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NPR's Bob Edwards, NPR's Alex Chadwick and NPR's Jennifer Ludden discuss developments in the war in Iraq.

Good morning. The top story of the day so far, as we reported earlier, seems to be that "Obama's  Jobs Bill Is Expected To Hit Roadblock Today In Senate." On a much less serious note, there's also the news that the ongoing labor dispute between players and owners has led to the cancellation of the first two weeks of the NBA season. Other stories making headlines include: Read More -- In Egypt, "Anti-Military Chants At Protesters' Funeral." (The Associated Press) -- "Peace Prize Winner Seeks Re-Election In Liberia." (Morning Edition) -- "NATO Says Resilience Of Gadhafi Allies Is Surprising." (The New York Times) -- "Underwear Bomber Trial To Begin In Detroit." (Morning Edition) -- Tonight's GOP Debate In New Hampshire Is "Now-Or-Never" For Perry. (Politico) -- "Wall Street Protesters Show Staying Power." (The Associated Press) Related AP report: "NYPD Costs Rise As Wall Street Protests Continue." -- "Afghan Detainees Tortured In Prison, U.N. Says." (The Washington Post)


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Question: In The Loop: "Best of The LoopCast"

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(Length: 47 min.) Before In The Loop went weekly, there was a little thing called The LoopCast.  We collected some of our favorite clowning from those glory days, including "This American Loop" and "Public Radio Laboratories."

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Question: Stephen Colbert On Missing His Live Audience And Making Comedy A Family Business

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert resumes taping in front of a live audience on June 14. Colbert spoke to Fresh Air in April 2021 about filming the show from home during the pandemic.

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Question: Trump Expected To Select Fast Food Magnate Andy Puzder As Labor Secretary

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Multiple news outlets are reporting that President-elect Trump has selected fast food magnate Andy Puzder as secretary of Labor.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Biden: McConnell Refused To Sign Bipartisan Statement On Russian Interference. -- Trump Lashes Out After Schumer Withdraws Offer On Border Wall. -- Remains Of 5 Gas Rig Workers Recovered After Explosion In Oklahoma. -- The Memo, The Bureau And The Missing Texts: Get Caught Up On The War Over The FBI. -- Google's Space Race To The Moon Ends, And Nobody Wins Lunar X Prize. -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth's Pregnancy Set To Be Another First For The Illinois Democrat. -- Gunmen Storm Afghan Office Of Save The Children. And here are more early headlines: Ex-Brazilian President Lula Waits For Corruption Appeal Verdict. (AFP) New Interim San Francisco Mayor Picked; Opponents Say Race A Factor. (SF Gate) Foreclosures Could Increase In Puerto Rico After Hurricanes. (AP) Senate Close To Voting On HHS Nominee, Alex Azar. (The Hill) "Where We Net Out At This": The Jargon At Davos. (BBC)


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Question: Who's Carl This Time?

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Carl reads three quotes from the weeks news: Somebody ducks out; Keep your friends close; Are you ready for something other than football?

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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: Pope-ularity; Emission Admission; It's Over Now That It's Over.


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Question: I'm Rick James: 15 Hours Of The Funk Supernova's Best Songs

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The inimitable Rick James' birthday was Feb. 1. To ride out his month we brought back our temporary takeover of "I'll Take You There," the 24/7 R&B and soul channel from NPR Music. Curated and hosted by Jason King of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University, the playlist runs the gamut from the genre's origins in the 1940s to today's slow jam stunners — except when we're wall to wall Rick James. To find out more about NPR's R&B coverage, follow the program on Twitter at @NPRandB and Jason King's personal Twitter account at @jasonkingsays.   One of my first memories of funk supernova Rick James is grooving to his lip-synched rendition of "Super Freak" on the 1982 American Music Awards. The 33-year-old clip now lives on YouTube: How surreal it is, in hindsight, to witness the perplexed faces of celebrity attendees like Chubby Checker. What, exactly, were they so taken aback by? Perhaps the sheer power of James' Funkadelic-inspired, macho grooves (he liked to brand himself as the king of "punk funk"). Perhaps those glitterific braids (and by the mid-'80s, the soaking jheri-curls) or the leather 'n fringe costumes that were simultaneously a fashion statement and a fashion emergency. Perhaps the fact that he clearly was the Super Freak he was singing about; no one, for one minute, believed it was an act. In the aftermath of Dave Chappelle, it's easy to misremember Rick James' lusty, libidinal image as quaint or campy, but in the late '70s and early '80s, Motown's most successful post-Detroit star was an authentic livewire, simmering over with throbbing testosterone. I think it's a good idea to also revisit James as an ultra-savvy professional on the defensive, constantly struggling for industry and personal recognition in the midst of embattled circumstance: As the '70s morphed into the '80s Motown was running out of gas, black music was under attack from reactionary rock fans and ignored (pre-Thriller) by MTV, the Purple-clothed upstart from Minneapolis was being hailed as the next post-Stevie genius; and, by the end of the '80s, baggy-panted hip-hoppers started sampling his copyrights but not paying up. In retrospect, it's also now much easier to see the humor that rode shotgun with some of Rick James' sex 'n drugs 'n rock 'n roll extremism. Like Chuck Berry, or even Gary Busey today, Rick James' celebrity always pivoted on a zany notoriety — it was even at the root of the off-the-cuff, catchphrase that turned him into 21st century hipster T-shirt fodder. If James' lifetime of outré antics helped turn him into something of a buffoon, it might be because it's easier for us to laugh alongside his excess rather than empathize with the seething darkness that underwrote it. Rick James first came to mainstream success in 1978, but he never really went through a disco phase: He had funk in his marrow, and, like peers ranging from The Gap Band to Shalamar to Sylvester, James helped fertilize the still-under-examined post-disco/boogie landscape of the early '80s. With real musical chops, James was one of R&B's most crafty producers and arrangers: He didn't just find clever ways to land on "the one," he blitzed it. And though Rick James' full-bodied baritone was rarely subtle, he remains an underappreciated singer with range: He could be nasally like Larry Blackmon or velvety like Larry Graham. Rick James spent a good deal of his post-'80s career incapacitated by drugs and sketchy health, and his incarceration record reminds us that there's no reason to sweep his attitude of disposability toward women or his deplorable behavior under the rug. Still, analog funk anthems like galvanic "Give It To Me" and carnal "Super Freak" remain irrefutable dance-floor jams; they're the universal ignition key to any party. James' quiet stormery has also stood the test of time: Inspired by the starlight twinkle of doo wop and the surging elegance of Smokey-era Motown, the archballadry of "Fire and Desire" — his classic duet with protégée Teena Marie — is R&B sexual melodrama at its most passionate and intense. On the occasion of what would have been his 67th birthday month (he died in 2004), I've curated a special Rick James stream. You'll hear all the major hits, carefully pruned album cuts, and a truckload of 12-inch mixes. Thanks to some help from Universal Music Enterprises super-executive Harry Weinger, I've included some of Rick James' earliest work with bands like Great White Cane, as well as his songs with The Stone City Band, his Chromeo-favored productions for Val Young, and chart hits he crafted for the likes of The Mary Jane Girls, The Temptations, Eddie Murphy and Teena Marie. I've also included a spate of covers and mashups, as well as songs that interpolate or sample or reference the work of Rick James — all of which should help remind us that while Mr. James may be gone, his music will never be forgotten.

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Question: Leaders' Americas Summit Begins Monday

The Organization of American States regional summit is slated to begin Monday in Monterrey, Mexico. In addition to the issue of a wider free trade zone, President Bush's recent proposal to create a guest worker program in the United States for immigrant laborers is expected to be discussed. The president arrives Monday for the meeting. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Gerry Hadden.

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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- United CEO Called Before Congress To Explain Eviction And Injury Of Passenger. -- Portland Police Arrest 25, Saying A May Day Rally Devolved Into 'Riot'. -- Why White Evangelicals Are 'Splintering' Politically. And here are more early headlines: Trump, Putin To Hold Phone Conversation Today. (The Hill) Heavy Rain, Flooding Threats Persist In Central U.S. (Weather.gov) U.S. Says South Korean Missile Defense System Operational. (BBC) French Presidential Candidates Trade Criticisms. (BBC) SpaceX Successfully Launches Secret Satellite For U.S. (Wired) Federal Reserve Opens 2 Day Meeting On Interest Rates. (Reuters) Venezuelan President Calls for Changes In Constitution. (CNN)


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Question: Bush Tries To Reassure Nation On Economy

President Bush has said the U.S. is using a "wide range of tools" to address the chaos in the financial markets. The stock market, however, has continued its downward slide. Many finance-watchers say the credit markets are to blame. Banks are simply not lending money to one another.

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Good morning, here are some of the stories we're following this morning: Live: SpaceX Capsule Heads Home. Bloomberg Aims To Take Gulp Out Of Sugary Drinks With Ban On Big Ones. Youngest Speller Is Out Of The Bee, Tripped Up By 'Ingluvies'. Ireland Votes On European Fiscal Treaty. (Irish Times) Activists Say Syrian Troops Shell Site Of Last Week's Massacre In Houla. (AP) Clinton: Action On Syria Requires International Cooperation, Especially From Russia. (AP) It's Day 9 For Jurors Deliberating Edwards Corruption Case. (Los Angeles Times) Two American Tourists Kidnapped In Egypt's Sinai Desert. (BBC) Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Thailand For Economic Forum, Mobbed By Well-Wishers. (Wall Street Journal) Former President George W. Bush Visits White House Today For Portrait Unveiling. (C-SPAN)


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Critic Ted Libbey joins Martin for another of their regular visits to the PT Basic Record Library. Today they discuss, and Ted recommends recordings of, one of the greatest -- and most fun -- Romantic violin concertos: the Symphonie Espagnole by Edouard Lalo.

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Question: New documentary examines the Darfur saga

The subject of a new film on the genocide in Darfur talks about his work to keep the world's attention on the continuing violence in Sudan.

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Hear how listeners and readers of the blog reacted to recent conversations about the fate of jazz, racial profiling and the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing.


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While you might not think so, Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, based on the play by Shakespeare, is one of the rarest things in opera. Over the centuries, Romeo and Juliet has inspired all kinds of music.  There are songs, symphonic poems, Broadway musicals and film scores.   In the Broadway category the most famous example must be West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and words by Stephen Sondheim.   That show, in turn, has spawned countless "covers" of its hit tunes, in all manner of musical guises.  Take, for example, a tune featured here, along with the opera – "I Feel Pretty" performed by Little Richard! Among the many films inspired by Shakespeare's tragedy, the one with the most famous music is probably the version by Franco Zeffirelli.  The movie's score, by Nino Rota was a hit all on its own. There's also plenty of "classical" music inspired by the play, including the familiar tone poem by Tchaikovsky, and a brilliant ballet by Sergei Prokofiev.  So what makes Gounod's opera a rare bird?  It's not just that it's based on Shakespeare's tragedy; there are plenty of other operas in that category.  What's unusual about Gounod's version is that it's an opera based on Shakespeare that's actually a hit.  There are hundreds of Shakespeare operas, and a couple of dozen based on Romeo and Juliet.  But, astonishingly, of those hundreds only a few are still "in the repertory."  Of all the "R & J" operas, there's really only one true "hit," and we've got it on this edition of World of Opera. The production comes from one of America's strongest, and most innovative opera companies, Houston Grand Opera, and features the brilliant tenor Ramon Vargas as Romeo, with soprano Ana Maria Martinez as Juliet.

Charles Dutoit has spent a lot of time in Tokyo, as the NHK Symphony's Principal conductor. Here's a recording they made together of "The Death of Tybalt," from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.


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Question: My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico

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Guest: Marcus Eriksen, Director of Research and Education for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and an active member of Veterans for Peace

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Question: Kennedy Center to Honor Five

This weekend five of the country's leading performing artists will be feted at the 25th annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be televised later this month. We play clips from the careers of actor James Earl Jones, conductor James Levine, actor Elizabeth Taylor, singer Paul Simon and actor, singer and dancer Chita Rivera.

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Stories: 1) Colin Meloy of The Decemberists 2) Remembering Father Robert Drinan 3) The Metropolitan Opera in a Theater Near You


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Question: Unusual Tick-Borne Virus Lurks In Missouri's Woods

Last year, scientists got the chance to solve a medical mystery — well, at least half of it. This week the final puzzle pieces fell into place, as investigators tracked the newly identified virus to an eight-legged bug. The mystery actually began with two Missouri farmers who came down with a strange illness in 2009. They had high fevers, diarrhea and nausea. Their platelet counts dropped dramatically, though they didn't experience any abnormal bleeding. Doctors thought it was a bacterial infection. But antibiotics didn't help. So a quick-thinking physician at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., sent the men's blood to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When virologists looked at the samples under the microscope, they discovered a virus that no one had ever seen before. They named it the Heartland virus, in honor of its origin and the Midwest. Both farmers eventually recovered from the illness. But a piece of the puzzle was still missing. How did the men catch the virus? Where did it come from? Now entomologists at the CDC have filled in the blanks. The bug specialists have identified the Heartland virus in ticks at a farm and in a park in northwest Missouri, near where the two farmers live. "It's the first time anyone has found it in the wild, in the environment," says the study's lead author, Harry Savage. "It means the virus is yet another tick-borne disease in the U.S. — and another reason to prevent getting bit." Both farmers had been bitten by ticks before getting sick. So Savage and his colleagues hunted for the virus in 12 locations around St. Joseph and the Missouri River. They collected more than 50,000 ticks during the summer of 2012, and even picked the bloodsuckers off horses and dogs on the patients' farms. The virus showed up in only one species: the lone star tick. And it wasn't in the adult ticks — just the young ones, called nymphs. Near the home of one of the farmers, 1 in 500 nymphs had the virus, Savage tells Shots. "If we were looking for Lyme in Connecticut, there would be more ticks infected," he says, "but for a virus, [1 in 500] is a substantial number." Savage and his team published their findings this week in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The lone star tick — which is named after the white spot on its back, not Texas — doesn't carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. But it has been linked to a similar illness, called Southern tick-associated rash illness. And its bite can leave a rash that looks like the one caused by the Lyme-carrying deer tick. No other cases of the Heartland virus have been reported since its discovery last year. And Savage thinks the risk of infection is still low. "That's just speculative," he says. "With viruses, there are often a lot of people who are asymptomatic." And, since the virus is new, health workers have probably missed it, he says. "In Missouri, doctors will think you have bacterial infection, give you antibiotics and send you home." Savage and his team are just starting to look for the virus in other parts of the U.S. The lone star tick has a broad distribution in the U.S., occupying much of the Southeast. The tick's range has even been expanding over the past few decades, and it now thrives as far north as Maine.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- EgyptAir Plane Hijacker Arrested In Cyprus. -- Atlanta Businesses Again Lead Push Against Social Conservatives. And here are more early headlines: Pakistan Arrests Hundreds Of People After Deadly Bombing. (Deutsche Welle) Utah Will Require Anesthesia For Abortions After 20 Weeks. (USA Today) FBI Investigating Potential Hacking Of Hospital System. (Washington Post) Tanker Spills Unknown Amount Of Crude Oil In Louisiana Bayou. (NOLA.com) Another Skyscraper Fire Breaks Out In United Arab Emirates. (Time) Bleaching Of Great Barrier Reef Far Worse Than Feared. (Sydney Morning Herald) Remote Alaska Volcanic Eruption Subsides. (Alaska Volcano Observatory) Gnome Homes Relocated From Pennsylvania State Park To Local Parks. (AP)


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Question: Excerpt: Rival Rails

Chapter One  Lines  upon the Map The wind  makes a mournful moan as it roars through the canyons and arroyos of West Texas. But on the afternoon of September 28, 1858, a  new sound pierced the air. The tinny call of a bugle announced the  impending arrival of the first westbound Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach at  the Pinery Station near the crest of 5,534-foot Guadalupe Pass. Eighteen  months earlier, Congress had authorized the postmaster general to establish  regular overland mail service between San Francisco and the Mississippi River. When bids were opened, the route  was awarded to John Butterfield for the then staggering sum of $600,000 per  year.The New York Times promptly termed the entire enterprise a waste of  government money. Butterfield's contract required twice-weekly service  and a transcontinental schedule of twenty-five days or less. The 2,795-mile  route converged from St. Louis and Memphis at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then  dipped south across Texas, the Gila River country, and Southern California  before swinging north to San Francisco. The Pinery was but one of 141 stations  that Butterfield initially constructed to accommodate the numerous horses,  mules, stagecoaches, and men required to put the line into operation. When  the coach creaked to a halt at the Pinery that September day, a sole passenger  alighted and brushed the alkali dust from his clothes. If the station workers  eyed him as an eastern dude, they were right.  His name was Waterman Lily Ormsby  III, and he was a twenty-three-year-old special correspondent for the New York  Herald. He had been enticed west by John Butterfield to record the glories of  transcontinental mail service. Butterfield himself had elected to depart the  inaugural run at Fort Smit. While four fresh mules were  attached to the coach, Ormsby wolfed down a hasty meal of venison and baked  beans. Then the young newsman climbed back inside. The driver and conductor  remounted their swaying perch,and with a flick of the reins they bounced  westward across Guadalupe Pass. That evening, as Ormsby's coach  descended the pass, there was a commotion on the trail ahead. The first eastbound  coach from San Francisco came into sight and pulled to a stop alongside its  westbound twin. After historic pleasantries, both drivers urged their teams  forward in the irrespective directions at speeds averaging five miles an  hour. Brief though it was, this encounter proved that the American coasts  had been joined-however tenuously-and the neophyte Butterfield Overland Mail  unleashed a huge national appetite for transcontinental connections. Whether by  stagecoach, Pony Express, or iron rails, this obsession with bridging the  continent would consume the American nation for the next century. Only a  half century before John Butterfield's enterprise, the American West was largely  unmapped. Native Americans in much of the region lived a seminomadic lifestyle  with fluid territorial boundaries. These changed over the years with intertribal  warfare and pressures stirred by newcomers chased out of their indigenous  homelands east of the Mississippi. By the 1820s, the rivers  flowing eastward from the Rocky Mountains had become trails into their midst.  Mountain men trapping beaver were followed by traders-the risk-taking  entrepreneurs of their day-who forced groaning wagons loaded with goods along the  river valleys. Among the earliest and most famous of these routes was the Santa  Fe Trail linking Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New  Mexico. But as the Santa  Fe trade swelled during the 1830s, the problem in the eyes of many  Americans was that Santa Fe and the  entire Southwest, from California to Texas, belonged to Mexico. Once the  Republic of Texas was born in 1836, this decidedly American presence looked  covetously at Santa Fe and the land beyond. The tide of American  expansionism running westward along the Santa Fe  Trail soon exploded under the banner of Manifest Destiny. When  the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the Mexican provinces of Upper  California and New Mexico-essentially, the future American states of California,  Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and more than half of Colorado-belonged to  the United States. Some thought the new territory quite worthless.  Others who had been in the vanguard to Santa Fe or lusted in a similar vein  for California knew better. Now the race to build an empire here would not  be between Americans and Mexicans but among Americans  themselves. Mountain men and traders found the routes into the Rockies,  but it was a succession of military topographers who put those routes down on  paper as lines upon the map of the West. It did not take long for visionaries to  see those lines as logical extensions of the railroads that were beginning to  extend their spidery webs about the East. To show the importance the  federal government placed on such mapping, the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical  Engineers was esta

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Question: Obama To Hold News Conference This Afternoon

Just in from the White House: President Obama will hold a news conference, scheduled to start at 2:20 p.m. ET, in the briefing room at the White House. We'll live-blog as it happens, so check back as the time draws near if you're interested.

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Good morning. Our early headlines: -- U.S. Families Stunned By Russia's Ban On Adoptions. -- Remembering Gen. Schwarzkopf, 'Military Hero Of His Generation'. -- Secretary Clinton Due Back At Work Next Week, 'Foreign Policy' Reports. And the other major story of the day, as we reported late Thursday: -- White House To Host Congressional Leaders Friday For Fiscal Deadline Talks. Meanwhile, other stories making headlines include: -- At Least 17 Deaths Blamed On Winter Storm That Crossed Much Of Nation. (The Associated Press) -- Former President George H.W. Bush Remains In Hospital, But Would Urge Folks To "Put The Harps Back In The Closet," Spokeswoman Says. (Houston Chronicle) -- Shooting Appears To Be Chicago's 500th Homicide This Year. (Chicago Tribune)


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Question: 'Gotta Give 'Em Hope': The Legacy Of Harvey Milk

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In two weeks, the film Milk is going to open. It's about Harvey Milk, who served on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors — the city's equivalent of a city council. In 1978, when he was gunned down by an assassin, he'd been in office less than a year.  The first openly gay man to be elected to public office, Milk left a legacy of determined enfranchisement that lives on in the more than 600 openly gay or lesbian elected officials serving now in North America. But especially among younger elected officials, memories of Milk are beginning to fade.   "I don't know very much about his life story," admits 35-year-old Patrick Wojahn, who was elected to the city council in College Park, Md., in 2007. "It just shows that all this stuff is many, many years ago and unfortunately not as fresh in our minds as maybe it should be."   Wojahn cites gay and lesbian Reps. Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin as his gay political heroes. He was only 5 years old when Milk was killed.  For a younger generation, the Will and Grace generation, it's almost inconceivable that not too long ago, people could get fired or arrested for being gay. The shame sometimes led to suicide.  It was in that climate that Milk managed to help successfully beat back Proposition 6 --an initiative that would have barred gay people from working as school teachers — and passed a city ordinance guaranteeing equal rights for gays and lesbians in San Francisco.  "You could just see that people stood a little taller," says Walter Caplan, who was Milk's lawyer in the 1970s.  "There were always gay teachers, gay nurses, gay health-care people who lived quiet little lives and feared for losing the security of the jobs that they had."  Caplan says the ordinance set off a protracted civil-rights chain reaction that perhaps even Milk may not have anticipated. For example, because the airport in San Francisco was owned by the city, suddenly major airlines were required not to discriminate against gays and lesbians.  While most of the major airlines long resisted giving domestic-partner benefits, now, Caplan notes wryly, you'll see them aggressively marketing their services to gay consumers at San Francisco's annual pride parade. Anne Kronenberg, who coordinated Milk's campaign, now works as deputy director of San Francisco's department of public health. She says over the course of many years of activism, Milk helped transformed the city's political landscape. "He understood we can't do it by ourselves," Kronenberg says. By working strategically with unions and the city's fragmented ethnic and racial groups, Milk organized minorities to become the majority.  She says when Milk was elected, along with a single mom, an African-American woman and a Chinese-American man, the San Francisco city council began to look a lot more like San Francisco. And speaking of resemblances, Kronenberg says she was shocked by how much Milk star Sean Penn looked like her former boss. She worked as an extra during much of the San Francisco shoot. "There were a few times when [Penn] walked by and I'd gulp," she says.  Times change, Kronenberg says. There was a period when she would have found it difficult to believe that so many straight Hollywood actors would enthusiastically perform in a major motion picture about a gay activist.  And how ironic, she notes, that just as a film commemorating his life is about to be released, the majority of Californians voted to take away key civil rights of their gay and lesbian fellow citizens.

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Question: Friday News Roundup - International

With guest host Indira Lakshmanan. A curious warning from the White House to Syria about further use of chemical weapons was just one of the big global news stories this week. In Latin America, Brazil and Venezuela face crises of government. China’s Xi Jinping pays a first visit to Hong Kong as president. And a top aide to the Pope is charged with sexual assault. GUESTS James Kitfield, Senior fellow, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress; contributing writer, Atlantic Media; author of “Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War” Nancy Youssef, National security correspondent, BuzzFeed Brian Winter, Editor-in-chief, Americas Quarterly and vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas For more, visit http://the1a.org. © 2017 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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Question: Ban on Gang Street Shrines Divides Oakland

Are street shrines meaningful memorials, or a public menace? Shirley Skeel reports on street shrines in Oakland, Calif., that honor victims of gang violence -- and how the decision of local police to remove the shrines has divided that community.

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Question: It's ScuttleButton Time!

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Unreported by the mainstream media is that in yesterday's Senate vote releasing bailout funds, money for another ScuttleButton puzzle was included. Many lawmakers voted against this provision, upset with last week's "Baby Fish Mouth" puzzle. Hopefully, they'll like this one better. Here's what you need to do to solve this rebus: Take one word (or concept) per button, add 'em up, and what do you get? A correct answer chosen at random gets his or her name in this column. You can't use the comments box at the bottom of the page for your answer. Send submission (plus your name and city/state) to politicaljunkie@npr.org. Note: This will be an occasionally recurring feature on the Political Junkie blog. Plus, you can add your name to the Political Junkie mailing list, even though these are the first people they will come after when you-know-who takes over. Sign up at politicaljunkie@npr.org.

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Question: Senate Panel Postpones Gonzales Appearance

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The shootings at Virginia Tech have prompted the postponement of a much anticipated Senate hearing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.  The nation's top law enforcement official is under pressure to explain his role in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys in 2006.  When he visits Congress Thursday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will seek to explain the dismissals — and why his explanations have been inconsistent. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have said that Gonzales so badly mishandled the incident that he should resign.   In the three months since Gonzales testified before Congress about the federal prosecutors, both documents and testimony from Justice Department officials have contradicted his account. Justice spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos is calling the hearing another step in Gonzales' effort to fix the problem.  But members of the Senate Judiciary Committee say Gonzales must explain specifically why each of the U.S. attorneys was chosen for dismissal. ROBERT SIEGEL, host:  This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.  MICHELE NORRIS, host:  And I'm Michele Norris.  A day of reckoning has been postponed for Alberto Gonzales. The attorney general was supposed to appear before a skeptical Congress tomorrow to try to convince them that he deserves to keep his job.  Officials from both parties have said he so badly mishandled the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys that he should resign. The hearing has now been postponed until Thursday because of the shootings at Virginia Tech. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on how the scandal evolved and what to expect at Thursday's hearings.  ARI SHAPIRO: The scandal over eight fired U.S. attorneys was not one of those stories that exploded like a burst pipe; this one dribbled out slowly. One U.S. attorney in Arkansas was dismissed back in June, another seven on a single day in December. Gonzales didn't testify before Congress about the firings for another month and a half. Even then, the big headline from the hearing was about domestic spying. The U.S. attorney story was almost an afterthought.  Senator DIANNE FEINSTEIN (Democrat, California): I'm very concerned, because technically under the Patriot Act, you can appoint someone without confirmation for the remainder of the president's term.  SHAPIRO: Democrat Dianne Feinstein was especially uneasy because two of the fired U.S. attorneys came from her home state of California - Kevin Ryan in San Francisco and Carol Lam in San Diego.  Lam was in the middle of a major political corruption investigation. She had already sent one Republican congressman to prison - Randy Duke Cunningham - and she was investigating another. Attorney General Gonzales assured Feinstein that all of the U.S. attorney dismissals were for performance-related reasons.  Attorney General ALBERTO GONZALES (U.S. Department of Justice): I would never ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons or if it would in any way jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it.  SHAPIRO: That was three months ago. Since then, Congress voted overwhelmingly to change the law to once again require Senate confirmation for replacement U.S. attorneys. Some of the U.S. attorneys who were fired testified that they believe they were dismissed because they went too hard on Republicans or too easy on Democrats.  And Justice Department officials trying to do damage control have provided a dazzling array of explanations for why and how the firings took place. After Gonzales testified that all of the U.S. attorneys were fired because of their performance, his deputy Paul McNulty told Congress that wasn't necessarily true.  Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer asked the question here about the former U.S. attorney in Arkansas.  Senator Charles SCHUMER (Democrat, New York): Bud Cummins has said that he was told he had done nothing wrong and he was simply being asked to resign to let someone else have the job. Does he have it right?  Mr. PAUL MCNULTY (Deputy Attorney General): I accept that as being accurate, as best I know the facts.  SHAPIRO: Another Justice official, Will Machella, told Congress that the White House played a minor role in the firings, and soon after, a stack of internal Justice Department e-mails showed that White House political adviser Karl Rove and White House counsel Harriet Miers helped develop the plan.  Those e-mails also show the attorney general's chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, plotting to dismiss U.S. attorneys who were not, quote, "loyal Bushies." On the day the documents were released, Sampson resigned and Gonzales made this fateful statement.  Attorney General GONZALES: I never saw documents. We never had a discussion about where things stood.  Mr. KYLE SAMPSON (Former Chief of Staff to Gonzales): I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions about U.S. attorney removals is accurate.  SHAPIRO: That was Kyle Sampson tes

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- California Wildfires Spread, Spurred On By Strong Winds. -- U.S. Decision On Jerusalem Sparks Anger And Concern. -- Recount Likely In Close Atlanta Mayoral Race. -- 'French Elvis' Johnny Hallyday Dies At 74.  -- British Intelligence Reportedly Foils Plot To Kill Prime Minister. And here are more early headlines: House Delays Stop Gap Spending Bill Vote. (The Hill) Impeachment Articles To Be Introduced In House. (Washington Post) Trump, Jr. To Speak Privately To House Intel Committee. (NBC) Kirstjen Nielsen Confirmed As Homeland Security Secretary. (Politico) Russian Lawmakers To Bar Certain U.S. Media From Chamber. (Reuters)


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Question: Study Sends New Warning on Asthma Drugs

For years, asthma specialists have debated whether a commonly used drug -- salmeterol -- can make the disease worse. The Food and Drug Administration approved strong new warning labels on medications containing the drug last month.  But the debate over whether it should stay on the market continues. Millions of people with asthma use inhalers, like Advair, that give them long-lasting relief from the wheezing, suffocating symptoms of the disease. Studies suggest, however, that these drugs can sometimes make the underlying disease worse, even as they improve symptoms. The result can be a sudden severe asthma attack that requires hospitalization and might even cause death. The most recent analysis, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, reports that salmeterol  increases the risk of hospitalization for any form of asthma. Asthma patients taking Advair and other drugs containing salmeterol are advised to monitor their symptoms closely and to have a clear plan to seek help if their symptoms get worse. MELISSA BLOCK, host:  For years asthma specialists have argued about whether a commonly used drug sometimes makes the disease worse. Last month the Food and Drug Administration approved strong new warning labels on medications containing the drug.  But the debate over whether it should stay on the market continues, as NPR's Richard Knox reports.  RICHARD KNOX reporting:  Twenty million Americans know the wheezing and breathlessness of asthma. That's a big number. It explains why you see so many ads for asthma drugs on television.  (Soundbite of television commercial)  Unidentified Man: I have asthma and even when I thought I had it under control, I still had symptoms.  KNOX: This is an ad for the leading asthma medication inhaled by millions every day.  Unidentified Man: So I talked to my doctor about Advair.  KNOX: Advair contains two drugs, one reduces the swelling in lungs and air passages, the other drug relaxes those airways letting more air through. It's called salmeterol. It's the controversial one.  Unidentified Man: In patients with asthma, medicines like salmeterol may increase the chance of asthma-related death. Advair won't replace fact acting - KNOX: Advair's maker has to air that caution because a large study in 2003 conducted by the manufacturer turned up evidence that patients taking salmeterol had twice as many life-threatening asthma attacks as people taking a placebo and four times more asthma-related deaths.  One analysis of that data suggested that African-American patients were particularly prone to problems with salmeterol. Dr. Shelley Saltpeter of Stanford University wasn't surprised by those results. She says studies as long ago as 1990 indicated salmeterol can aggravate inflammation in the lungs even as symptoms get better. That can result in sudden life threatening asthma attacks.  Dr. SHELLEY SALTPETER (Stanford University): There was an impression that these drugs were good and were actually controlling asthma in a majority of patients and that is what was incorrect.  KNOX: Incorrect, she says, according to the results of a new analysis she and her colleagues report in the current Annals of Internal Medicine. They pooled data from 19 studies that enrolled nearly 34,000 people. Saltpeter says the new analysis reveals a larger problem with salmeterol, which is called a long-acting beta-agonist.  Dr. SALTPETER: It's not just a small number of people that may have some strange reaction to it. In fact, we found that long-acting beta-agonists increased the risk of hospitalization for any form of asthma.  KNOX: Saltpeter says overall, patients taking the drug were about three times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma attacks and three and a half times more likely to die. She calculates salmeterol causes one death for every 700 patients taking it for a year. That implies the drug may be causing several thousands deaths a year nationally.  Saltpeter thinks the drug should be removed from the market. She's consulting for lawyers on possible lawsuits against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Advair.  Dr. SALTPETER: I don't believe we should have a drug on the market that makes the disease it is treating worse and increases the chance of dying of that disease.  KNOX: Glaxo spokeswoman Mary Ann Rhine dismisses the new analysis.  Ms. MARY ANN RHINE (GlaxoSmithKline): We see the conclusions as being inconsistent with the larger body of evidence and inconsistent with the real world experience of millions of patients.  KNOX: Rhine says a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee had access to the same data Saltpeter used last summer.  Ms. RHINE: And the conclusion of that committee was that the benefits of these medicines outweigh the potential risks and that the drug should remain on the market. We believe that remains true today.  KNOX: Not all doctors think drugs containing salmeterol should be pulled from the market. Dr. Jeffrey Glassroth doesn't. He's a lung specialist at Tuft's New

Stories: 1) Brain Injuries Haunt Football Players Years Later 2) How Traumatic Events Change Our View Of Language


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Question: Unlike A 'Rolling Stone,' We Don't Change Names Or Share Stories With Sources

Give Rolling Stone some credit for transparency. Sean Penn's account of his trip to meet Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is topped with this editor's note:  "Disclosure: Some names have had to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject that this piece would be submitted for the subject's approval before publication. The subject did not ask for any changes."  There's a good discussion to be had about the line between activism and journalism and how far across it the "El Chapo Speaks" piece goes. Let's set that aside for now. This post is about two simpler issues. First, NPR does not create pseudonyms for sources. Doing so gives the audience a reason to ask what else might have been made up. If we need to protect someone's identity, we most often use real first names, sometimes real middle names, sometimes real "street" or nicknames that the source is known by and sometimes descriptions (the "husband," the "sister," the "officer," etc.). Whatever we do, we explain it in our reports. We include the reason why the person needs anonymity. We also pay attention to "the 'don'ts' of anonymity." That is, no attacks, no disguises and no offers. The Ethics Handbook's guidance on anonymous sourcing is collected here. Of particular importance is this guideline: "Describe Anonymous Sources As Clearly As You Can Without Identifying Them." Second, NPR does not show its stories to sources before broadcast or posting. Here is our guidance:  "For purposes of accuracy and fairness, there are times when we may want to review portions of a script with a source or read back a quotation to ensure we captured it correctly. We may also play audio or read transcripts of an interview to a third party if the purpose is to get that party's reaction to what another person has said. Otherwise, however, the public is the first audience for our work — we don't preview scripts or stories in advance of their broadcast or posting with sources, subjects of coverage or other parties outside NPR."

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Brett Favre announced yesterday that he will continue playing. But only for one more year. And if you believe that, then you also must believe that the following events will also occur, as they appear to be far more likely than his actual retirement -- as we noted in a post that ran one year ago yesterday. 1. Yale Students Welcome Snooki On Her First Day 2. Lady Gaga Unveils Line Of Tummy-Shaping Undergarments 3. New 'American Idol' Judges Are A Big Hit; Show's Problems Solved 4. J-Lo Arrested In Extensive Anti-Booty Rioting 5. Brett Favre Eaten By Coyotes 6. James Franco: 'It's Probably Time To Calm Down' 7. Kathryn Bigelow Says James Cameron Is 'Probably Right' About 3D 8. What Ever Happened To Justin Bieber? 9. Herbert Hoover Reincarnated As Large, Enthusiastic Cocker Spaniel 10. Bryn Mawr Endows Katy Perry Chair 11. Musicologists Discover 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' Speeded Up 800 Percent Sounds Like 'Yakety Sax' 12. Experts Agree: Helen Mirren Has Totally Let Herself Go 13. Bret Michaels Gets Green Party Endorsement 14. Kanye Interrupted At VMAs By Irate, Obscene Rant From Bon Iver's Justin Vernon 15. Brett Favre Shocks World By Totally Not Retiring At All 16. Starbucks Introduces Prozac-Infused "Happuccino" 17. Health Trend Continues As 'Fiber Emporium' Buys Out 436 Dying Cupcake Stores 18. Internet Reaches Consensus: 'It Turns Out It Was Mostly A Misunderstanding' 19. Public Embraces Inexpensive Pacifiers Made From Recycled Truck Tires 20. It's Official, Guv'nor: Brits Love American-Made Tea 21. Worldwide Fretting Over Jennifer Aniston's Love Life Suspended 22. Brett Favre Struck By Lightning While Playing Golf 23. Cold Fusion Discovered By Participant In ABC's 'Shark Tank' 24. Facebook Streamlines Privacy Controls With 'Just Don't Tell Anybody Anything About Me Unless I Say It's Okay' Button 25. Brett Favre Plans Stint In Minor League Baseball: What Could Go Wrong?


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Question: #1621: Odometer Dreams

This week on The Best of Car Talk, Bill's broken odometer fixed itself, right after Bill dreamed it was working. Will Tom and Ray have a mechanical explanation, a metaphysical explanation, or (most likely) a boooooogus explanation? Elsewhere, Toby wants her husband to get rid of her old BMW, but he's proving as immovable as the car; Sally is getting half her husband's mileage, and hopes it's not because she's buying cheap gas from Rotten Robbie; and Derek's dog would really appreciate it if Derek could get his Impreza to stop lunging forward. All this, plus a round of Stump the Chumps, and lots more, this week on The Best of Car Talk.

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The Alf Files, Naked Faces, and Hunky Homers.


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Question: In The Loop: "Best of The LoopCast"

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(Length: 47 min.) Before In The Loop went weekly, there was a little thing called The LoopCast.  We collected some of our favorite clowning from those glory days, including "This American Loop" and "Public Radio Laboratories."

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The Re-Structuring of Comair, Field Notes: Crystal Clear Science, Essencha Tea House, Isabella Moon, Focus on Technology


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Another big blow was struck late last week against the embattled plan for tribal gambling in the desert city of Barstow, as federal officials rejected the land applications of two out-of-the area tribes.
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Question: Blaze Kills 9 Firefighters in South Carolina

Fire swept through a furniture warehouse in Charleston, S.C., collapsing the building's roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters. Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley paid tribute to the firefighters, saying they fought the fire with the last full measure of courage and devotion. "These people will never be forgotten. This time yesterday, they were firefighters. This time today, they are heroic, historic figures in our city," Mayor Riley said during an afternoon press conference. The nation mourned the nine firefighters who together comprised 100 years of service, ranging from Capt. William "Billy" Hutchinson, a 30-year veteran, to Michael French, an assistant engineer with one-and-a-half years of service. Hutchinson was 48; French was 27 and the youngest to die in the blaze. Chief Rusty Thomas, of the City of Charleston Fire Dept., thanked the families of the deceased firefighters for their service. "To the families, you gave them to us and we protected them as much as we could. They did exactly what they were trained to do," Thomas said. The firefighters rescued two employees from the blaze, which broke out about 7 p.m. Monday in the Sofa Super Store and warehouse. Overnight, firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers saluted as the bodies of the nine firefighters were carried from the warehouse. They are the most firefighters to perish in a single fire since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center claimed 343 New York City firefighters, according to Firehouse.com. Their deaths are "just absolutely heartbreaking," Riley said. "They are a family, they support each other. The grief that they feel cannot be explained or fully understood." Because firefighters spend so much time together in the stationhouse, they are also bound to grieve together, experts say. "I lost nine of my best friends," said Chief Thomas. "We got a long road ahead of us but we're going to stand tall." Charleston firefighter Eric Glover agrees. "You're always close to the guys because you spend a third of your life with these guys. Every third day you spend 24 hours there, so you get real close," he said in an interview with CNN. Glover was among a number of firefighters attending a golf benefit tournament earlier Monday for the family of a firefighter who had recently died when the call to respond to the fire at the Sofa Super Store came over their scanners. By the time he arrived, he told CNN, the roof had already collapsed. "It all happened pretty fast. They didn't really have a chance," Glover said. Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten disclosed the names of the fallen firefighters but would not release further information about the investigation into their deaths. "We don't want to leave any stone unturned because these brave men deserve all the information that can be gleaned about their tragic deaths," she said. "And we certainly don't want to miss-serve their families by jumping to any conclusions." Witnesses said when the roof collapsed, debris was thrown over about two dozen rescue workers while onlookers were hit with flying ash. "It was like a 30-foot tornado of flames," said Mark Hilton, who was struck in his eye. Daniel Shahid, a salesman at a nearby car dealership, said firefighters came in asking for towels. "The next thing you know, we were carrying hoses, directing traffic, everybody from the dealership," he said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.  "A sofa is plenty of fuel," Riley said, referring to how quickly the fire spread. Rubber products and other materials used to make furniture tend to burn very quickly, fire officials said. Sofa Super Store advertised sleep sofas and those made from wicker and rattan, aside from a standard upholstered selection. Arson was not suspected, Rileysaid. The blaze apparently started in a storage area and he said that no sprinklers were in the building to slow the fire. "This is a profession that we must never take for granted," the mayor said. "There's a fire raging and they go toward it." Rob Dewey, the department's chaplain, said the firefighters were banding together. "We're doing some grieving. We're doing some crying. We reach out and let people hug on us," he said. Outside resources have been called in to help the family members. One of them is the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF), which is charged with caring for the survivors of the families of fallen firefighters to provide grief counseling and support helping them reorganize their lives. The NFFF sent a crisis team — which include a fire chief, behavior specialist, relative of a fallen firefighter, and a firefighter — from Easley, S.C., to Charleston.  "They're there to appraise the situation, advise, and help in any way that they are asked," said NFFF Chairman Hal Bruno. 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Good morning (and our apologies for being late with this). Some of our early headlines: -- Judge Says Nidal Hasan Can Represent Himself In Fort Hood Trial -- Report: NSA Is Searching 'Vast Amounts' Of Americans' Emails -- 'Total Disgrace': Jackie Robinson Statue Defaced In Brooklyn -- 'New York Times' Is Not For Sale, Sulzberger Says -- Fannie Mae Books $10.1 Billion In Second-Quarter Profits -- 3 Winning Powerball Tickets Sold: 2 In N.J., 1 In Minnesota -- Burglars Return Loot To Group That Helps Sex Assault Victims -- Stars And Stripes: Pair Of Sumatran Tigers Born At National Zoo -- World-Record Snakehead Fish Caught In U.S. Other stories in the news: -- Wildfire In Southern California "Grows To 10,000 Acres; One Person Burned 'Head To Toe.' " (Los Angeles Times) -- 4 Killed, 4 Wounded In Dallas-area Shooting Rampage. (The Dallas Morning News) -- "Suspect's Vehicle In California Murder-abduction Case Seen In Oregon." (Reuters) -- Suicide Bomber In Quetta, Pakistan, Kills At Least 28. (BBC News)


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Question: Friday News Roundup - International

In Myanmar this week, two reporters were sentenced to seven years in jail after they reported on the brutal murder of 10 Rohynga Muslims in the village of Inn Din. The reporting drew “for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.” Reuters reported on their sentencing:  A court found the two journalists guilty on Monday in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards democracy in Myanmar, which was ruled by a military junta until 2011. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were investigating the killing of villagers from the Rohingya Muslim minority by security forces and civilians in Rakhine State when they were arrested in December. They had pleaded not guilty.

Deeply troubled by the Burmese court ruling sentencing 2 @Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail for doing their job reporting on the atrocities being committed on the Rohingya people. — Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) September 4, 2018   The United Kingdom leveled charges against two Russians. They are alleged to have used a weapons-grade nerve agent for “the attempted murder of the Russian former intelligence officer, Sergei V. Skripal; of Yulia S. Skripal, his daughter; and of a police officer, Det. Sgt. Nick Bailey, who was sickened while investigating the case.” The British government identified them as active members of Russian intelligence. It’s unlikely that these alleged G.R.U agents will be repatriated to Britain to stand trial and the Russian government denied the charges. A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said the names and photos that were released “meant nothing to them.” Is there a reset on the horizon for the U.S. and Pakistan? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the new Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday. Tensions have long been high between the two countries due to the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Pompeo will visit India next, where this week activists cheered as the Supreme Court decriminalized gay intercourse. Violating that law was punishable by a life sentence. A devastating museum fire in Brazil meant the loss of countless cultural artifacts. The museum held the largest anthropological history collection in the Americas. But some museum officials say that the fire could have been prevented, according to The New York Times.  “We knew that the fire one day was bound to happen,” said Marcelo Weksler, a curator of the mammals exhibit. “Everybody here knew that. It was our worst nightmare.” A citizen’s complaint, filed with the federal prosecutor’s office in Rio de Janeiro by an architect on July 27, included photos and pointed to specific hazards like the use of flammable plastic on the roof, uncovered wires and other evidence of jury-rigged wiring.   GUESTS Elise Labott, Global affairs correspondent, CNN; @eliselabottcnn Paul Danahar, Washington bureau chief of the BBC; author of “The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring”; @pdanahar Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor, The Washington Post; @KarenAttiah  For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2018 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.


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Question: Opening Up the Archives

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As part of our audio reference services, librarians here at NPR are frequently asked to find old newsreels covering a specific topic or historical sound of a specific person. We do have a small but important collection of speeches, movies and television shows for the staff to use. Often times, though, we search known websites with archival sound for that perfect clip to be used in a reporter's story. Recently two organizations have released free archival material on their websites that could come in handy for future audio reference questions. Read More >> HBO launched an archival business back in 2002 to catalog and provide their collection to the outside world. Back in June they announced that they have posted complete episodes from the March of Time newsreel and documentary series online. According to the website, "this series contains original footage shot in the 1930s through 1960s, with historic footage dating back to 1913." In this collection I found a clip from February 1935 documenting the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera. The clip shows the opera singers preparing their makeup backstage as well as the retiring opera director Giulio Gatti-Casazza nervously watching the performance from backstage. Similarly the British Library just posted over 44,000 archival sound recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments on their website. Unfortunately, the collection is cut in half for us folks wanting to listen in the United States due to copyright permissions. One interesting clip I found was an English Conversation lesson from 1929 on how to go to the Theatre in London. The listener is told where to find the best seats within a particular theatre as well as how to purchase tickets for a play in Covent Garden. There is even a mock dialogue of ordering tickets and arriving at the theatre for the performance.

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Public Financing of Political Campaigns, The Legend of St. Nicholas, Field Notes: Gorillas, Focus on Technology, Gluten-Free Living, The Big Screen: Forever


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Question: Report: Syrian Government Has Demolished Entire Neighborhoods

As the Syrian government and opposition forces try to make peace in Geneva, the group Human Rights Watch has issued a new report that accuses the regime of demolishing entire neighborhoods that were considered opposition strongholds. The report, "Razed to the Ground," was issued Thursday and said it found seven cases of "large scale demolitions" in neighborhoods in Damascus and Hama. The first one took place in July 2012 and the most recent was last November. Thousands of families lost their homes, said Human Rights Watch, which released satellite imagery that shows before-and-after photos of the devastated areas. Two are included here, at the top and bottom of the page. The human rights group also said it interviewed 16 witnesses to the demolitions. "Those responsible for the wanton destruction of civilian property or for imposing collective punishment have committed war crimes and should be investigated and held to account." Human Rights Watch went on to say that the Syrian government has given conflicting reasons for the demolitions. In some instances it has described it as necessary to tear down illegal construction and conform with urban planning efforts. But in October 2012, Hussein Maklouf, a governor in the Damascus area, said in an interview that the demolitions were essential to drive out the opposition.

Good morning - here are our early stories: Obama, Romney Trade Jokes; Critics Aim At Obama's 'Optimal' Comment. Malala Stands For First Time Since Being Shot By Taliban, Doctors Say. And these headlines: Ill. Rep. Joe Walsh Says Abortions Not Needed To Save Women's Lives. (Politico) Syrian Jets Drop Cluster Bombs On Rebel Town, Killing Civilians. (AFP) Turkey Retaliates Again After Syrian Shells Fall Into Its Territory. (Al-Arabiya) North And South Korea Trade War Threats Over Provocative Leaflets. (Korea Times) Following Alleged Rape, Curfew Imposed On All U.S. Military Personnel In Japan. (Stars and Stripes) Amtrak High Speed Train To Travel 110 MPH In Illinois Today In Midwest. (AP) Sandusky Seeks New Trial, Claims Insufficient Evidence To Convict Him. (CNN)


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Question: 'Raya And The Last Dragon' Soars

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Much will, and deservedly should, be made of the setting of the gorgeously wrought Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon: A fantasy world drawn from a variety of Southeast Asian cultures. For a company that's been setting so many stories in the same Generically European Fairy Tale Kingdom since 1937 (most recently in 2010's Tangled) it's another in a series of long-overdue steps toward making the world depicted onscreen look more like the world off of it. That's a noble goal, and an unalloyed Good Thing — but of course it also happens to be good for Disney's bottom line. Kids yearn to see themselves onscreen; more representation of different cultures means more kids can more directly avail themselves of the Disnefied thrills that white kids have taken for granted for decades. Nationally and globally, that means more enthusiastic butts in (real or virtual) seats.  What's more, the specific setting of Raya -- a land divided into five nations — potentially allows for a degree of specificity, with respect to discrete Southeast Asian cultural touchstones. And specificity, of course, is what seals the deal. Sharply observed and knowingly deployed cultural details are what transform the broad and abstract concept of onscreen representation into vivid, living stories with the power to reach into us and make us feel that our experiences are not simply valid and worthy, but that they have the potential to inspire others who may not share those experiences. But Disney, at the end of the day, is gonna Disney. This is a company with a long history of throwing different cultures into its narrative Cuisinart, whether Maori and Polynesian (Moana) or Swedish, Norse, Danish and Icelandic (Frozen) or ... basically, all of Europe (Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Tangled). The crucial difference, of course, being that European and Scandanavian cultural mashups are thick on the ground, while depictions of Southeast Asian culture(s) in American media remain few and far between. So it's dispiriting, if not exactly surprising, to see some less-than-enthusiastic reactions from critics of Southeast Asian descent, ranging from the film's broad, salad-bar approach to the five nations it depicts (a bit of Muay Thai here, a Vietnamese floating market there, some Indonesian architecture there, etc.) to the fact that much of its main voice cast is composed of East Asian actors. Disney needs to get better at this, and those knowing, coming-from-inside-the-house critiques offer them a solid, actionable path forward. Here's something that Raya and the Last Dragon gets clearly and unambiguously right, however: the Disney Princess as flawed hero. Pop quiz, hotshot: What was Cinderella's defining character trait? Belle's? Ariel's? Rapunzel's? Their "I want more than this" yearning and determination, you say? Wrong. That's a opening song, a statement of principles, not a personality.  Here's the answer: They didn't have personalities. No inner lives. No conflicting impulses. And that — in addition to their esophagus-with-hipbones body frames, and eyes so large they could have been creatures who've evolved to life in benthic caverns — is what makes them seem so flat, one-note and passive.  Raya, voiced marvelously and with deftly nuanced emotion by Kelly Marie Tran, is a Disney princess, technically: She's the daughter of Chief Benja (voiced by Daniel Dae Kim) in a land called Heart. But she's a lot more than that — she's a warrior, for one thing (the film's numerous fight scenes are thrillingly choreographed). And she's something else, something no Disney Princess before her has been: She's complicated. Specifically, she's got trust issues. Big ones. Which makes sense, given that it was a sudden but inevitable betrayal that kicked off the glorified fetch quest that forms the film's plot.  If you're not paying strict attention during Raya's opening monologue, you'll miss a whole lot, so here's the gist: The land was once whole and good and peopled with (dragoned with?) lots of dragons, but then some purple cloud-monsters came along and turned most everyone to stone. The last dragon remaining, named Sisu, unleashed a great power from a spherical gem, which banished the purple bad guys, but she disappeared in the process. In the aftermath, the people divided into five warring, mutually distrustful nations named for different parts of a dragon — Talon, Fang, Spine, Tail and Heart. Five hundred years later, an attempt at peace talks results in the dragon gem getting shattered into five pieces. Raya and her adorable pillbug pal/mount Tuk-Tuk set out to find Sisu and recover the five shards, reuniting the land and the people in the process. From that elevator pitch, you may perhaps can discern that the basic mechanics of Raya's plot comprise your standard fantasy epic starter kit. Where the film comes brilliantly alive is in the details: The stunning landscapes, the bustling cities, the vocal performance of Awkwafina as Sis

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In the past year, calls to defund police departments have increased after a series of high-profile killings by police. NPR looks at one city that implemented big police funding cuts — Austin, Texas.

Good morning - here are some stories we're following today: Luxury Cars Do Poorly In New Type Of Crash Test. Unsealed Documents 'Hint At The Evidence' In Colorado Shootings. N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, Fla. Senator Marco Rubio To Give Key Speeches At Republican National Convention. (National Journal) Western Wildfires Destroy Homes, Leave One Firefighter Dead. (AP) Defected Syrian Prime Minister Claims Assad Regime Is Collapsing. (BBC) In A Change, Iran Now Welcomes Aid For Earthquake Victims. (VOA) French Youths Clash With Police For Second Night. (Reuters) Violence Turns Deadly Between Two Unions At South African Platinum Mine. (AllAfrica.com) Educational Accrediting Agency Issues Warning To Penn State. (USA Today) Conn. Woman Wrongly Billed For 25 Years For Streetlights, Gets Refund. (Hartford Courant)


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General Motors said U.S. sales of its cars and trucks rose nearly 50 percent in February compared with the same month last year. In all, GM sold more than 200,000 cars — including 18,000 or so of its new fuel-efficient Chevy Cruze models. The company says the brisk sales were the result a better economy and attractive financing. But there are clouds on the horizon for GM and other automakers: high fuel prices caused by unrest in the Arab world.

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The townspeople of LaPorte, Ind., anxiously await word of the fate of neighbor Jeffrey Ake. The contractor was in Iraq on business when he was taken captive at a water treatment plant near Baghdad.

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Fan Fare, The History of Rookwood Pottery, More Fun Than Bowling, Sugarcane Academy, Brasilia, Eclipse: Twilight, Book 3


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In a hearing in Detroit last week, the federal government argued againts hearing a case that challenges its domestic surveillance program. The Justice Department says it cannot talk about the program because to do so would compromise national security.

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Commentator Matt Miller explains his objections to the "Patients' Bill of Rights."


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Health insurance in America is complicated and is a challenge for the business of health care and is also a political football. This week, moderator Terry Phillips leads a discussion about the current state of health care with guests who are truly experts. Dr. Varoujan Altebarmakian, MD is Physician-in-Chief at Kaiser Permanente in Fresno; Tom Epstein is Vice President of Public Affairs for Blue Shield of California; Mark Keppler is the Executive Director of the Maddy Institute at CSU Fresno.

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A discussion with Bloomington, Indiana Mayor Mark Kruzan. Originally aired 19 December 2007.


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Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme came to a dramatic end this week — with a sentence of 150 years in prison. But the investigation into the crime has just begun.  Sources close to federal prosecutors say it is likely that 10 or more of Madoff's associates will be charged in the coming months.    Often the big fish is the last one reeled in for a massive criminal case. But Brad Simon, a former federal prosecutor, says there is still this unanswered question: Where did all the money go? Investigators have a personal motivation.  Prosecutors Facing An 'Angry Mob'     "Well, prosecutors as well as the SEC have been asleep at the switch in this case, and so they are feeling enormous pressure to bring in more bodies, because there is an angry mob," Simon says.  They are angry in part because Madoff claimed until the end that he acted alone. That would mean that, for decades, he kept his family members and 200 employees in the dark, single-handedly hiding billions of dollars in losses and producing hundreds of thousands of false documents a year.      Federal investigators aren't buying it. Everyone who worked with Madoff is now under scrutiny. But profiting off the scam isn't enough to lock someone up.  Former federal prosecutors say they have to have two components to bring a case: A person had to know about the fraud and take some sort of action to further the crime. The action part, according to Simon, is easy.    "Prosecutors can find one thing that somebody did. Perhaps they made a phone call or made a solicitation knowing that something they said was not quite right," Simon says. "That could constitute an overt act to get them in the conspiracy.  And once they are in conspiracy, they are liable for all the acts that took place within that conspiracy."  'Willful Blindness?'  Mailing a letter and transferring money are overt acts. But as Madoff court documents reveal, most of that detail work was done by people who may have been ignorant. Prosecutors allege that Madoff specifically hired people without financial experience. The higher-ups at the company are a different story.  "You have to have criminal knowledge and intent, but the government can back into that by demonstrating willful blindness," says William DeVaney, a former prosecutor who now works at a private firm, Venable. "In other words, that Madoff's returns were too good to be true. Any responsible investment adviser should have known that."  Then prosecutors only have to show that the person willfully turned a blind eye to that knowledge.  So far, only Madoff's outside accountant has been charged — but not for knowing about the Ponzi scheme. His charges stem from falsely certifying his audits.      On The Defense  It's not known who else is on the list of people likely to be charged, but the list of people already being targeted in private lawsuits includes Madoff's family: his wife, Ruth; brother, Peter; and his sons, Mark and Andrew.  Also targeted is his chief of staff, Frank DiPascali, and a whole list of outside investment advisers who steered billions of dollars to Madoff through the so-called feeder funds.     Simon, who now defends white-collar criminals, says that the main defense in these kinds of cases is ignorance.     And in the Madoff case, "they will point to the fact that he was quite well-respected in the financial community. He was head of NASDAQ," Simon says. "And if the SEC didn't have reason to suspect him, why should their client have reason to suspect that he was doing anything illegal?"  DeVaney notes that those close to Madoff may get some help from the man who got them in trouble in the first place.  "It's perfectly plausible that Bernard Madoff could end up as a defense witness in one of these cases saying, 'I did all of this alone,' " DeVaney says.  Madoff hasn't shown any willingness to help out prosecutors.  And with a sentence of 150 years of hard time ahead, he doesn't have much incentive. MELISSA BLOCK, host:  Now to the case of Bernard Madoff and the question of whether he could have pulled off a massive Ponzi scheme on his own. Sources close to federal prosecutors say it's likely that ten or more of Madoff's associates will be charged in the coming months.  NPR's Robert Smith reports on what the prosecutors would have to prove.  ROBERT SMITH: Often the big fish is the last one reeled in during a massive criminal case. But Brad Simon, a former federal prosecutor, says there is still an unanswered question, where all the money went plus a personal motivation.  Mr. BRAD SIMON (Former Federal Prosecutor): Well, prosecutors as well as the SEC have been asleep at the switch in this case. And so they are feeling enormous pressure to really bring in more bodies, because there's an angry mob out there.  SMITH: Angry in part because Madoff claims that he acted alone, which would mean that, for decades, he kept his family members and 200 employees in the dark, single-handedly hiding billions of dollars in losses and producing

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Good morning - while we wait for the Supreme Court's health care decision, we're following these stories: 'Hell In The Rearview Mirror' As Coloradoans Flee Wildfires. News Corp. Confirms Split; Rupert Murdoch Will Chair Both Companies. Record-Breaking Heat Moves From Midwest To Mid-Atlantic And Southeast. (National Weather Service) European Union Fiscal Summit Opens, Hopes Dim For Bold Steps. (Reuters) Bosnian Serb Leader Karadzic Acquitted Of One Genocide Count; Still Faces 10 More War Crimes Charges. (AP) Barclays Bank Pays $452 Million In Fines To Settle Interest Rate Manipulation Case. (MarketWatch) Blasts Strike Syrian Capital, Turkey Stations Troops Along Syrian Border. (CNN) Cargo Search Continues For Possible Stowaways At New Jersey Port. (Star-Ledger) Texas Man Sentenced To 40 Years In Houston Stand-Your-Ground Murder Case. (KPRC) German Court Outlaws Circumcision Of Boys As 'Bodily Harm'. (Deutche Welle)


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Michael Cohen, President Trump's ex-attorney, claims Trump knew in advance of a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, CNN reports.

Good afternoon. Sorry for being late in our daily roundup. Here's what has been happening so far today: -- Search For Missing Jet Focuses On Objects Seen Off Australia -- Ukrainian Troops' Departure From Crimea Isn't A Simple Matter -- U.S. Adds To Sanctions On Russian Officials -- Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies -- Reprimand, $20K Fine, No Jail Time For General's Misconduct -- Jobless Claims Stay Toward Lower End Of Recent Range -- Book News: Meg Wolitzer To Publish A YA Novel Inspired By Sylvia Plath


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Last week, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of U.S. v. $124,700 that Nebraska police were correct to seize money from a California man who'd been stopped for a speeding ticket.  A drug-sniffing dog detected the smell of narcotics on the money and on Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez's rental car -- but no drug charges were brought against him. Gonzolez wants his money back. Robert Siegel talks with law professor Robert Goldman, of St. Louis University Law School, who says it's unlikely the man will get the money. ROBERT SIEGEL, host:  A federal appeals court ruled last week in the strange case of a motorist, a cooler full of cash and the scent of narcotics.  Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez of California was driving a rented car in Nebraska when state troopers stopped him for speeding. A trooper asked to search the car and found inside a cooler on the back seat bundles of cash totaling $124,700, which the troopers seized. This was in May 2003.  Mr. Gonzolez has not been charged with any offense but a drug sniffing dog named Rico picked up the scent of drugs on the money and on the rental car. The long and the short of it is this - Mr. Gonzolez is a free man but he's out $124,700. The troopers seized the cash and the appeals court ruled that they had the right to do so.  Roger Goldman is a professor of constitutional law and criminal procedure at St. Louis University Law School.  Professor Goldman, do I have this right that I'm carrying a ton of cash in my rental car and some dog smells cocaine, the government can just seize the money even if I'm not charged with any drug offense?  Professor ROGER GOLDMAN (St. Louis University Law School): Well, the government has to be able to prove that the money that you have in that car is substantially connected to a drug offense and in this case the appeals court found that they did.  SIEGEL: Now there's something about this case that strikes a layman like me as surreal. The case on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit was called United States of America vs. $124,700 in U.S. currency. The money was the defendant in this case.  Professor GOLDMAN: Yes. In these civil forfeiture cases, the defendants can be money. They can be a 1965 Chevrolet. They can be a boat. It's not a criminal prosecution against the defendant. This is actually against the property that was used somehow in an illegal enterprise.  SIEGEL: Kind of hard to defend yourself though if you're a pile of cash.  Professor GOLDMAN: Well, of course the claimants here, Gonzolez and his friends, were the ones who defended themselves in this case.  SIEGEL: Mr. Gonzolez had an explanation for the cash that was, as he told it, harmless. He said that he and some friends wanted to buy a truck in Chicago, so he rounded up a lot of cash and he'd heard it was dangerous to travel with lots of cash, so he hid the cash in the cooler.  He did lie to troopers, evidently.  Professor GOLDMAN: Right. He said he hadn't been arrested, but he said he was scared. But again, the trial judge found the other way and the court of appeals basically reviewed what they call de novo(ph), just because they felt there were no credibility decisions below.  SIEGEL: Now there's at least a lot of folk wisdom to the effect that tremendous amount of money will show traces of drugs on it and rental cars can be used by any number of people.  Professor GOLDMAN: And that was exactly the major point of the dissenting judge in this case, and actually Justice Sutor in a case had once made the same point.  SIEGEL: Is the import of this ruling that we simply consider it suspicious for anybody to carry around a lot of cash?  Professor GOLDMAN: Well, especially if there's, again, this connection to drugs. Cash alone won't do it. But to the extent that all cash has traces of drugs, then you're right.  SIEGEL: And connection to drugs is determined here by Rico the dog.  Professor GOLDMAN: By Rico the dog, but again, there were some other suspicious circumstances. Because the court of appeals themselves actually admitted that there was really no expert testimony on did the dog really find that these folks, money had been involved or was it a trace? They kind of poo-pooed Rico's activities in this case, as a matter of fact.  SIEGEL: If one of our listeners who doesn't deal drugs who's thinking of driving cross country with thousands of dollars in cash, what would be the best advice?  Professor GOLDMAN: Well, you better get new bills and try something other than a cooler.  SIEGEL: Professor Goldman, thank you very much for talking with us.  Professor GOLDMAN: Thank you.  SIEGEL: That's Professor Roger Goldman, law professor at St. Louis University, talking about the case of the United States versus $124,700 in U.S. currency.  Last week, at the appellate level, the money lost.

Good Friday morning, here are our early headlines: Kerry Warns North Korea, But Holds Out Hope For Diplomacy.  Dodgers' $147 Million Ace Greinke Breaks Collarbone In Brawl.  And here are more early headlines: Deadly Spring Storm Exits Midwest, Heads South. (AP) Authorities Intercept Suspicious Package Addressed To Controversial Arizona Sheriff. (Arizona Republic) Bankruptcy Judge Rejects $20 Million Severance For American Airlines CEO. (Dallas Morning News) NASDAQ Cuts Its CEO's Bonus Over Bungled Facebook IPO. (Reuters) Venezuelans To Vote On Sunday For Chavez Successor. (Bloomberg) Bailed Out Cyprus To Ask For Fresh Financial Help. (BBC) Early American Christian Hymnal Could Fetch $30 Million At Auction. (Christian Post) Seaweed Latte, Bacon Coffee Featured At National Barista Competition. (CBS) At Masters Tournament, 14-Year-Old Golfer Plays Beyond His Years. (ESPN)


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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR this week that he's "guardedly optimistic" about the prospects of a coronavirus vaccine being approved by the end of the year.In the meantime, scientists are still learning new things about the coronavirus. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports on improvements in medical treatment for COVID-19 patients, and NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff explains new research on exposure during air travel. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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The New Pornographers in concert. With host Bob Boilen. With stunning vocals from Neko Case and playfully cerebral narratives from songwriters Dan Bejar and A.C. Newman, the Canadian band The New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.  Hear them recorded live from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club originally webcast on NPR.org October 27, 2007.

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