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201 | When South Korea’s mountain town of PyeongChang hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year, a white tiger and a black bear, respectively, will serve as mascots. They’ve been introduced as cuddly icons of Korean history and folklore. ”They are so cute and adorable, so I’m sure that you’re gonna fall in love... |
202 | Outgoing Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro’s office overlooks a stretch of the Washington, D. C. waterfront where several apartment buildings are being built, in a city where affordable housing is in short supply and homelessness is a big problem. These are some of the same issues hi... |
203 | Though the great outdoors becomes more inhospitable when winter winds rise and temperatures drop, there’s nothing like wandering through an evergreen forest as snow squeaks underfoot. And once people have trudged stiffly back inside, they can keep those forests with them by imbibing one of the world’s many pine liqueur... |
204 | Updated at 6:55 p. m. ET, A jury has sentenced to death the man who murdered nine people in a Charleston church basement in 2015. The twelve jurors deliberated for about three hours before sentencing Dylann Roof, 22, to die. To impose the death penalty, they had to reach a unanimous decision. It is the same jury that f... |
205 | Dylann Roof murdered nine people in a church basement in Charleston in 2015. He confessed to the massacre shortly after he was arrested. He didn’t testify at trial and no witnesses were called on his behalf before he was convicted of federal hate crimes. The most emphatic statements on Roof’s behalf came from defense a... |
206 | Donald Trump met Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. an environmental activist and known skeptic of childhood vaccinations. Kennedy has been a prominent voice in the community, raising questions for years about a possible (disproven) link between a preservative in some vaccines and autism. Kennedy spoke to reporters a... |
207 | In giving his farewell address on Tuesday night in Chicago, President Obama will follow a tradition begun by America’s first president. George Washington offered a series of warnings, what he called a ”solemn contemplation.” His parting words have been deemed so valuable that they are read on the floor of the U. S. Sen... |
208 | President Obama will address the nation for what’s likely to be the last time Tuesday night. He says the address from his adopted hometown of Chicago will be a chance to celebrate the successes of the past eight years and to offer some thoughts on where the nation goes from here. The celebration could be . While Oba... |
209 | This post was updated at 1:15 pm ET. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions says he’s not a racist and that he’s been unfairly ”caricatured.” ”You have a Southern name you come from South Alabama, that sounds worse to some people,” Sessions said during the first day of his confirmation hearings to be the next attorney general of t... |
210 | The confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, the billionaire philanthropist who is Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of education, has been delayed for almost a week. DeVos’ hearing was scheduled for Wednesday, but late on Monday night, the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions announced it had been ... |
211 | The tiny village of Newtok near Alaska’s western coast has been sliding into the Ninglick River for years. As temperatures increase — faster there than in the rest of the U. S. — the frozen permafrost underneath Newtok is thawing. About 70 feet of land a year erode away, putting the village’s colorful buildings, ... |
212 | West Coast crab fishermen just ended an strike over a price dispute. But a more ominous and threat to their livelihood may be on the horizon. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found a link between warming ocean conditions and a dangerous neurotoxin that builds up in sea life: do... |
213 | Russia’s intelligence agencies compromised the networks of some Republicans and their affiliated organizations, but not the current Republican National Committee or the campaign of Donald Trump, top U. S. intelligence chiefs said Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey and... |
214 | Hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to an rescue operation of a deer hopelessly stuck on ice in Simsbury, Conn. The scared deer splayed on the frozen river was streamed live by several television channels on Monday, in some cases for more than three hours, as rescue workers tried to get it to safety. You can wat... |
215 | Recently, NPR brought you the story of one of 2016’s most successful musicians: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Last year, the Universal Music Group released a box set of the composer’s works. Multiply that by the sets sold worldwide as of early December, and you had 1. 25 million CDs. And that, we said, had given Mozart ... |
216 | President Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago is often the stage for pivotal moments in his career. He claimed victory in Chicago in 2008 and again in 2012. And it’s where he will give his farewell address on Tuesday night. Many Chicagoans use the word ”pride” when talking about Barack Obama. You can hear it in their v... |
217 | When Barack Obama makes his farewell address Tuesday night, it will be one of the last times we’ll hear from the president, while he’s still actually the president. But before his political career, Obama was a community organizer in Chicago, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and the state director of ... |
218 | One of the most fragile pieces of President Obama’s legacy in the aftermath of the 2016 election is the Affordable Care Act. Republicans ran on their pledge to repeal it, and we’ll know soon whether — as promised — they make it their top priority in the new Congress, even without having released details on what... |
219 | Abra and Matt Schultz, both 32, recently built a house in a neighborhood in Pottsville, Pa. Matt works as a carpenter foreman for a construction company. He and Abra, his wife, are right in Trump’s wheelhouse — Republicans in Republican Schuylkill County. The couple spent December trying to decide whether to buy h... |
220 | Clare Hollingworth, the war correspondent who told the world of the outbreak of World War II, has died at 105. She died Tuesday evening in Hong Kong, according to friend Cathy Hilborn Feng, who says Hollingworth ”had a smile before she left us.” Hollingworth was a rookie reporter when she landed the scoop of a centur... |
221 | Scientists have found the inspiration for a lifesaving tool in an unusual place — a children’s toy. The invention may soon help health care workers diagnose malaria in places where standard laboratory equipment is hard to find. Diagnosing malaria in the field isn’t all that difficult, but you need a device called a ... |
222 | In 1889, Bethlehem Steel brought engineer Frederick Taylor on board in an attempt to streamline its vast operation. Taylor had recently invented a theory of ”time management” in which the same principles used to optimize machines was applied to people. Taylor stalked the floors of the Bethlehem plant armed with a stopw... |
223 | Iran’s former president, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was buried Tuesday, and the large outpouring of grief at his funeral reflects the uncertainty facing Iranian moderates. Rafsanjani may have risen along with the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U. S. shah, but in later years, his pragma... |
224 | Over the weekend and into Monday morning, a powerful storm in Nevada and Northern California resulted in mudslides and flooding, caused more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes, took out power lines and brought down a famous sequoia ”tunnel tree.” That storm is over, but residents can’t relax yet: Starting o... |
225 | Sylvana Simons got her start as a soul music VJ on the Dutch version of MTV. She went on to anchor the evening news in the Netherlands, and performed on the local version of Dancing with the Stars. Simons, 45, is black and was born in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, in South America. Her family moved to the Nether... |
226 | The online classified website Backpage. com said it has suspended its adult ad pages, citing government pressure about the content being shared there. A 2016 Senate report called the website the ”largest commercial sex services advertising platform in the United States” and said that ”Backpage officials have publicly a... |
227 | Marketplace officials calculate a customer’s subsidy, so why is the customer held responsible for repayments? Why are so many of my prescriptions held up for authorization by my Medicare drug plan? Here are answers to some recent questions from readers. When I applied on the exchange for health insurance I had to predi... |
228 | NPR’s YouTube channel, Skunk Bear, answers your science questions. This week, we picked one in honor of David Bowie. Bowie was born on Jan. 8 and would have turned 70 on Sunday. Tuesday, Jan. 10, marks the first anniversary of his death. Bowie filled his songs with references to space, and his first big hit, ”Space Odd... |
229 | Things were already going pretty badly for Florence Manyande. Then one day last spring, while walking down the street, she was hit by a car. ”This woman saw, and she pulled me out of the road.” recalls Manyande, 50. ”She tried to talk to me, but I couldn’t talk then. I had a lot on my mind.” Her run of bad luck had beg... |
230 | It’s still unclear whether Verizon will follow through on a $4. 8 billion deal to buy Yahoo’s core internet business, but if the sale is finalized, there’s a name for what will be left behind. For months, as the deal has made its way through negotiations and regulatory reviews, Yahoo referred to the hypothetical remain... |
231 | Eduardo made a mistake 10 days before he turned 18 in New York City. ”Basically every single day, I relive that moment,” says Eduardo, who is now 32 and still regularly passes by the spot where he was arrested for the first and only time in his life. Police caught him selling cocaine on the sidewalk next to the apartme... |
232 | This has been updated at 10:00 pm ET with Clapper statement, Donald Trump denounced as ”fake news” Wednesday reports that Russia had compromising information about him before the election. He also acknowledged for the first time that Russia was behind the hacking of emails from the Democratic National Committee, alth... |
233 | For the first time in 167 days, Donald Trump held a news conference. NPR’s politics team, with help from reporters and editors across the newsroom, the speech. Portions of the transcript with added analysis are underlined in yellow, followed by context and fact checks below. Note: The transcript was updated throu... |
234 | Out of nowhere, a shocking video appeared on a Russian TV news program late one evening in March 1999. A surveillance tape showed a naked, man who resembled Russia’s top prosecutor, Yuri Skuratov, cavorting with two unclothed young women. Neither was his wife. The ensuing scandal included a press conference by the he... |
235 | Updated at 9:24 a. m. ET on Wednesday, Top U. S. intelligence officials have briefed leaders in Washington about an explosive — but unverified — document that alleges collusion between Russia and Donald Trump, NPR has learned. The brief, which NPR has seen but not independently verified, was given by Senate Arm... |
236 | A federal judge in South Carolina formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death on Wednesday, one day after a jury recommended that he be executed for murdering nine people in a Charleston church. Under federal sentencing laws, the death penalty can be imposed only if all 12 jurors agree on it, and the judge cannot overrule ... |
237 | Alt. Latino’s corner of the Latin music world gets better and better every year: The music continually explodes any idea of genre restrictions and constantly surprises. And it looks like 2017 is not going to disappoint. On this week’s show, we’ve got previews of stunning new records from familiar names (Cafe Tacvba, Da... |
238 | Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson had a tense confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, clashing even with Republican members over his views on Russia, international human rights violations and the lobbying and of Exxon Mobil when he was CEO. The was an unconventional ... |
239 | Update: This post was updated on February 16, 2017, and will continue to be updated as other appointments are made. At a Thursday press conference, Donald Trump named one more person to his list of cabinet nominees: Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law and former member of the N... |
240 | The U. S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a dispute that advocates describe as the most important case involving public school special education in three decades. At issue is whether federal law requires public schools to provide more than the bare minimum in special services for children with disabilitie... |
241 | Colin Ozeki, 17, doesn’t like to sugarcoat how autism spectrum disorder has affected his interactions with others, his emotions and his own . He sees it as an issue to confront, something about himself to work on and improve in order to fully participate in life around him. He appreciates the adage, ”It’s a difference... |
242 | There’s a new jungle Jedi out there. Scientists who discovered a new primate, which lives in eastern Myanmar and southwestern China, are such big Star Wars fans, they named the ape after Luke Skywalker. They also chose the name, skywalker hoolock gibbon, because the Chinese characters mean ”Heaven’s movement,” accordin... |
243 | When Noel Anaya was just a year old, he and his five brothers and sisters were placed in the California foster care system. He has spent nearly all of his life in that system and has just turned 21. In California, that’s the age when people in foster care ”age out” of the system and lose the benefits the system provide... |
244 | The outcome of the Obamacare debate could affect more than you might think, depending on just how the GOP congressional majority pursues its goal. Beyond the Affordable Care Act’s marquee achievements like guaranteeing health coverage for people with conditions and allowing children to stay on parents’ plans until... |
245 | When Donald Trump won the presidential election, he made a pledge to every citizen: that he would be president for all Americans. In the weeks before Trump’s inauguration, we’re going to hear about some of the communities that make up this nation, from the people who know them best, in our series Finding America. Gabri... |
246 | Laura Marling’s latest taste from what may be her best album so far is ”Wild Fire,” a beautiful, breezy reflection on the universal search for identity and purpose. It’s an immediately arresting mix of spare, fluttering percussion and gospel harmonies with gently strummed acoustic guitars. Marling lets the song breathe... |
247 | There’s a charity movement starting to take hold in neighborhoods across the country. Think of those ”little free library” boxes, but with a twist: These are small pantries stocked with free food and personal care items like toothbrushes and diapers for people in need. They’re found near churches, outside businesses ... |
248 | For all of the terrible things that have happened to his city of Jalawla in northern Iraq, Yacub Youssef seems like a happy man. Youssef is the director — essentially the mayor — of this small city just a few miles from Iran and about 90 miles north of Baghdad. ISIS occupied it in 2014, a few days after it took... |
249 | Volkswagen has agreed to pay $4. 3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations over its diesel emissions cheating scheme involving some 590, 000 vehicles in the U. S. The company has also agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts. The settlement amount includes $2. 8 billion in criminal penalties and ... |
250 | In late October, just weeks ahead of the election, Donald Trump made a quick detour to Washington for the official opening of his new hotel, just a few blocks from the White House. During a ceremony, Trump told the crowd that the roughly $200 million renovation project at the historic Old Post Office Building w... |
251 | Sometimes, in the process of recording music, a band’s sweat, calluses and grit go in one end and 0s and 1s come out the other with a sort of sterility that belies the original wild magic. It is difficult, and far more rare, to capture music burning with all the fury, fire and grit that make you fall in love with a liv... |
252 | Democrats don’t have too many opportunities to set the agenda in Congress right now. They don’t decide what bills are called for a vote, and, due to changes in Senate procedures, won’t be able to block any of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks without Republican defections. One thing Democrats can affect are the headlines ... |
253 | Updated at 8 p. m. ET, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, broke with the on many of his key campaign promises on immigration during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, including a border wall, Muslims coming into the U. S. and torture techniques.... |
254 | Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to nominate David Shulkin to be his secretary of veterans affairs, a position that requires Senate confirmation. Shulkin is currently the undersecretary for health at the VA, which means he runs the Veterans Health Administration. He was nominated for that position by Pr... |
255 | It’s been used to buy drugs. Guns. Child porn. And to launder money. But institutions like the World Bank, UNICEF and USAID think it could be a force for good, helping the poorest of the poor. It’s a technology called blockchain — a global, online ledger that’s free for anyone to use and that isn’t regulated by an... |
256 | Italy has been described as the world’s biggest museum. And with illegally excavated antiquities, looting of unguarded, churches and smuggling of precious artworks, it’s also an art theft playground. But thanks to an elite police squad, Italy is also at the forefront in combating the illicit trade in artworks — ... |
257 | It was on a routine patrol in 1986 that Steven McDonald’s life took a dramatic turn. McDonald, who was just two years into his service with the New York Police Department, and his partner confronted a trio of boys in Central Park. Within seconds, one of those teens drew a handgun and shot McDonald three times. That sho... |
258 | ”A Newborn Calf Isn’t Afraid of Tigers” is a typical chapter title in Lotus, Lijia Zhang’s compelling debut novel. Readers will find the entire text rich in Chinese proverbs, as well as folk wisdom of a more prosaic variety. Characters employ sage sayings in spoken form, as a kind of parlor game, and the author scatter... |
259 | In Weathersfield, Vt. a town once dotted with small milking farms, about 60 cows peacefully chew hay at their home on Fuller Farm. They are the last remaining dairy herd in Weathersfield, and they’ll be auctioned off this week. This is a growing trend in the changing dairy industry — in the state and beyond. David F... |
260 | Facebook is unveiling a new journalism project Wednesday. No, the Silicon Valley giant isn’t hiring a team of reporters. Facebook says it wants engineers — the tech talent at local and global publishers — to earlier on to develop technologies that make Facebook a more powerful platform to distribute news and di... |
261 | On campuses today almost every educational interaction leaves digital traces. Assignments and feedback are given through online portals debates and discussions happen via learning management systems as well as in classrooms, cafes and dorm rooms. Those and other digital crumbs give technologists the opportunities to ex... |
262 | President Obama awarded outgoing Vice President Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday afternoon. Calling the former longtime Delaware senator ”the best vice president America’s ever had” and a ”lion of American history,” Obama gave his White House partner the surprise award in an emotional ceremony, initi... |
263 | In the closing weeks of 2016, an explosive document was floating around in media and security circles. Reporters tried, and failed, to verify the claims it contained — that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, and the Kremlin held lurid blackmail material as leverage over Trump. Reporting on the document, which was fi... |
264 | Updated at 4 p. m. ET, The Justice Department’s watchdog has launched a sweeping review of conduct by the FBI director and other department officials before the presidential election, following calls from Congress and members of the public. Top advisers to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton have blamed FBI Director J... |
265 | So far, more than half of all U. S. states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and eight (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized the drug for recreational use. Varieties of cannabis available today are more potent than ever and come in many forms, including oils and leaves that can be vaped, and lots of ed... |
266 | The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Carson, Colo. has begun moving into Poland as part of the biggest U. S. military deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War. It’s part of an Obama administration effort to deter perceived growing Russian aggression in Eastern Europe. The Krem... |
267 | The Affordable Care Act brought the rate of uninsured Americans to a record low 9 percent in 2015. It’s the major achievement of the controversial health care law and one the Obama administration likes to tout whenever it can. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell did just that in an interview with NPR on ... |
268 | At about 1:30 a. m. on Thursday, Republicans moved one step closer to repealing a law they have railed against since the moment it was passed nearly seven years ago. By a final vote of the Senate approved a budget resolution that sets the stage for broad swaths of the Affordable Care Act to be repealed through a proc... |
269 | Tying a knot can be tricky. Just ask any kid struggling with shoelaces. And scientists have it even harder when they try to make knots using tiny molecules. Now, in the journal Science, a team of chemists says it has made a huge advance — manipulating molecules to create the tightest knot ever. ”Historically, knotti... |
270 | It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Mike Sutter, food critic for the San Antonio about his ”365 days of Tacos” series, in which he eats at a different taco joint every day for a year. He’s done it before, in Austin, where he ate more than 1, 600 tacos in 2015. But now he’s moved ... |
271 | Free speech advocates see Trumps’s testy relationship with the media and his tweets reacting to critics as evidence that he is — at best — insensitive to the First Amendment. And they say one recent controversy, the decision by Simon Schuster to publish a book by social media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos,... |
272 | The Environmental Protection Agency said Fiat Chrysler violated the Clean Air Act by allegedly installing and failing to disclose software in some 104, 000 cars and trucks that alters emissions. The automaker was required by law to disclose the software to regulators during the certification process but did not do so, ... |
273 | Among the unusual elements of Donald Trump’s Wednesday news conference was a interlude in which an attorney took the podium and described Trump’s plan to address potential conflicts of interest between his businesses and the responsibilities of his office. The attorney, Sheri Dillon, outlined an arrangement by whic... |
274 | Donald Trump took to Twitter again Thursday morning, this time to urge his followers to ”Buy L. L. Bean,” and support one of his campaign backers. ”Thank you to Linda Bean of L. L. Bean for your great support and courage,” he tweeted Thursday. ”People will support you even more now. Buy L. L. Bean.” The tweet came in... |
275 | At a Wednesday press conference, Donald Trump and his lawyer described the steps the real estate mogul would take to separate from his business empire while in office. It wasn’t nearly enough, according to Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub. ”The president is now entering a world of public service,” Sh... |
276 | After years of hints, shots across the bow and a few gentle suggestions, the Chargers have finally done it: Owner Dean Spanos announced that the NFL team will be leaving San Diego for Los Angeles, starting next season. ”San Diego has been our home for 56 years. It will always be part of our identity, and my family and ... |
277 | A poem written by a Chinese surgeon lamenting the medical effects of smog, called ”I Long to Be King,” is going viral on Chinese social media. Told from the perspective of lung cancer, the poem takes an apocalyptic note: Happiness after sorrow, rainbow after rain. I faced surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, But co... |
278 | Maracanã Stadium has been a fixture of the Rio de Janeiro skyline for decades. Opened just in time to play host to Brazil’s heartbreak in the 1950 World Cup, it underwent massive renovations to host . .. well, more heartbreak for Brazilians in the 2014 World Cup. Now the iconic soccer stadium, which also hosted Brazili... |
279 | A U. S. military investigation has cleared the U. S. forces of wrongdoing in fighting that left 33 civilians dead and 27 others wounded last year in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, saying that they acted in . ”To defend themselves and Afghan forces, U. S. forces returned fire in at Taliban who were using civilian hou... |
280 | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered government agencies to expand access to contraception, especially for poor women. By 2018, he instructs, all poor households in the country should have ”zero unmet need for modern family planning.” Duterte’s executive order, signed Monday and announced on Wednesday, is t... |
281 | A storm system that dumped precipitation on multiple states in the West appears to be easing, but rivers have yet to crest and many communities are still digging out from record snowfall. The Pacific Northwest and Northern California were hit hardest beginning Tuesday, when rain flooded roads and prompted evacuations i... |
282 | Six years ago, Don Cameron, the general manager of Terranova Ranch, southwest of Fresno, Calif. did something that seemed kind of crazy. He went out to a nearby river, which was running high because of recent rains, and he opened an irrigation gate. Water rushed down a canal and flooded hundreds of acres of vineyards ... |
283 | The bustling Paris streets were rutted and caked in thick mud, but there was always a breathtaking sight to behold in the shop windows of Patisserie de la Rue de la Paix. By 1814, people crowded outside the bakery, straining for a glimpse of the latest confection created by the young chef who worked inside. His name wa... |
284 | Mice that kill at the flip of a switch may reveal how hunting behavior evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. The mice became aggressive predators when two sets of neurons in the amygdala were activated with laser light, a team reported Thursday in the journal Cell. ”The animals become very efficient in hunting,” s... |
285 | Once again this year, President Obama hailed the nation’s high school graduation rate as it reached another record high — a whopping 83 percent. ”When I took office almost eight years ago, we knew that our education system was falling short,” he said at a Washington, D. C. high school in October. ”I said, by 2020 I ... |
286 | Where the first day of Jeff Sessions’ attorney general confirmation hearing focused on what the Alabama senator’s relationship would be with the president if confirmed, the second day focused on his own past. Sessions, a former Alabama attorney general, has a reputation for being tough on crime, but civil rights advoca... |
287 | The incoming Trump administration has found a job for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The Trump team announced Thursday that Giuliani will ”be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend” on matters. Giuliani was a surrogate and adviser to Trump during the campaign. He had reportedly been under conside... |
288 | The incoming Trump administration will look to tap private investment funds to help rebuild and expand the nation’s highways, railways, seaports and airports. That’s what Elaine Chao, Donald Trump’s choice to be transportation secretary, told a panel of senators in a rather friendly confirmation hearing Wednesday. Ch... |
289 | Menopause is a mystery to evolutionary biologists, but new insights could come from a study of killer whales. In these whales, the explanation may lie in a combination of conflict and cooperation between older and younger females, according to a report published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Killer whales ... |
290 | If reading more in 2017 was one of your new year’s resolutions, Nancy Pearl is here to help. Every once in a while, the librarian sends host Steve Inskeep a big stack of books. They’re generally ” ” reads — titles she thinks deserve more attention than they’ve been getting. This year, the stack includes breathtak... |
291 | Dogs are celebrated everywhere these days for the clever things they and their brains can do, and the science of dog cognition continues to soar in popularity. As a cat person, I can’t help but add that cats, too, show off their savviness for science. Now, some cognitive scientists are asking about another domesticated... |
292 | UPDATE: Trump Team: Adviser Spoke To Russia Official The Day U. S. Sanctions Were Announced, The man tapped to be national security adviser to Donald Trump, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, exchanged text messages and spoke with Russia’s ambassador to the U. S. Sergey Kislyak, in December ” around the time of the Obama a... |
293 | Fleeing, unarmed people shot in the back. Mentally ill men and women, not suspected of any crime, stunned by a Taser while they lay on the ground. People already detained or incapacitated who were beaten, with police accounts falsely describing the force as necessary. A report from the Justice Department details harr... |
294 | The Justice Department says an investigation has found Chicago police are systematically violating the civil rights of people in the city through excessive use of force, poor oversight and inadequate training of officers. U. S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the investigation’s findings on Friday, saying the ... |
295 | Next week, white nationalists like Jared Taylor will celebrate a moment they’ve been waiting decades to see, when Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Members of the white nationalist movement were among the first to embrace Trump’s candidacy, and they celebrated after his election. ”... |
296 | The website at the Office of Government Ethics went down Friday afternoon, apparently overwhelmed with traffic, as the agency and its director found themselves at the heart of a growing political fight. OGE website administrator Michael Hanson told NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben the site failure came as a result of the usua... |
297 | When President Obama took office in January 2009, the country was on edge, the economy in . The federal education law, known as No Child Left Behind, was also in need of an update after earning the ire of teachers, parents and politicians alike. In short, there was much to do. In time, that update would come, but Pres... |
298 | The six faith leaders Donald Trump has invited to pray at his inauguration come from diverse backgrounds, but they have something in common: All have personal ties to Trump or his family or have in some way signaled their approval of him, his politics or his wealth. The group includes an megachurch leader from Detr... |
299 | How much criticism can a single episode of television sustain before it gets the ax? On Friday, we may have gotten our answer: An episode of the British comedy series Urban Myths — which drew widespread complaints for featuring the white actor Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson — has been canceled by Sky TV befo... |
300 | Lila Downs has spent her career exploring the furthest reaches of Mexican folk music. With a voice that borrows heavily from opera, Downs performs the kind of mariachi singing that would fit right in at Mexico City’s Garibaldi Square — ground zero for mariachi. She can also coax the most tender moments from romant... |
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