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Have you ever thought about leaving the US Starting over somewhere new? Well, I have. And according to one poll, 40% of young women said they'd move to another country permanently if they had the chance.
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But why?
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Where to start?
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Listen to the It's Been a Minute podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The FBI searched a Washington Post journalist's home this morning. It was court authorized. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. The search was part of a government investigation into whether classified information was leaked.
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The FBI searched the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natenson, who has been one of the newspaper's lead reporters on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the federal workforce. In a post on social media, Attorney General Pam Bondi did not identify Natenson by name, but said the FBI executed the search warrant at the home of a Washington Post reporter who was receiving classified information from a Pentagon contractor. The FBI search sparked immediate concern among First Amendment advocates. The president of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Bruce Brown, called the search, quote, a tremendous escalation in the administration's intrusions into the independence of the press. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
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The State Department says it is putting a hold on visa applications linked to 75 countries where the administration says the citizens are likely to depend on public assistance while living in the US it is still unclear which countries are targeted. The suspension is expected to begin in a week. A U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly confirms with NPR that some American military personnel are leaving the Al Udeid air base in Qatar. Also, the Qatari government said in a social media statement evacuations of some personnel, quote, are being undertaken in response to the current regional tensions, end quote. The special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, says the US Brokered ceasefire plan for Gaza is moving into the next phase, demilitarizing Gaza, establishing a technocratic government and rebuilding. His post on X today says Hamas must immediately return the final deceased hostage and fully comply with the agreement. Hamas accuses Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire. The president of Poland says President Trump is the only global leader capable of standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The comment coming during a trip to the U.K. here's NPR's Lauren Freyr.
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Polish President Karl Noski told the BBC he thinks Trump is the only leader capable of stopping the Russian president and his ongoing war in Ukraine.
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It means that we have to do everything to support Donald Trump to solve this problem. This is most important thing. And you know, I trust myself.
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Navroski says the U.S. president has, quote, unique authority and leverage to bring Moscow to the negotiating table. The Polish president is a far right historian, amateur boxer and longtime supporter of Trump. He says he sees Europe detaching itself from Washington and disapproves, adding that he believes the US Is still the guarantor of Europe's security. Lauren Frayer, NPR News, London.
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The dow is down 257 points. It's NPR News. A space crew is preparing to return home in a matter of hours. Their craft scheduled to undock from the International Space Station launch later today and splash down off California's coast early in the morning. NPR's Nell Greenfield Boyce reports. It's the first time NASA's cut short an ISS mission for medical reasons.
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NASA officials have stressed that the unidentified astronaut is stable, but say they need to do the kind of full diagnostic workup that's only possible on the ground. In a video beamed down from the station earlier this week, everyone on board spoke on camera and and none appeared obviously ill. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
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Hospitals in North Carolina have taken steps to erase $6.5 billion in patient medical debt dating back to 2014. Alex Olgan reports the debt was wiped out under an agreement between the hospitals and the state.
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Two and a half million North Carolinians got a surprise last year. Their medical debt was erased. 60 year old Dawn Daly Mack says when she received the letter for a $459 emergency room visit, she was in disbelief.
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I opened it up and it said, your medical bill has been paid. You know, I didn't believe it.
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It was all part of a deal the state's 99 hospitals agreed to in exchange for a boost in Medicaid dollars. They also pledged to automatically discount care for patients who qualify for financial assistance going forward. Several states have stepped up medical debt protections in recent years. Meanwhile, the federal government rolled back plans to keep medical debt off credit reports. For NPR News, I'm Alex Olgan.
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I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.
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