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Special Coverage: Hassan Nasrallah Is Dead. What's Next For The Middle East?

Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah — who led Hezbollah for more than 30 years — has been met with mixed reactions in the region. In Israel, there have been celebrations, even as people prepare for the possibility of retaliation. In Ramallah, in the West Bank, streets filled with Palestinians chanting promises to continue resistance against Israel. Nasrallah's death raises questions about who will fill a power void at the top of what the US considers a terrorist organization.

Special Coverage: Hassan Nasrallah Is Dead. What's Next For The Middle East?

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BONUS: Trump's Return To The White House

In this bonus episode, Up First co-hosts Leila Fadel and A Martinez break down what's behind President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House with the day's reporters, political strategists and analysts.

BONUS: Trump's Return To The White House

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BONUS: Biden's Speech At White House, Trump's Victory, Administration Transition

In this bonus episode, Up First co-hosts Leila Fadel and A Martinez break down the latest analysis of the election results and what's ahead for the next Trump administration with the day's reporters, experts and analysts.

BONUS: Biden's Speech At White House, Trump's Victory, Administration Transition

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BONUS: "We, The Voters" Swing State Debrief

This bonus episode features Up First co-hosts Steve Inskeep, Michel Martin, Leila Fadel and A Martinez. In the closing days of the election they get together to talk about their biggest takeaways from the voters they spoke with in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada – swing states that could decide the election.

BONUS: "We, The Voters" Swing State Debrief

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BONUS: Trump's Day One Promises

The Up First co-hosts spent the week diving into some the promises President-elect Donald Trump has made for his return to the White House. From a pledge to pardon January 6th rioters and start mass deportations to a commitment to close the Department of Education, increase fossil fuel production, and roll-back protections for transgender people.

BONUS: Trump's Day One Promises

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Barbara's book Bringing Ben Home, a Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice. Barbara Bradley Hagerty hide caption

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The Luckiest of the Unlucky

In part two of our story about Ben Spencer, a man sentenced to life in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, former NPR correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty begins her own investigation. She returns to the scene of the crime and reinterviews witnesses. Hagerty finds new evidence of Spencer's innocence. And yet, the courts refuse to release him.

The Luckiest of the Unlucky

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Trump Wants Powell Out, Administration Risks Contempt, and Homegrowns Are Next

President Trump is feuding with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. This all comes as Americans are feeling gloomier about the economy. Also, a judge found probable cause to find the government in criminal contempt, ruling that the Trump administration willfully disregarded an order to turn back airplanes carrying deported migrants to El Salvador, and President Trump says he is looking into whether the U.S. can detain citizens who commit crimes in overseas prisons.

Trump Wants Powell Out, Administration Risks Contempt, and Homegrowns Are Next

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Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

A federal judge in Maryland questioned the Trump administration about its continued refusal to retrieve a mistakenly deported man from an El Salvador prison, President Trump signed an executive action that aims to lower drug prices for Americans, and the President threatened to remove Harvard's tax exempt status.

Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues

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Wrongly Deported, DOGE And Agency Data, Harvard Defies The White House

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says he has no plans to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, an NPR report details unusual data events at the National Labor Relations Board, and Harvard University says that it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration.

Wrongly Deported, DOGE And Agency Data, Harvard Defies The White House

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China Tariffs, El Salvador President In DC, Meta Antitrust Trial

China calls new U.S. tariff exemptions a "small step", but urges President Trump to heed rational voices and abolish all reciprocal tariffs, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele visits Washington to meet President Trump and discuss El Salvador's role in locking up deportees, and Meta's antitrust case begins.

China Tariffs, El Salvador President In DC, Meta Antitrust Trial

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