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This year, instead of crops, 34 million acres of American farmland will produce tall grass, pheasants and ducks. That's thanks to the CRP, a USDA program to protect soil, streams and wildlife habitat on farms that accounts for about 8 percent of all farm subsidies in 2005.

New figures from the Census Bureau show that Hispanics accounted for about half the population growth in the U.S. last year. Births have now overtaken immigration this decade as the largest source of Hispanic growth. One region where the trend is well illustrated is Cook County, including Chicago.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, about his experience working for CEO Elon Musk.

The seven states that share the Colorado River are moving forward in the face of cutbacks announced Tuesday.

The Israeli military says it is highly likely that one of its soldiers was responsible for the bullet that killed the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May.

Waste, fraud and abuse of federal money have occurred during the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. A Senate committee heard testimony Wednesday about rent subsidies going to people living in free trailers, and homeowners who claimed the same property damage for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Robert Mahoney of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which released a new report showing the faces of 20 journalists killed by Israeli military fire since 2001.

Robert Wayne Lee, known online as "Boopac Shakur," was killed during an argument in a Michigan restaurant. So far, there is no evidence the confrontation was a planned sting by Lee, police said.

The Biden administration is cracking down on for-profit college programs that don't adequately prepare graduates for gainful employment and leave them with unaffordable loans.

Prosecutors say at the same time that Linwei Ding was working for Google and stealing the building blocks of its AI technology, he was also secretly employed by two China-based tech companies.