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NPR News: 07-20-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

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0:00.0

It's rare to find a podcast that can actually change your life.

0:03.8

But when the show is called Life Kit, that's kind of the whole point.

0:07.9

I'm Mariel Segarra.

0:09.1

Three times a week on the Life Kit podcast, we guide you through a topic we could all use help with,

0:13.6

from personal development to healthy living to managing your dinero,

0:17.0

with takeaways so you can start living what you learn right away.

0:21.2

Escucha El Life Kit podcast from NPR.

0:24.7

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

0:29.2

Lawyers for Harvard and the Trump administration will be in court in Boston tomorrow

0:33.6

over the government's cancellation of more than $2 billion in federal funding for the school.

0:39.7

Emily Piper Villillo of Member Station WBUR has more.

0:43.0

Over 900 Harvard University studies now hang in the balance.

0:48.1

After the White House yanked funding earlier this year, saying Harvard permitted anti-Semitism on campus.

0:54.5

Harvard says the administration's actions unlawfully retaliate against the university

0:59.3

for rejecting the White House's demands over what it can teach, as well as who it can

1:04.7

admit and hire. Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman says the stakes extend far beyond Harvard.

1:11.2

If a university with a multi-billion dollar endowment can be cowed and pushed around by the

1:16.4

government so that it loses its free speech rights, it's a lot easier to stop you personally

1:21.0

from exercising your free speech rights.

1:22.9

The hearing is expected to last one day.

1:25.2

For NPR News, I'm Emily Piper Vallillo in Boston. Russia says it's still

1:30.0

eager for a peace deal with Ukraine once it achieves its political and military objectives. This after

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