Pope Leo's Brother Is 'Stunned,' and Bill Gates Speeds Up Giving

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Who Is Pope Leo XIV?, by Elisabetta Povoledo, Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola, Motoko Rich and Elizabeth Dias

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week, by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and John Eligon

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal to Build on Close Ties but Leave Some Tariffs in Place, by Ana Swanson and Jonathan Swan

Leader of FEMA Is Dismissed as Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Agency, by Christopher Flavelle

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress, by Tim Balk

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation, by David Wallace-Wells

Netflix Overhauls Its Home Screen for the First Time in 12 Years, by John Koblin

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Plus, a Friday news quiz. 

On Today’s Episode:

Who Is Pope Leo XIV?, by Elisabetta Povoledo, Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola, Motoko Rich and Elizabeth Dias

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week, by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and John Eligon

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal to Build on Close Ties but Leave Some Tariffs in Place, by Ana Swanson and Jonathan Swan

Leader of FEMA Is Dismissed as Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Agency, by Christopher Flavelle

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress, by Tim Balk

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation, by David Wallace-Wells

Netflix Overhauls Its Home Screen for the First Time in 12 Years, by John Koblin

Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. 

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Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.


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2025-05-09 13 min
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