{"id":625571,"date":"2026-05-05T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:34:11","slug":"state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625571\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778016851_86_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/6720x4480+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff2%2F96%2F070fd2f2440782bcfc103a68733a%2Fb067e425-2d81-429c-9ff0-e299e9aa6b83.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                A 36-foot tall statue of Ramses II greets visitors as the enter the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>                    Ahmad Hasaballah\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Ahmad Hasaballah\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>Senior career diplomats at the U.S. State Department are effectively being forced into retirement.  It\u2019s a loss of talent that one former diplomat calls a \u201cunilateral disarmament\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And we visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo, which was more than 30 years in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-foot tall statue of Ramses II greets visitors as the enter the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-625571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}