NPR News: 05-27-2025 5PM EDT
NPR News Now
NPR
4.2 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | A lot has changed in higher education since President Trump took office. |
| 0:04.3 | Everything that's been going on has kind of changed my life plans. |
| 0:07.8 | Students have come to me and just they feel really scared. |
| 0:11.1 | On the Sunday story, how members of the class of 2025 are feeling about the state of higher ed and their own futures. |
| 0:19.0 | Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.8 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The United Nations says there have been |
| 0:32.0 | heartbreaking scenes in Gaza, where Palestinians are swarming an aid site set up by a U.S.-backed private foundation. |
| 0:39.6 | NBORS. Michelle Kellerman reports the UN is not taking part in the new aid project. |
| 0:43.2 | Video showing desperate Palestinians scrambling to get food at new distribution sites are hard to |
| 0:49.0 | watch, says U.N. spokesman Stefan de Sharik. |
| 0:52.1 | For us, humanitarian aid needs to be distributed in a way that is safe |
| 0:57.5 | under principles of independence, impartiality, in the way we've always done it. The way this new group |
| 1:04.1 | is trying to deliver aid does not meet those standards, he says, and that's why the UN is not |
| 1:09.6 | taking part. U.S. State Department spokesperson, |
| 1:12.6 | Tammy Bruce, says Hamas tried to stop the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation from delivering aid, |
| 1:18.4 | but she says the food is starting to flow for the first time in months. Israel had been |
| 1:24.3 | blocking all aid. Michelle Kellerman and NPR News, the State Department. |
| 1:29.1 | President Trump is continuing to target Harvard University. NPR's Windsor Johnson reports he's |
| 1:34.5 | proposing to strip billions of federal funds from Harvard and reroute the money to support trade schools. |
| 1:39.4 | The president has floated a plan to redirect $3 billion in federal grants away from Harvard University, calling |
| 1:45.8 | for the money to be invested in vocational and technical training programs. He described the move |
| 1:51.0 | as a great investment for the U.S. and badly needed. The Trump administration's ongoing disputes |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

