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McConnell Warns Of 'Scary Prospect' If GOP Loses Senate Control In Midterms

By • 23 hours ago

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a message for Republican voters who are celebrating the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: Get to the polls in November if you want more conservatives sitting on judicial benches.

Does The New GOP Strategy Include 'Angry Mob' Talking Points?

By editor • 23 hours ago

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OK, let's go back to that moment when two women confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator on Capitol Hill about the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

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Disappearance Of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Is Straining U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relations

By • Oct 11, 2018

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OK, let's go back to that moment when two women confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator on Capitol Hill about the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

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Why Saudi Arabia's Government Felt Threatened By Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

By editor • Oct 11, 2018

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U.S. And Russian Astronauts Safe Following Rocket Malfunction After Launch

By editor • Oct 11, 2018

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A Look At Why Stocks Plunged On Wall Street

By • Oct 10, 2018

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Stocks plunged on Wall Street today. U.S. stocks saw their biggest sell-off in six months. The Dow fell 831 points, which is a 3 percent decline. Here to talk about exactly what happened is NPR's John Ydstie. Hey, John.

JOHN YDSTIE, BYLINE: Hi, Ailsa.

In '22 July' Filmmaker Paul Greengrass Tells The Story Of Terrorist Attack In Norway

By • Oct 10, 2018

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Stocks plunged on Wall Street today. U.S. stocks saw their biggest sell-off in six months. The Dow fell 831 points, which is a 3 percent decline. Here to talk about exactly what happened is NPR's John Ydstie. Hey, John.

Industry 4.0 And The Challenges That Come With It

By editor • Oct 10, 2018

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Stocks plunged on Wall Street today. U.S. stocks saw their biggest sell-off in six months. The Dow fell 831 points, which is a 3 percent decline. Here to talk about exactly what happened is NPR's John Ydstie. Hey, John.

The Latest On The Disappearance And Suspected Killing Of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

By editor • Oct 10, 2018

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German Police Arrest Suspect In Rape And Killing Of Bulgarian TV Journalist

By • Oct 10, 2018

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Why People Take A Gamble On Mother Nature With Catastrophe Bonds

By • Oct 10, 2018

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Mayor Of New Bern, N.C., Discusses How The Town Is Preparing For Hurricane Michael

By editor • Oct 10, 2018

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Wyoming Proposes Its Own Methane Regulations As Federal Level Sees Rules Relaxed

By editor • Oct 10, 2018

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How To Prevent Brain-Sapping Delirium In The ICU

By • Oct 10, 2018

If you are one of the 5.7 million Americans who ends up in the intensive care unit each year, you are at high risk of developing long-term mental effects like dementia and confusion. These mental problems can be as pronounced as those experienced by people with Alzheimer's disease or a traumatic brain injury and many patients never fully recover.

Instrument-Makers Learn A Long-Overdue Lesson: It Isn't Just Men Playing Guitar

By editor • Oct 10, 2018

When Sadie Dupuis, the lead singer and songwriter of Speedy Ortiz, started playing guitar in her early teens, she didn't think of herself as a female guitarist — at least at first.

"I knew that I was the only girl in my high school who played. But it wasn't until I started touring as an adult and seeing how few women were on bills that it started to really matter to me that I was a woman who could play technically challenging parts," Dupuis says.

The Disappearance Of Saudi Journalist And Dissident Jamal Khashoggi

By editor • Oct 9, 2018

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Goodbye, Google+ — We Forgot You Existed

By editor • Oct 9, 2018

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This week, Google disclosed a data breach, one that potentially affected hundreds of thousands of users. It was on the company's social media platform Google+.

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Former WH Communications Director Hope Hicks Lands Job At Fox

By • Oct 9, 2018

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Amid #MeToo, New York Employers Face Strict New Sexual Harassment Laws

By editor • Oct 9, 2018

It's been a year since the The New York Times ran an exposé alleging sexual harassment by Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein. That led to an outpouring of allegations as others spoke out, leading to the downfall of many leaders and executives, including top news editors at NPR.

Longtime Archivists Outline What They've Learned From Watching Decades Of News

By editor • Oct 9, 2018

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For 50 years, an archive in Nashville has meticulously recorded the national evening news.

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Nikki Haley Resigns As U.N. Ambassador, Sparking Speculation About Her Next Move

By • Oct 9, 2018

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What It Would Take To Avert The Dire Situation Described In The U.N. Climate Report

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

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A new climate report commissioned by the United Nations paints a pretty dire picture for the year 2040 - high food shortages, wildfires, droughts, rising sea levels, poverty and massive destruction to coral reefs.

Controversial Candidate In Virginia Senate Race Could Affect House's Balance Of Power

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

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Taylor Swift Publicly Enters The Political World With Endorsement For Democrats

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

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The Rise Of The LA Philharmonic To 'America's Most Important Orchestra'

By • Oct 8, 2018

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's yearlong centennial celebration kicked off at the end of September, with a day-long street festival that spanned eight miles across the city.

How Good — And How Secure — Is Facial Recognition Technology?

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

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It's time now for All Tech Considered.

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Philadelphia Plans To Open Medically-Supervised Injection Facility

By • Oct 8, 2018

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The View From Istanbul On Missing Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

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'The Hate U Give' Creators Tell Their Story Through A 16-Year-Old Black Girl

By editor • Oct 8, 2018

The Hate U Give tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Starr Carter. She lives in a mostly black, lower-income neighborhood called Garden Heights. Williamson Prep, her high school, is in a mostly white, affluent part of town.

But Starr can't keep her two worlds separate after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil.

A New Chinese-Funded Railway In Kenya Sparks Debt-Trap Fears

By • Oct 8, 2018

The Standard Gauge Railway station in Nairobi is easily the most impressive public building in Kenya.

While a lot of Kenyan government buildings are drab and functional and date back to colonial days, this station is adventurous. It's all gray and modern. Geometric shapes form an abstract locomotive, and red neon announces the "Nairobi Terminus."

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