary":"

My wife, Autumn, has spent nearly a quarter of the past four years in ERs and hospitals, untangling and battling three chronic conditions — and a shamefully broken U.S. medical system.