Soldiers rehearse prior to the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square on September 03, 2025, in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China holds a military parade that is about more that commemorating the end
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Tourists gather at a parking lot in the center of Berlin, Germany. Greg Rosalsky/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg Rosalsky/NPR This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If
Soldiers rehearse prior to the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square on September 03, 2025, in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China holds a military parade that is about more that commemorating the end
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A bipartisan group of Congress members are trying today to force a vote to make the Trump administration release more of the
Tourists gather at a parking lot in the center of Berlin, Germany. Greg Rosalsky/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg Rosalsky/NPR This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If
President Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans the administration says are gang members, likely setting up a legal clash at
China's President Xi Jinping, center, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, arrive at a reception in the Great Hall of the People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025. JADE
Soldiers rehearse prior to the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square on September 03, 2025, in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China holds a military parade that is about more that commemorating the end
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A bipartisan group of Congress members are trying today to force a vote to make the Trump administration release more of the
Tourists gather at a parking lot in the center of Berlin, Germany. Greg Rosalsky/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg Rosalsky/NPR This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If
President Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans the administration says are gang members, likely setting up a legal clash at
China's President Xi Jinping, center, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, arrive at a reception in the Great Hall of the People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025. JADE
The USS Sampson, a U.S. Navy missile destroyer, docks in Panama City, Panama, on Sept. 2. The deployment comes amid a broader U.S. Naval presence in Caribbean waters following President Donald Trump's order last month to take action against Latin American drug cartels. Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu/via Getty hide caption toggle caption Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu/via Getty Tensions between
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 14, 2025. Salvador Melendez/AP hide caption toggle caption Salvador Melendez/AP SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and
A general view shows shipping containers at the port in Keelung on Aug. 1 I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has issued updated tariff rates, listing more than 65 countries plus the European Union. Some of the rates reflect what was shared in earlier "letters"
Enlarge this image Workers harvest coffee on a farm in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, April 4, 2025. Andre Penner/AP hide caption toggle caption Andre Penner/AP Workers harvest coffee on a farm in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, April 4, 2025. Andre Penner/AP The threat of 50% US tariffs on some goods have Brazilian growers and producers are on
Former UFC fighter Conor McGregor speaks in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 17. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — The mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor — who's from Ireland and visited
A man works in a steel distribution factory in Monterrey in northern Mexico in May 2018. Mexico announced sweeping retaliatory tariffs on a host of U.S. goods Thursday after the United States slapped steep tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico, Canada and the European Union. Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle
Druze wait near the border fence in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, as Syrian Druze who'd crossed over the day before return to Syria following days of sectarian bloodshed in the southern Syrian region of Sweida, July 17. JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images
Oil tanker trucks sit outside an oil refinery operated by Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. in Mumbai, India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images NEW DELHI — President Trump has announced new tariffs on India, but warned India there is more to come as punishment for buying fuel
Canada Foreign Minister Anita Anand addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, July 28, 2025. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP UNITED NATIONS — Canada and Malta announced Wednesday they will recognize the state of Palestine in September, joining France and the United Kingdom in stepping up pressure to end the nearly 80-year
Soldiers rehearse prior to the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square on September 03, 2025, in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China holds a military parade that is about more that commemorating the end
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories A bipartisan group of Congress members are trying today to force a vote to make the Trump administration release more of the
Tourists gather at a parking lot in the center of Berlin, Germany. Greg Rosalsky/NPR hide caption toggle caption Greg Rosalsky/NPR This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If
President Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans the administration says are gang members, likely setting up a legal clash at
China's President Xi Jinping, center, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, arrive at a reception in the Great Hall of the People, following a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2025. JADE
