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NPR (Becky Sullivan) - Your cheat sheet to the 26 players on the U.S. World Cup team

The U.S. is opening its 2026 World Cup on Friday evening against Paraguay. For the 26 Americans on the team, this match is the culmination of years of hard work and training.

NPR (Scott Horsley) - Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?

Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

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NPR (Russell Lewis) - Referees at the World Cup have new rules to whistle during games

FIFA has introduced several changes to the laws of soccer for the World Cup. These include efforts to eliminate time-wasting and to ensure potentially game-changing officiating mistakes are corrected.

NPR (Alina Selyukh) - How small-business loans got caught in Trump's immigration crackdown

For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.

NPR (Holly J. Morris) - Which billionaire said they learned a 'significant lesson' this week? The quiz knows

This week, Knicks fans had a big win after a big loss; fans of inflation were delighted and World Cup fans went broke. How will quiz fans fare?

NPR (Lauren Frayer) - She waited decades for Scotland to make the World Cup. At 93, she'll be cheering in person

Moira Brown, perhaps the oldest of Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans, will be in Boston when Scotland's team plays against Haiti on June 13. "I'm the luckiest person in this world," she says.

AMERICANTHINKER - The Hollow Laurels Of Angela Merkel

Photo Credit:Józef Brandt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain After resisting the military invasions of the Caliphate for centuries, Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, decided to open its borders wide to migrants with entrenched supremacist beliefs.

AMERICANTHINKER - Lessons From The California 2026 Primary

ChatGPT There is a way to turn things around in California...just not right now, and not as fast as I would like.

AMERICANTHINKER - The U.S., Israel, and the Traditional Family

Easy-Peasy AI Can the U.S. and Israel also team up to win the equally important culture war that seeks to destroy the traditional family?