Huckabee Says U.S.-Backed Aid Sites in Gaza Will ‘Scale Up’
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will soon operate 16 distribution sites instead of four, said Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel.
Strict new rules for Botox, fillers and Brazilian butt lifts
The government plans to crack down on dodgy cosmetic practitioners in England who exploit people and cause harm.
More teens to get their choice of uni even if they miss their grades, says Ucas
A record number of 18-year-olds will get into their first choice, even if they miss their grades.
Claire’s, the ear-piercing tween mall staple, is bankrupt — again
The chain’s bankruptcy filing is the second in seven years. Its troubles include unwieldy debt, shoppers’ changing habits and new tariff costs. (Image credit: Seth Wenig)
The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot
There’s a fresh push to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent diseases and enhance characteristics that parents value. Bioethicists say just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it should be done. (Image credit: VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS)
Journalist says greed, nihilism and transnationalism are fueling Sudan’s conflict
Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic‘s Anne Applebaum writes about the scale of destruction in her article, “The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth.”
Alleged gunman at Army’s Fort Stewart was a sergeant who shot 5 coworkers
The Army identified the alleged gunman as Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who worked in automated logistics. The victims were Radford’s coworkers and he used a personal handgun, the Army added. (Image credit: Russ Bynum)
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.’s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
The Trump administration canceled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say. (Image credit: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg)
A Texas Republican state lawmaker on the fight for redistricting
Texas Republican Tom Oliverson about what’s next in the redistricting fight that is going down in the Lone Star state. (Image credit: Rodolfo Gonzalez)
Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans’ public defender system
In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse. The court system collapsed in the aftermath of the storm. Katrina caused horrific destruction in New Orleans. It threw incarcerated people into a sort of purgatory – some were lost in prisons for more than a year. But the storm also cleared the way for changes that the city’s public defender system had needed for decades. Two decades later, Shapiro returns to New Orleans and finds a system vastly improved. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org. (Image credit: Claire Harbage)