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U.S. forces enter the town of Samarra, north of Baghdad, for the first time in months, in a bid to reinstate the town council and police force in part of Iraq's rebellious Sunni triangle. U.S. troops clashed with insurgents in nearby Fallujah. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Peter Kenyon.

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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Carl reads three quotes from the weeks news: starting with the Beggar in Chief; Bloodthirsty Political Debates and Earth 2.0.

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President Trump is extending a freeze on new temporary work visas for tech and other highly skilled workers.  The extension means hundreds of thousands of foreigners looking to work in the United States will continue to have to wait until at least the end of March before having another chance to attain coveted visas to enter the country.  It is also another example of how the Trump administration is trying to box President-elect Joe Biden in on challenging policy matters.  Trump signed the original proclamation in June, citing the need to protect the U.S. labor force during the coronavirus pandemic. It affects workers in a wide variety of fields, including tech workers who want to enter the country on H-1B visas, seasonal workers in the tourism industry and certain au pairs on J-1 visas.  It was an extension of Trump's earlier "Buy American, Hire American" executive order, which called for federal agencies to take stronger action to enforce immigration laws to protect U.S. workers. The halt was set to expire Thursday, and there was a clash within the White House about what to do about the expiring moratorium.  It was aggressively opposed by business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Associations of Manufacturers, which filed lawsuits and argued it hurt U.S. economic interests.  But advocates who favored tighter immigration restrictions argued the ongoing needs created by the pandemic warranted an extension.  RJ Hauman, head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said Americans should take note if Biden tries to lift the moratorium prematurely.  "While the unemployment rate has fallen, too many Americans are still looking for work and the economic impact outlook remains bleak," he said. "If this proclamation was allowed to lapse, then companies could easily return to exploiting cheap foreign labor."

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Singer Kainani Kahaunaele discusses the title track of her debut CD, called Na'u 'Oe. Kahaunaele wrote the song as part of a Hawaiian language project that incorporated Hawaiian poetry and composition. The song is a tribute to her grandmother, who raised her on the island of Kauai.

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Stories: 1) Saxophone Stylings, With A South-Asian Flair 2) Green Goes Blue With 'Grant's First Stand' 3) 'Her Peers': A Gutsy Anthology Of Women Writers


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Commentator Ed Cullen remembers days when a whole sporting event could be created with a tennis ball and a porch stairway.

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Perseverance perseveres; Barack and The Boss morning zoo; and an utter disaster.

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Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week's news ... Moving on Up, Prez Charming, and Who's Big Gulping now?


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Question: After Five Years, Finding a Way to 'Do It Better'

In a summer full of recent reunions by the likes of Meat Puppets, Crowded House, The Police and The Spice Girls, Imperial Teen has also regrouped after a five-year gap. Often, a hiatus can change the group dynamic or cause a wild reinvention to modernize the core sound that fans grew to love. But judging by The Hair, the TV, the Baby and the Band, the San Francisco band sounds fresh and inspired, picking up where it left off with a collection of crisp three-minute pop songs. Since the mid-'90s, Imperial Teen has been known for its blend of garage-rock, new-wave and shimmering pop-punk. "Do It Better" follows that formula to perfection: Awash in jangly guitars, warm synths and a straight-ahead danceable pulse, the music is plenty infectious. From the rhythmic single-note guitar phrase to the simple vocals, repetition functions as a key ingredient in its own right. While the chorus brims over with soaring hooks, the words reveal a somber undertone of longing and regret. As a deeper meaning surfaces beneath the energetic melodies — "Made a fortune and now it's gone / I held on to it too long" — it's clear that "Do It Better" functions as more than just a glossy, road-trip-friendly pop gem. Listen to yesterday's 'Song of the Day.'

Stories: 1) Mike Judge: Mining Comic Joy From Workplace Pain 2) Mad Mel, Approaching The 'Edge Of Darkness' Again 3) Changing The 'Game,' But Not For The Better


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The report by special counsel Robert Mueller offered a definitive conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Russian president Vladimir Putin famously denied any allegation of Russian interference at a meeting with President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland. Here’s a piece of the report’s findings on interference efforts:  The Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation-a social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States. The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and companies he controlled. Prigozhin is widely reported to have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Read the whole report here.
The Trump Camp officials who cited or retweeted IRA-controlled Twitter accounts were (page 33-34): • Don Jr • Eric Trump • Kellyanne Conway • Brad Parscale • Michael Flynn — Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) April 18, 2019   Another nugget with international implications? The NYT‘s Sharon LaFraniere pulled out this piece from the report:  During the campaign, Paul Manafort discussed with a Russian associate a plan to let Russia control part of Ukraine. Both men believed the plan would require candidate Trump’s assent to succeed (were he to be elected president.) They also discussed the status of the Trump campaign and Manafort’s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states.  And her analysis?  This suggests that Russia was trying to influence the Trump campaign to support a plan that would have allowed Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine, which would have been a huge victory for the Kremlin. Mr. Manafort had shared internal campaign polling data with the Russian associate before their Aug. 2, 2016, meeting — and for some period afterward, the report said.  On the other side of the world, this week the North Korean government reported that the country tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon.” This test comes after talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump fell apart in February. And in Indonesia, sitting president Joko Widodo announced he won reelection. Here’s more on the election’s implications from The Guardian:  Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is an outpost of democracy in a South-east Asian neighbourhood of authoritarian governments and is forecast to be among the world’s biggest economies by 2030. A second term for Widodo, the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite, could further cement the country’s two decades of democratisation.  Widodo’s win is contentious, as the official election results need to be released by May 22. But Widodo’s opponent, Prabowo Subianto, made an early claim that he had won, with 62 percent of the vote. French president Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild Notre Dame within five years. The cathedral was badly burnt in a fire, although the structure of the building was maintained. We talked to the French ambassador to the United States about the resonance of Notre Dame’s architecture earlier this this week.
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Week In Review, On the Money with Chris DiSimio, Queen City Classic Chess Tournament, Forgive Me, The Front Row with Betsy Ross, The Big Screen: City of Men


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Question: FIFA's Sepp Blatter Says U.S. Was Set To Host 2022 World Cup

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In a wide-ranging interview, suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter says the troubles for soccer's world governing body started with his rival Michel Platini — who Blatter says also helped to undermine a push to deliver the 2022 World Cup to the U.S., instead of to Qatar. "The FIFA World Cup or the FIFA president is a ball in the big political power game," Blatter tells Russia's TASS news agency. In addition to blaming Platini, who is one of seven candidates vying to become FIFA's next president, Blatter says political gamesmanship — between the European Union and FIFA, and between the U.S. and Russia — have fueled controversies that have enveloped both Blatter and the sports federation. We'll give Blatter's side of the events that led FIFA's ethics committee to suspend both him and Platini further down. For now, here's how Blatter describes the events of 2010, when FIFA selected Russia and Qatar, respectively, to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments:  "For the World Cups it was agreed that we go to Russia because it's never been in Russia, eastern Europe, and for 2022 we go back to America. And so we will have the World Cup in the two biggest political powers. And everything was good until the moment when [former French President Nicolas] Sarkozy came in a meeting with the crown prince of Qatar, who is now the ruler of Qatar [Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani]. And at a lunch afterwards with Mr. Platini he said it would be good to go to Qatar. And this has changed all pattern. There was an election by secret ballot. Four votes from Europe went away from the USA and so the result was 14 to 8. If you put the four votes, it would have been 12 to 10. If the USA was given the World Cup, we would only speak about the wonderful World Cup 2018 in Russia and we would not speak about any problems at FIFA."  Discussing his own relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Blatter says: "Vladimir Vladimirovich is a good friend of Joseph Josephovich. You know what I like in Russia also is that in difficult situations I still have the full support of President Putin. This is good. And I support him in all discussions, in all situations." In the interview, Blatter also painted varying portraits of the organization he has led for more than four terms as president: "FIFA is not the Swiss bank. FIFA is not a commercial company," Blatter says at one point. But shortly afterward, he states, "Since I became president of FIFA, we have made FIFA a big commercial company," before adding, "this naturally provokes envy and jealousy." As for his relationship with Platini, who is president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Blatter says that while they have been friends, the recent controversies and charges began with the European body's dissatisfaction with him — and that "at the beginning it was only a personal attack. It was Platini against me." From there, Blatter says, things got more political, culminating in his own recent suspension and charges of corruption leveled against his top deputies. Despite those controversies, Blatter was elected to a fifth term as FIFA's leader in May — and then promptly announced that he would resign his post. Platini's name is on the list of seven candidates for FIFA's presidency that was released by the organization Wednesday. FIFA says Platini's name was listed provisionally and that he would formally become a candidate if his ban is revoked before the election in February. Blatter calls the suspensions he and Platini are now under "total nonsense." Telling his version of the events that led to allegations of bribery and corruption, Blatter says:  "When he was chairman of the organizing committee for the France World Cup, he told me at the end of the Cup, 'I would like to work for you.' And I said this is great because we all already worked with him. It was in 1998. And then he said that I am very expensive. I said okay. So he said, 'I am worth one million a year.' I said I cannot pay this, it's impossible. And he said, 'Okay, then pay me later.' So we have made some contract, where he got some money, but not one million. He was working until he was elected in 2002 to FIFA Executive Committee and UEFA Executive Committee. He stopped his working contract because he was then an official of FIFA. He never touched this item until 2010. In 2010 he approached the financial director of FIFA by saying, 'Hey, listen, FIFA owes us money.' I was informed about that and I said, okay let him make an invoice of this what we owe him. And then he said we owe him two million Swiss francs. And then I analyzed that and I said okay. Yes, it's a contract we have made. And it's a principle I have in my life that if you owe money to somebody, then you pay it. Then we paid it. That's all. And this money was not paid for any other reasons."  In addition to Platini, the other candidates for FIFA's presidency include Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Musa Hassan Bility, Jérôme Champagne, Gianni Infantino

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Orlando Sees Worst Mass Shooting On U.S. Soil: What We Know Monday. -- 'That Could Have Been Me': A Change Of Plans Spared These Orlando Residents. -- Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion In Cash. And here are more early headlines: South Korean Ferry In Deadly 2014 Sinking Being Raised. (BBC) South Korea Claims North Korea Hacked Into Documents. (Korea Times) Former Ohio Republican Senator George Voinovich Dies. (Cleveland.com) Thousands Of Civilians Escape Fallujah As ISIS And Iraq Battle. (Reuters) Eritrea Claims Ethiopia Attacked Its Southern Border. (Bloomberg) 80,000 Refugees From ISIS In Cameroon To Return To Nigeria. (AllAfrica.com) England, Russia Face Ejection From Euro 2016 For Fan Violence. (Telegraph) NBA Finals Game 5 Tonight; Warriors' Green Suspended 1 Game. (ESPN)


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Steel tariffs aren't a new idea. Former President George W. Bush briefly enacted steel tariffs. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez about the consequences of steel and aluminum tariffs.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Lloyds Says It Will Block Bitcoin Purchases On Its Credit Cards.  -- Top North Korean Official To Lead Delegation To Olympics. -- South Africa's ANC Meets To Decide Fate Of President Jacob Zuma.  -- CHART: How Trump's Immigration Proposal Compares With Other Plans. -- Vice President Pence To Keep Pressure On North Korea, Despite South Korean Warming. And here are more early headlines: Iraq Says U.S. Starts Drawing Down Its Troops In Iraq. (VOA) Syrian, Russian War Planes Attack Rebel Positions. (Washington Post) The U.S. Government Faces Another Potential Shutdown This Week. (CNN) Trump To Highlight Tax Law Today In Cincinnati. (AP/WKBN) Jerome Powell To Be Sworn In As Federal Reserve Chair. (New York Times)


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Midterm Race Heats up in the Sierra -- Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) of California's 4th District, which includes Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada foothills, has never had much competition. But this election has something different in store. Hear why a seat once considered safe for Republicans is suddenly more competitive. Plus, award-winning soprano Audra McDonald talks about her new album and what it's like to perform in front of her hometown crowd in Fresno.

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Stories: 1) Latino USA Episode 925 2) Latino USA Episode 926


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Larry Thomas reviews the new George Clooney film, Michael Clayton.

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Grand Re-Opening! Dial 1-900-SCOTUS; Animal Kingdom.


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Critic Ted Libbey joins Martin for another of their weekly visits to the PT Basic Record Library. Today they continue their observance of the Brahms Centennial Year by adding recordings of the composer's Symphony No. 2 to the Library's collection.

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Stories: 1) Congressman, Civil Rights Icon John Lewis 2) Journalist, Author Ta-Nehisi Coates


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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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General Motors' recall problems continue to mount. On Wednesday, the automaker announced it was recalling 218,000 additional vehicles from its Chevrolet Aveo line. The daytime running light system in the dashboard of cars from the 2004 to 2008 model years can overheat, melt and cause fires, The Associated Press reports. It's GM's 30th recall this year and follows Tuesday's recall of 2.42 million other vehicles. "GM has recalled more cars this year than it has sold in several years combined," NPR's Renee Montagne said on Morning Edition, "and it's only May." Actually, GM this month has recalled about 5.5 million cars and trucks. All told, the company has recalled 13.8 million vehicles since January at a total cost of $1.7 billion. That's enough to wipe out much of the company's annual profits, according to The New York Times. The recalls are an outgrowth of GM's stepped-up safety efforts — and increasing regulatory scrutiny — in light of its failure to report for years cars with faulty ignition switches that caused at least 12 deaths. As we reported last week, the Transportation Department ordered GM to pay a record $35 million civil penalty for its handling of the recall of more than 2 million vehicles with ignition switch problems. The government said GM violated federal safety laws.

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Protests, Clashes Build Again In Cairo. -- Deal Reached On Greek Debt, Markets Rise In Relief. -- Arafat's Grave Opened, Samples Taken To Be Tested For Poison. Other stories making news: -- "Fiscal Cliff Compromise: Devil Is In The Definition Of Revenue." (It's All Politics) -- Fiscal Cliff Talks "Accelerate." (The Washington Post) -- Bangladesh Factory Fire That Killed More Than 100 "Was Deliberately Set, Officials Believe." (The Guardian) -- "North Korea Suspected Of Planning Rocket Test." (The New York Times) -- Sandy-related Damage In New York And New Jersey Topped $60 Billion, Governors Say. (The Associated Press) -- Dr. Joseph Murray, Who Performed First Successful Kidney Transplant And Won A Nobel Prize, Has Died. (The Associated Press) -- Powerball Jackpot At Record $425 Million — And Growing — Ahead Of Wednesday Drawing. (ABC News)


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David Greene talks to Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio about the breach which involves the data of more than 140 million people. Brown is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee.

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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Federal and state authorities in Kentucky are investigating the mysterious death of 51-year-old Bill Sparkman, a U.S. Census Bureau worker whose body was found in a national forest in the southeastern part of the state.  The circumstances surrounding his death have Sparkman's friends wondering why and officials divulging little about their investigation.   A Busy, Involved Man Bill Sparkman was by all accounts a busy man. A former Eagle Scout leader, Sparkman moved to eastern Kentucky from Florida, took a job as a classroom aide to help his young son in school and got a teaching degree from an online college. He substitute taught and went door-to-door as a part-time census worker. Gilbert Acciardo, the family resource director for Johnson Elementary School in London, Ky., where Sparkman lived and worked, says students looked forward to the days when Sparkman filed in. "They'd say, 'Who's coming over today? Who's going to be watching us today?' And I'd say 'Mr. Sparkman,' and they would be so excited," Acciardo says. "Probably out of all the people that did the after-school care program, he was the most well thought of. I don't know why. They just had a good rapport with him, and he with them." Sparkman received his teaching degree through online classes from Western Governors University, based in Salt Lake City, and he drove to Utah to attend and speak at his commencement. He was battling cancer at the time. "I have to say a very special thank you to the staff and students at Johnson Elementary School in London," Sparkman said during his speech. "I spent nine glorious years there, but the last several months have had their ups and downs, and they have cheered me on through all of it. And I would not be feeling as good as I do without their support." A Quiet Hillside Sparkman's body was found at Hoskins Cemetery, located on a hillside within the Daniel Boone National Forest. It is a tranquil spot, well hidden. Its solitude is disturbed only by the chirping of birds and the rustling of leaves. A pair of discarded latex gloves underneath a tall oak marks the spot where Sparkman's body was discovered.   A rope had been tied around his neck, police say, and looped over a tree branch, but his feet were still on the ground. The man who found Sparkman's body told The Associated Press that he had been bound and gagged, and was nearly naked.  According to the Clay County coroner, on Sparkman's chest, written in a red marker, was the word "fed." His census identification was reportedly taped to his neck.  'Fed' Investigators have been tight-lipped.   "It's a death investigation, which means we've not been able to rule out anything other than natural causes," says Don Trosper, a spokesman for the Kentucky State Police. "There's all kinds of rumors, speculations and innuendo, and we deal in facts."   Among the speculation and innuendo is that Sparkman was killed because of his connection to the federal government. In a statement, the U.S. Census Bureau said it has no information that this tragedy was related to Sparkman's work with the census. Still, it has suspended its field work in Clay County, and the FBI has been assisting the investigation.   The hill country of southeastern Kentucky is rural, and its residents poor. It has been known to harbor some meth labs and a few marijuana growers, according to Police Chief Jeff Culver of nearby Manchester, Ky. But Culver says most people there are friendly, and by no means is the area a hotbed of anti-government sentiment. "I've been here for 20 years — matter of fact, a little over 20 years — and we've never had any anti-government demonstration of any kind," Culver says.  In fact, Culver says, it's just the opposite. "Due to the extremely high rate of unemployment, there's a lot of people here that depend upon the government for assistance," he says.  Confusion And Mystery Acciardo, himself a retired Kentucky state trooper, says he warned his colleague of the dangers of working in rural areas. He said he was most worried that Sparkman might drive off one of the steep, twisting roads.   When students at Johnson Elementary were told of Sparkman's death, some cried. Others wrote on a big card what they would like to have said to him.   Acciardo says it's difficult for everyone, because no one knows what to make of the mystery. "I don't think we've had time to cry yet, and I don't think we've had time to mourn yet, because we want to know what happened to Mr. Sparkman, and we don't know," Acciardo says. "We really don't know the manner of his death. We don't know any of that right now. And until we do know, there won't be any closure for us." 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Happy Friday! We're looking at these stories this morning: Economy Slowed Further In Second Quarter.  Derecho, the Sequel: Storm Roars Over Pennsylvania And New York. In London, The Games Are Afoot. Activists Report Heavy Fighting In Aleppo, Syria's Largest City. (VOA) Chinese Woman Accused Of Poisoning British Man Is Held Incommunicado By Chinese Police. (Washington Post) China Orders Limit To Flooding Coverage After Outraged Victims Start Compiling Private Death Tolls. (AP) Afghan Militant Attacks Against NATO Forces Rose 11% In The Past Three Months. (AP) Cyprus Officials To Charge Man With Plotting Terrorism, Had Tracked Israeli Tourists. (Cyprus Mail) Ousted Head Of Oldest Black U.S. Fraternity Seeks His Job Back In A Georgia Court. (Atlanta Journal Constitution) Bird Hits Boy In The Face On Six Flags Coaster, Causing Minor Injuries. (Asbury Park Press)


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Don’t lie. You watched that video of British Prime Minister Theresa May dancing, right? Let’s say you didn’t. Here it is.
Theresa May reprises her moves to the sound of “Dancing Queen” as #CPC18 speech begins https://t.co/r1zmSjL68c pic.twitter.com/ELOmq4Cw0q — Bloomberg (@business) October 3, 2018   She was dancing before the Conservative Party Conference amid intense negotiations about Brexit. May seemed optimistic about a deal, according to NPR.. “If we stick together and hold our nerve, I know we can get a deal that delivers for Britain,” she said, although she noted that the negotiations were “challenging” for the EU. What’s the status on Brexit negotiations? Other international news caught our eye this week: The U.S. canceled a 1955 treaty that normalized relations with Iran. The New York Times described the move as “largely symbolic.” More from The Times:  In legal terms, the United States withdrawal from the 1955 treaty with Iran does not take effect immediately. The treaty remains in place for one year from any announcement of withdrawal, meaning Iran’s lawsuit will proceed. It was negotiated after the C.I.A. helped stage a coup in Iran that Iranians still cite as a gross violation of the country’s sovereignty. The 1953 coup, code-named Operation Ajax, was engineered by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and installed a government that two years later cemented the treaty with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The treaty sets up commercial relationships, tax structures and access to each nation’s courts. None of that has applied since the 1979 Islamic revolution.  Indonesia is still reeling after an enormous tsunami. Recent estimates put the death toll at more than 1,400 people, with nearly 100,000 homes destroyed in addition to the death toll. Earlier this week we spoke to Louise Comfort, former director of The Center for Disaster Management at the University of Pittsburgh, about the tsunami. Listen here. It’s also Nobel season. The prize for chemistry went to Frances H. Arnold. Arnold is only the fifth woman to win the chemistry award. Her work involves “conducting the directed evolution of enzymes, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions.” Physicist Donna Strickland also won the prize in her field. Strickland’s work laid the foundation to create “the most powerful lasers ever created by humans,” according to The Washington Post.  We’ll catch you up on the global news you need to start the weekend. Text by Gabrielle Healy. GUESTS David Sanger, National security correspondent, The New York Times; author, “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age”; @SangerNYT Vivian Salama, White House reporter, The Wall Street Journal;  @vmsalama Greg Myre, National security correspondent, NPR; co-author of “This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”; @gregmyre1 For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2018 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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From a recently released CD, "Out Classics," pianist John Browning performs the Etude No. 3, Op. 10, by Frederic Chopin. (RCA 09026-68261-2)

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Question: Understanding Technology through a Child's Eyes (Rebroadcast)

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UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES (REBROADCAST): Kids today rarely think of 'technology' as something separate from themselves. Rather, technology is infused into everything they do and see.  So how can grown-ups rethink design ideas based on what the next generation is thinking? Tech Tuesday explores the intersection of technology and child development.  (52 min.)

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Question: Housing Shortage Hurts New Orleans Hotels

The smaller-than-normal crowds at Mardi Gras this week symbolize the lingering impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans' economy. The city's hotels are struggling to recover, but a shortage of workers is hampering their comeback. Hotels make up a significant portion of the city's economy. Before Katrina, New Orleans had 38,000 rooms. By the last count, 28,500 are open. The big downtown hotels that have reopened report staffing at about two-thirds of pre-Katrina levels, says John Williams, director of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration at the University of New Orleans. Three of them haven't re-opened at all. At the Pontchartrain, an elegant, storied hotel of 118 rooms in the Garden District, manager Michael Rosen says he could use more staff -- he's actually doing more business this year than last year at this time.  Wages are up, but it's almost impossible to find housing that hotel workers can afford. Labor is so short, Williams says, hotel dishwashers are starting at $9 an hour. The hotels have resorted to creative solutions, including putting their workers in their own hotel rooms. MICHELE NORRIS, host:  From NPR News this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in New Orleans. I'm Michele Norris.  ROBERT SIEGEL, host:  And I'm Robert Siegel. Here's a comparison that shows how important the hotel business is to this city. Manhattan, at the center of a metropolitan area of more than 20 million people, has 70,000 hotel rooms. Before Katrina, New Orleans, at the center of a metropolitan area of fewer than 2 million, had 38,000. By last count, 28,500 are open, and as tourists vacated those rooms after Mardi Gras some of the hotel staff followed them out of town.  Mr. THOMAS BLAIR (Bell Captain, Hotel Ponchatrain): These are my last people that I'm doing right now. After this I'm going to rest up and try to leave out first thing in the morning.  SIEGEL: That's Thomas Blair. The bell captain at the Ponchatrain. An elegant storied hotel of 118 rooms. It's on St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District. Thomas Blair is a native, he owned a house in New Orleans East that was completely destroyed. He went to Arlington, Texas, where he's now training to be a school bus driver. His manager, Michael Rosen, urged him to come back to work Mardi Gras. Like just about everyone in the tourist industry here, Mr. Rosen is facing a labor shortage.  Mr. MICHAEL ROSEN (Manager, Hotel Ponchatrain): Prior to Katrina, I had a staff of, and this includes banquet servers, which are a sort of on-call, I had a staff of 85. And I now, as of right now today, have a staff of 22.  SIEGEL: Wow.  Mr. ROSEN: Yeah.  SIEGEL: Rosen says the Ponchatrain could use more staff. He's actually doing more business this year than last year at this time. But, even though wages are up, it's almost impossible to find housing that hotel workers can afford.  Mr. ROSEN: It's very difficult now. Rents are a lot higher than they were before. There are less places available. And a lot of the people just don't have the financial wherewithal to pay the newer rents. And a lot of them owned their homes, so they're still trying to deal with insurance settlements, and, you know, God forbid they didn't have insurance, getting money from the federal government or any other sources so they have some money to repair their homes or find somewhere to live. I still have, I still have several employees staying in the hotel. But staffing is our biggest issue because of housing.  SIEGEL: Here's Thomas Blair's situation. If he moved back fulltime, he could count on $15,000 in salary as bell captain. Less than he would make driving a Texas school bus. But he figures he could make another $15,000 in tips. All tolled, 30,000 a year.  Mr. BLAIR: I would come back immediately...  (Soundbite of someone yelling room service)  Mr. BLAIR: ...the moment I can find something I would come back immediately, because it's hard leaving a 20 year job, you know. I mean, to start over again, start afresh. And then my job yet wants me to return, so as much as they want me to return I'd be more than happy to.  SIEGEL: Now, your son also works at the hotel.  Mr. BLAIR: That's correct.  SIEGEL: So the two of you have to find a place to live here.  Mr. BLAIR: That is correct. And my wife and my other two girls. So it's like five of us total.  SIEGEL: So you've got to find a place that has...  Mr. BLAIR: That would be convenient to hold...  SIEGEL: Three bedrooms.  Mr. BLAIR: Three bedrooms,  at least three bedrooms I would like.  SIEGEL: And let's say before Katrina if you'd been looking for such a place, what would you have been willing to spend a month?  Mr. BLAIR: I guess up to $1000 a month.  SIEGEL: If a man needs three bedrooms for his wife, son, two daughters, what's he going to have to pay now? Somewhere within commuting distance to the Garden District of New Orleans?  Professor JOHN WILLIAMS (Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration, University of New Orleans): It's going to be well over $200

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Stories: 1) Is Wall Street At Fault For Mortgage Meltdown? 2) Economy's Woes Mean Housing Crisis For Pets, Too


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Poet Andrea Hollander Budy talks about her work with Prosody Host Jan Beatty. Andrea Hollander Budy's new book, Woman in the Painting, was published by Autumn House Press, 2006. She is also the author of House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Originally aired 01/01/08

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My last column, concerning NPR's handling of the 'Muhammad  cartoon' controversy, generated a large response from visitors to NPR's Web site.     This cartoon first appeared some months ago in a Danish newspaper. It appears to show the Prophet Muhammad  as an advocate for violence. NPR listeners, who heard about the implications of the cartoon's impact, clearly expected more from the network. The majority who have contacted me are convinced that NPR should have posted the offending cartoon on its site.  But NPR's vice president of news, Bill Marimow stated that: 	...the cartoon is so highly offensive to millions of Muslims that it's preferable to 	describe it in words rather than posting it on the Web. In this case, I believe that 	our audience can, through our reports -- on radio and the Web -- get a very 	detailed sense of what's depicted in the cartoon. By not posting it on the Web, we 	demonstrate a respect for deeply held religious beliefs.  Of the hundreds who wrote to me, more than 70 percent insisted that NPR was wrong not to show the cartoon, while 20 percent agreed that NPR did the right thing in not reprinting any of the drawings to avoid exacerbating tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims. The remaining 10 percent expressed frustration over being forced to choose between the two legitimate values -- freedom of speech and religious tolerance -- that now seem to be in conflict.   I appreciate these e-mails because they so passionately express, in different ways, the listeners' commitment to a news media that exists to serve this democracy and the sense of agonizing concern that the "Muhammad  cartoon" has evoked. This issue will likely not go away soon, nor should it, since it speaks to the core values of American journalism. But for now, the last words should go to the listeners: 'Where Fear Rules'  Once again, violence intimidates, religious fundamentalism intimidates. Of all the institutions in this country I thought I could trust NPR to not be intimidated. I am saddened to be wrong. Democracy cannot survive without a free and unintimidated press. Sadly, even our best and brightest institutions fail us in times where fear rules. 						John Jaster  'Disappointed'  After giving the topic much thought and moving from "display 'em" to "no need to display 'em" and back to "display 'em," my reasoning is that a link on the NPR site, with an appropriate disclaimer, would display the usual respect you show your listeners.  The cartoons, which I found through Slate, helped me understand the issue more fully. Susan Prince  'No Backbone…'  	Most of the U.S. media, including NPR, have shown no backbone... The cartoons 	are the story.  It shows that defending freedom of the press, something NPR, 	among many other news media, have vehemently done on many occasions, is 	only done when it's easy and will not bring repercussions against the party 	involved. 						E. Hobbs   Respect for Beliefs…  Thank you, NPR, for not printing the cartoon that offended so many Muslims.  I am an evangelical Christian who lived in Saudi Arabia so I am fanatical about freedom of speech! However, I am not fanatical about deliberately trashing someone else's religious beliefs. 						Kathy Fisher   Unbiased Source?  	NPR prides themselves on being an unbiased source of news, yet (you) take the 	view that the risk of upsetting Muslims, is more important than the rights of…	listeners to see the cartoons. 						Ian Moss   Satire Is Valued  I am deeply disappointed in the choice not to show the cartoons.  In the free world press, political satire is expected and valued.  In the free press news, facts and pictures of the good, bad and ugly are the news.  The response only points out [how] an unopen society cannot absorb opinions of others, no matter how distasteful. 						Marlene Effren  'Agree with NPR…'  I agree with NPR's decision not to show or link to the now-infamous cartoons sparking violent reactions overseas. Your point about free speech as achieving a journalistic goal is well-put and lacking in most discussions of this topic. Free speech is a wonderful thing, but there's a point where a message can be so offensive to a certain audience -- whether or not we agree with their interpretation or their reaction (which is at this point 'ridiculously violent') -- that it ceases to be a representation of free speech that actually does something for the people.   						Doug Merritt    'Not the Least Bit Offensive...'  I am a Norwegian and have seen the cartoons. They are not the least bit offensive compared to other depictions of, let's say, Jesus, that have been printed throughout time. Seeing the cartoons will shock people, for if those innocent cartoons are considered blasphemous, then nothing questioning Islam should by implication be printed. Without the publication of the cartoons no fully informed decision can be made by your readers. You say that one should not publish lest one hurt religious feelings; I say that one cannot gra

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Parishioners from the church in Marshfield struck up a friendship with a business nearby: a strip club. When the club's owner decided to sell, he knew the church wanted to build a community space.

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Question: Late Night Gets 'Sassy'

Twenty-two-year-old Jake Sasseville likes to straddle the edge between the mainstream and the extreme. That's the premise of his new nightly talk show, "The Edge with Jake Sasseville," which premiered last week on some 40 stations nationwide. The show about a show is a hybrid between reality TV and late night talk, "unscripted like Larry Sanders."  "It's a behind-the-scenes look at how a 22-year-old hustles his own show, so there are unflattering clips," he told the Bryant Park Project in an in-studio interview. "They film me at my house when I'm not ready to rock. But that's OK!" The young television host started his television career on Maine public access when he was just 15 years old. His staff is so committed that they have stayed with him even at times they haven't been able to get paid.   Sasseville says he wants to brand himself as a voice of his generation.   "When I was putting together this show ... I thought, 'My gosh, I need to be able to embody what this generation is all about, which is just doing it on your own terms, starting things, making it happen, moving forward and hustl[ing] it up."

Stories: 1) 'Colbert Show' Back From Iraq 2) Wussy: Strong Work, And Not Without Pain


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President Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus. President Trump joined several other world leaders in testing positive, including President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Fighting broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over disputed land, leading to more than 100 deaths in what is the heaviest instance of conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in years. Now, Russia and members of NATO are considering courses of action if the conflict continues to escalate. Protests have erupted inVenezuela over power cuts and a lack of fuel and drinking water. More than 100 demonstrations occurred across the country. The government has deployed riot police and they have occasionally clashed with protesters. This week, Pope Francis declined to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In turn, the secretary met with other Vatican officials opposed to Pope Francis, and continued to criticize the pope’s relationship with the Chinese government. But while the two ostensibly clashed over foreign policy, there’s likely more to the (lack of) meeting. More from The New York Times:  an appeal for Catholic support.
 Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, was asked whether Mr. Pompeo had sought to manipulate the Vatican for political purposes. “Well, that’s one of the reasons that the Holy Father is not receiving the secretary of state,” he said. Cardinal Parolin said he had no evidence that Mr. Pompeo’s article and visit were meant to aid the president’s re-election, “but it is a thought that can be made.”  And over a million people around the world have died of COVID-19. We cover all the most important stories from around the globe on the News Roundup.

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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: Tour De'bola; Failure to Launch; Our Natural Selection Father Who Art In Heaven.


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Question: Cian Nugent: Flourishing In Mistakes

It's  been three years since Cian Nugent released Childhood, Christian Lies  & Slaughter, a solo guitar album recorded at his fourth-ever live  performance ("Knots" appeared in our Second Stage series). The Dublin, Ireland-based guitarist was all of 19  then, influenced by a then-thriving American Primitive revival led  by the likes of Glenn Jones, James Blackshaw and the late Jack Rose (who, I will always mention, is sorely missed every day). That music  hasn't gone away; in fact, at the moment, I'm stunned by the raw talent of younger  performers like Daniel Bachman (a.k.a. Sacred Harp) and Sam Moss. On  his second record, Doubles, Nugent (no relation to Mr. Cat Scratch  Fever) has developed considerably. His roots are still firmly in  the droning acoustic meditations of John Fahey — as heard on the  side-long, mostly solo guitar piece "Peaks & Troughs" — but are more haunting  and moodier for all their tangents into abstract figures. But it's the B-side that stretches Nugent  further. "Sixes  & Sevens" begins soli with light percussion, but at 3:09, the band  enters and suddenly we're snatched off the curb for a cinematic drive.  With drums, woodwinds, viola, brass and organ, the 24-minute track studies a soul in rapturous torrent. It calls to mind Jim O'Rourke's  instrumental Americana masterworks like Bad Timing or The Visitor, but  it's looser and more prone to turn melancholic despite flourishes of bright  brass. When  I emailed Cian Nugent for a little background on "Sixes & Sevens," I  never expected a full story. To understand his passion as a music-maker, read how much time has changed his approach to songcraft; as he  says, Doubles "wouldn't really have been possible to do without making  those mistakes." "I kind of  had to make up the rules as I went along." Cian Nugent:  Thinking  back about the development of this piece leaves me feeling slightly  baffled. I know that for quite a long time it existed as quite an  obsession for me. I felt that there was a way I wanted it to be, and I  took a long time to figure out how I could achieve that. When I began  work on it, I really didn't know where it was going to go and where it  did end up going was, for me, quite unprecedented; as a result, I kind of  had to make up the rules as I went along. The  first elements of it emerged around three years ago in the form of  various different guitar parts that I felt connected somehow, but needed  a logic and flow to them that wasn't there at the time. Over the course  of a few months, I looked for pathways through the piece that would  make sense, or if not, to at least have reason not to. There were a few  key changes that took me quite a long time to figure out how to get  through in a way that I liked. Over time, I had a few eureka moments  where new routes revealed themselves to me and connected some of the  sections. Initially, I was approaching writing it in a similar way to  how I had approached writing shorter pieces in the past, putting a few  different sections together in a way that I thought worked, but with  this one it just seemed that it should make sense for it to be longer.  After a while, I found that I had a piece of about 12 minutes on my hands  that I didn't think dragged on too much and I liked all of the sections  of. As far as I can remember, this piece had pretty much all of the same  sections as the finished piece does, but in a condensed solo guitar  form. Around  a year before this time, I had started to play in a duo with a friend of  mine called David Lacey. I had been bringing my solo guitar pieces to  David and he had been playing some percussion along with them, some  quite abstract parts and some more direct rhythmic percussion. So I  brought this longer piece that I had been working on to him. As soon as  we began to play it together, and gave each other room to do our thing,  12 minutes turned into around 18 or 20. I remember the first day we  played it together, walking along the canal in Dublin and being really  excited to have started work on it, I felt it was pretty strong and was  jazzed to play it live. Over the course of the next few months, we played  this duo arrangement of "Sixes & Sevens" around Dublin and honed  our chops on it until we had it where it seemed like it was about ready  to be committed to a recording. As we had been playing it live, I began  to hear the possibility of other instruments fitting in nicely with it  and filling out the sound. The one instrument I had my mind set on was  clarinet, so I thought of my friend Chris Hladowski from Bradford,  England, one of the finest musicians I know, and asked him if he might  be on for coming to Dublin to play on the record. Chris kindly obliged,  so we arranged to do some recording and a tour around Ireland for his  bands Nalle and the Family Elan. As things developed, I wanted to  translate what I was doing with a solo instrument into a broader musical  context to try to draw on more of the differen

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Question: Will Gun Bill Pass Or Fail? Conflicting Signals Yet Again

Here's a fresh headline that may be welcome to those who oppose the bipartisan plan to extend background checks of gun purchasers to sales made at gun shows and over the Internet:  "Rifts In Both Parties Complicate Odds For Gun Measure." (The New York Times, behind its pay wall.)  But wait, if you support the plan from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, there's this:  "Manchin-Toomey Bill Inching Closer To 60 Votes In Senate." (The Hill)  The best way to look at what will happen may be reflected in this passage from The Washington Post:  "Officially, only three Republican senators — Toomey, Collins and Mark Kirk (Ill.) — have said they plan to vote for the Manchin-Toomey agreement. Democratic aides say the bill will need the backing of at least six Republican senators to pass. The [broader gun] measure still has a long and tortuous path, with dozens of amendments expected. The Senate is scheduled to begin formal debate Tuesday by first considering the plan to expand the gun background-check program."  It all sound much like what we wrote one week ago: "Blocked Or Breaking Through? Mixed Signals On Gun Bills." That was followed by the Manchin-Toomey "break through." According to The Associated Press, a vote on the Manchin-Toomey proposal could come as soon as Wednesday. Even with the uncertainty, it's seen as the most likely proposal to pass among a series of measures that include a proposed ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

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Before Valentine's Day, love is in the air. But sometimes, love hurts. It's a harsh reality that many Mexicans deal with by listening to rancheras, traditional songs from Mexico's countryside that you can put on when you need a good cry. One young woman found a connection to her ancestors through the sounds of guitars and tears.   A longer version of this story originally aired on NPR's Latino USA.

Stories: 1) How 'Italian Food' Became A Global Sensation 2) Cyro Baptista: Sounds From Everywhere, Evoking Home 3) How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick 4) 'We're Broke': Empty Bank Accounts, Empty Meaning?


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Listen in to our earlier conversation with MARTHA HODES, author of "The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century." Hodes is professor of history at New York University.

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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: "The Trump Family Vacation," "Apocalypse Soon" and "Big Bambi."

Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week's news ... Moving on Up, Prez Charming, and Who's Big Gulping now?


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All Things Considered reads from your letters on Thursdays. This week's topics: SUVs in Las Vegas; hand washing and germs; and the politics of columnists.

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Secretary of State Debra Bowen¿s new report on the number of registered voters in [...]

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Late word this afternoon that the initiative has been filed for funding the health care reform plan now awaiting state Senate approval, with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez as its official authors.
The initiative asks voters to approve a financing plan to pay for the $14 billion a year reform proposal, and includes [...]

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Question: Hotel Rooms Still Available in Athens

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on hotel rooms still being available in Athens during the Olympic games this summer.

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Good morning: here are our early stories: Chinese Author, Mo Yan, Awarded 2012 Nobel Prize In Literature. Presidential Candidates Set Their Sights On Colorado's Latinos. And here are more early headlines: Biden, Ryan Prepare For High-Stakes Vice Presidential Debate. (Reuters) Yemeni Guard At U.S. Embassy Killed In Drive-By Shooting. (CBS) Two Die In Florida Parking Garage Collapse, One Still Missing. (Orlando Sentinel) Home Foreclosures Drop To Five Year Low In September. (USA Today) It's The 50th Anniversary Of Vatican II - Why It Matters. (KPCC) No Arms For Syria Aboard Passenger Jet Downed In Turkey, Russia Says. (Washington Post) Alice Cooper Opens Rock And Roll Academy In Sioux Falls, N.D. (KDLT) Zombie Alert! Maine Hacker Changes Road Sign To Warn Startled Motorists. (Portland Press Herald)


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The Weekend Edition mailbag gets opened and host Scott Simon dips into its contents.

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Question: Week in Review with Daniel Schorr

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NPR's Scott Simon discusses the week's news with NPR's Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst.

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: Reihan Salam Of 'National Review' On The GOP's Options For Health Care

Senate Republicans still can't agree on their health care plan. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review, about the Republican Party's options.

Good morning. Our early headlines: -- Wednesday's  Web 'Blackout' By Wikipedia, Others: Right Way To Protest? -- Hopes  Are Fading For Missing In Italian Cruise Ship Disaster. -- Fuel  Is Flowing To Nome Through Half-Mile Hose Laid Over Ice. -- Egypt's  Wael Ghonim: 'Revolutions Are Processes ... It Will Take Time.' Other stories in the news: -- " 'Food Stamp President': Race Code, Or Just Politics?" (Morning Edition) -- "Romney On Defense From GOP Rivals In S.C. Debate." (The Associated Press) -- "S&P Extends Gains, Rises Above 1,300." (Reuters)


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Question: Pakistan Fears Afghan Spillover Of Chaos, Refugees

Burhan Khan can't remember exactly when he fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan. He thinks it was about 30 years ago. "Because there was war. There was killing, there was murdering, there was firing, and they wanted to kill me, and they wanted to kill my children, so I had to come here," he says. It was the final phase of the Cold War, and CIA-armed Afghan guerrillas were fighting to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Khan and his family wound up where they are today, in a mud hovel on a patch of wasteland outside Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Khan is 60, though his full white beard and deeply lined face make him look a lot older. He survives by hauling vegetables in a market. He has never returned to his home, in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province. He feels it's still too dangerous to try. "We can't go there because if we go, we will die there, our children will be killed; everybody is still killing us there," Khan says. Each big new conflict in Afghanistan over the past three decades has unleashed a wave of refugees, many of whom have returned home. Yet Pakistan still has some 1.7 million refugees — mostly Afghans — on its soil. Pakistanis fear another wave will arrive because of the fallout after 2014 from the drawdown of U.S. and NATO forces. There is widespread concern the drawdown will be followed by a civil war in Afghanistan that will spill over into Pakistan, causing more violence in an already unstable nation. Leading Pakistani analysts say that prospect has led their country's policymakers to change tactics toward its neighbor. External And Internal Threats Pervez Hoodbhoy, a leading Pakistani political activist and commentator, says he thinks civil war in Afghanistan is "almost a certainty" after the departure of the international troops. He wants U.S. forces to leave Afghanistan but says their withdrawal should be gradual. Even so, Hoodbhoy is very worried about what happens next. "It's going to be ugly, bloody, and no one is looking forward to 2014, except for the Taliban," he says. Pakistan is going through a particularly rocky period in its turbulent history. The economy is in crisis. Conflict between Pakistani government forces and homegrown Islamist insurgents, including the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Hoodbhoy believes if he's right — and there is an Afghan civil war — refugees won't be the only threat to Pakistan. "We will see the Taliban will become much bolder," he says. "There will be a feeling among Islamist forces in this country, and not just the Taliban, that with the Americans now out of here, it is now time for an Islamic revolution in Pakistan." Fear that they'll soon face another bout of chaos and bloodshed is preying heavily on the minds of Pakistan's rulers. A Shift In Policy Pakistan's military and intelligence services determine the country's Afghan policy. And some analysts see a significant shift in that policy, brought about by Pakistan's desire to avoid more instability and violence. "I think Pakistan has learned its lesson," says Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington. "It recognizes that in Afghanistan peace can prevail only where there is power sharing among the various ethnic groups." Fatemi says he has spoken to many people in key positions, who tell him "that they now recognize that these ambitious plans of wanting to determine Afghanistan's destiny was not only a failed policy, but was a policy that caused us immense harm." That policy is linked to Pakistan's constant worry about being sandwiched between two hostile countries. Its old enemy, India, lies to the east. So for years, Pakistan sought to influence events in Afghanistan, to the west, by supporting its majority ethnic group, the Pashtuns. Pakistan helped the Taliban come to power in the mid-1990s. In recent years, Islamabad has often been accused of covertly supporting certain Pashtun militant groups, including the Taliban and the Haqqani network. With its own large population of Pashtuns, Pakistan has worked on the assumption that a Pashtun-run Afghanistan would be friendly and, it hoped, compliant. Maleeha Lodhi, also a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington, says that's all changed. "One of the biggest mistakes that Pakistan made in the past is that it saw somehow a Pashtun solution to Afghanistan, whereas now it sees an Afghan solution to Afghanistan," Lodhi says. She says Pakistan no longer talks about seeking a friendly government in Kabul, just a stable one. "If any group is excluded from power then there will be trouble in Afghanistan. That is the lesson from history that Pakistan has learned," she says. Deep Divisions Remain But have Pakistan's policymakers really learned that lesson? Zahid Hussain has written several books about Pakistan and Islamist militancy. 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Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Among La. Flood Victims, 'Depression Levels Are Really High'. -- Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake In Central Italy Reportedly Kills Dozens. And here are more early headlines: Turkey Sends Tanks, Fighter Jets Into Northern Syria. (BBC) Biden Visiting Turkey As Anti-ISIS Offensive Begins. (VOA) North Korea Test Fires New Ballistic Missile Into Sea Of Japan. (CNN) Deadly New Bombings In Thailand. (Sydney Morning Herald) Monsoons Trigger Deadly Flooding, Evacuations In India. (Weather.com) Bergdahl Lawyers Claim Sen. McCain's Comments Hurt Case. (USA Today) Former U.N. Leader Annan To Advise Myanmar On Status Of Rohingyas. (AFP)


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Question: Memo To The Rest of You...

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In the latest political love poem from the national media to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the new edition of Esquire magazine proclaims that the governor is leading the nation into a ¿new kind of politics.¿

The March cover story, ¿The President of 12% of Us,¿ takes a quick tour of recent political goings-on in California en route to [...]

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert weren't the only funny ones at The Rally  to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall Saturday. Here are  some of the signs we spotted throughout the day. God Hates Snuggies I Was Told There'd Be Cookies. We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself, And Spiders. Kitlers Against Hitler Analogies Government Doesn't Suck Real Patriots Drink Whiskey Don't Tread On Anyone That's No Moon Hyperbole Or Instant Death Slogans Are Crap I Stand 4 Good Posture I'm A Veteran. I'm An American. I Am Muslim. I Support The Right To Arm Bears Calm The F*** Down America Fear Is Illogical Just Stop Bickering And Clean This Mess Up THIS FONT IS BIG Going Out Of Business Everything 70-80 Percent Off I Am Moderately Excited For This Stand On The Right, Walk On The Left You Don't Have To Be Nice, Just Don't Be Mean Libraries Are Socialist Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet I thought Neil Young was going to be playing 1 Percent Sane, 98 Percent American, You Do The Math! Olivia Munn Fan (No ...  Really ...) Fear Gives Me A Boehner My Wife Is A Muslim And Not A Terrorist, But I'm Scared Of Her Anyway Abide CAPSLOCK IS NOT PERSUASIVE Festivas For The Rest Of Us I Heart Beck's Album Mellow Gold It Was His Best In My Opinion Senate Math 41 > 59 Yelling Rarely Works ... I Know, I'm A Mom! Don't Stomp On My Head, Bro


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Question: News Roundup for Friday January 12, 2007 - Hour 2

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A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week's top news stories.

Stories: 1) Latino USA Episode 872 2) Latino USA Episode 873 3) Latino USA Episode 874


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Question: Linguist Geoff Nunberg

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the obscurity of the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news...Ted Talk, Slow Bern, Queen B Stings


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Question: Listener Limerick Challenge

The crisis for shuttlecock users; the pill we all could use; the moon of the moon.

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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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Question: The Short List: Buzzed in Translation

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Producer Monica Mueller offers an intoxicating new "short list," an audio riddle that's sure to warm listeners from Munich to Milwaukee. The short list series is produced with help from the independent producers at Transom.org.

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


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Question: Friday News Roundup - Domestic

With guest host Celeste Headlee. Sniping among Republicans went from the halls of the Senate to the floor of the chamber to the White House lawn this week, as outgoing Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake took aim at President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, reports confirmed and deepened what had previously been suggested — that Democratic operatives had helped pay for the now-infamous dossier on President Trump. But while it was known that Democrats had helped finance the research, “until now, though, the dossier had not been tied specifically to the Clinton campaign or the DNC,” the Washington Post reports. A legal battle over an immigrant teenager’s abortion flared up and was resolved. And in Puerto Rico, a small firm in charge of restoring power to the hurricane-ravaged island apologized after fighting with the mayor of San Juan on Twitter. We’ll recap these stories and more on the Friday News Roundup. GUESTS Eugene Scott, Political reporter, The Washington Post Lauren Fox, Congressional reporter, CNN Olivier Knox, Chief Washington correspondent, Yahoo! News Yochi Dreazen, Foreign editor, Vox; author, “The Invisible Front”; co-host of a new podcast called “Worldly” For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2017 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.

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Question: Health Care Financing Initiative Filed

Late word this afternoon that the initiative has been filed for funding the health care reform plan now awaiting state Senate approval, with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez as its official authors.
The initiative asks voters to approve a financing plan to pay for the $14 billion a year reform proposal, and includes [...]

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Question: Census Work To Resume In Puerto Rico And Rural Areas Of 11 States

More than two months after the national roll-out of the 2020 census, most households in Puerto Rico are set to finally receive official instructions on how to participate in the count starting next week, the Census Bureau announced Friday. The coronavirus outbreak forced census field operations on the island to stop in March, but census workers are now scheduled to resume leaving paper forms outside of front doors beginning May 22. The bureau says it's providing personal protective equipment to its employees, who are expected to follow all of the island's lockdown and curfew requirements in addition to social distancing protocols. The bureau also announced on Friday that it's sending out workers as early as next week to drop off questionnaires in more stateside rural communities, including in parts of Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island and Wyoming. The two-month suspension of census field operations in these areas has led to low self-response rates, raising concerns about undercounts that could have devastating long-term implications on the share of the estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funding communities receive based in part on their population counts from the once-a-decade census. With the national self-response rate pushing past 59% as of Thursday, Puerto Rico is trailing behind by more than 51 percentage points, at just over 8%. Under the island's stay-at-home orders, most of Puerto Rico's residents have been left out of the barrage of census mailers many stateside communities have seen since March. Two years ago, the Census Bureau decided that hand-delivering questionnaires, instead of mailing them, would be the most reliable way to conduct the head count in Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria. While census work returns to Puerto Rico and a growing list of rural areas in the states, some of the country's most vulnerable populations continue to face uncertainty about how they will be included in the census. As of Friday, the bureau has not released new plans for counting people experiencing homelessness, or for leaving forms outside of homes in some American Indian tribal territories. The bureau has said it suspended those operations to protect the health and safety of its workers and the public. "We made the move knowing we could still achieve a complete and accurate count — and are working closely with tribal leaders to determine the right time to resume this important operation," the bureau said in a statement Friday. The bureau tells NPR in an email that it is trying to reach more historically undercounted groups by buying print, search and other digital ads about the census in 33 additional languages, including Bengali, Farsi, Hindi, Navajo and Nepali. Still, a U.S. Government Accountability Office report released on Wednesday warned that social distancing requirements could undermine efforts to accurately count groups caught in the digital divide, especially when door knockers are expected to start visiting unresponsive homes in August to try to complete the count. "Groups with less internet access will be at relatively greater risk of being missed by the census," the GAO report said, if the challenge of maintaining a safe distance from a doorway in apartment buildings or other densely populated spaces reduces the number of households census workers can interview in person.

Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Erdogan, Putin Meet After Months Of Tension Between Turkey And Russia. -- Trump Adviser Says One Of The GOP Nominee's Signature Plans Is 'Not Workable'. -- Crowd Boos Russian Swimmer Caught Up In Doping Scandal. And here are more early headlines: 50 Former GOP Security Officials Sign Letter Critical Of Trump. (U.S. News & World Report) Speaker Ryan Faces Challenger In Primary Today. (AP) Delta Airlines Still Getting Back To Normal After Disruption. (NBC) Locally Acquired Zika Found In New Florida County. (Palm Beach Post) 35 Large Fires Burning In A Dozen States. (National Interagency Fire Center) Pakistan Says 70 Killed In Quetta Suicide Bombing. (VOA) Jailed Ex-Ill. Gov. To Ask For Shorter Sentence. (USA Today) Tropical Storm Javier Weakens Off Mexico's Pacific Coast. (NHC)


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Question: 4 Years... 700,000 More Voters

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(Sorry for the long absence with all of last month¿s big political news¿ as mentioned before, the new little one in the family has kept me away from the hustle and bustle.  Look for more frequent blog entries this month! ¿JM)
Secretary of State Debra Bowen¿s new report on the number of registered voters in [...]

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Question: The Challenge Of Keeping Tabs On The NSA's Secretive Work

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Here's a question with no easy answer: How do you hold the nation's spy agencies accountable — when they control the secrets? Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden apparently thought the answer was to blow the lid off some of the NSA's highly classified programs. He took documents and shared them with journalists. But what about Congress? It's supposed to oversee the NSA — and other spy agencies. For the committees charged with that task, it hasn't been easy keeping tabs on the secretive world of federal surveillance. At the NSA's closely guarded headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., there is little evidence of tension with Congress. A large sign on the wall of the agency's briefing room for visitors reads: "Fully Committed to Protecting the Privacy Rights of the American People." "Everything is vetted, left and right," says NSA briefer Bill Combs of the electronic surveillance carried out there. "The courts look at everything we do, the general counsel, the Department of Justice — we have watchdogs everywhere, and we're glad to have them." According to Combs, the oversight that the NSA welcomes includes Congress. But that's not Thomas Drake's recollection. Drake worked at the agency as a computer expert and ended up a whistleblower. In 2002, the same year he testified before Congress, Drake says the NSA set up its own war room to respond to requests for information from Congress. "And the joke that went around NSA was who are we at war with, right, the terrorists or Congress?" Drake says. "It was clear that the priority by NSA leadership was, we're at war with Congress — we're not going to let them know what the truth is. NSA had a lot to hide." At that time, the agency was carrying out a secret program, on orders from then-President George W. Bush, which eavesdropped on Americans without a warrant. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who's on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says lawmakers today are kept much more in the loop than they were then. "I don't know that in recent history we've had any problems with the information that's been shared with the committees," says Burr. "Typically the problem is when information that's meant to stay secret becomes public." That's exactly what happened last year when Snowden disclosed an NSA program that collected and stored the phone records of millions of Americans. Several days after that story broke, House Speaker John Boehner called Snowden a traitor. "I've been briefed on all of these programs," Boehner told ABC's This Week. "There's no American who's gonna be snooped on in any way unless they're in contact with some terrorist somewhere around the world." Squaring Public Vs. Private Knowledge Boehner and other members of Congress may have been briefed on those programs, but simply knowing about them is a long way from having a public debate on their merits and drawbacks. And that's the conundrum about overseeing classified programs — things you learn behind closed doors don't always square with the official line in public. "Again and again, the leadership of the intelligence community has said one thing in public and done quite another in private," laments Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who's also on the Senate intelligence panel. Wyden says he knew some years ago that the NSA was using a secret legal interpretation of the USA Patriot Act to scoop up Americans' personal data without a warrant. But because the program was classified, Wyden was severely limited in what he could say about it publicly. "It, in my view, was really impossible to carry out my duties," he says, "so for months and months, I tried to engage with Director [of National Intelligence James] Clapper to get some straight answers about these statements that were made in public." The opportunity to question the nation's top spy in public came last year at a hearing in March. It was two months before Snowden's revelations, and the exchange between the senator and the intelligence chief would soon become a part of that saga as well. "If you could give me a yes or no answer to the question," Wyden asked Clapper at an open Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, "does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" "No, sir," Clapper replied. "It does not?" asked Wyden. "Not wittingly," answered Clapper. Though Wyden knew Clapper's answer was not correct, he could not say anything at the time because the program remained secret. But when Snowden's revelations about the NSA went public, Clapper was pressed about the answer he'd given Wyden. He called it "the least untruthful" statement he could have made about the secret program. Later, Clapper wrote Congress to say the answer he'd given to Wyden's question had been "clearly erroneous." Limits To Oversight That episode points to another problem overseeing intelligence activities: Officials must still be taken at their word. "You cannot have good oversight by the Congress if the Congress

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Stories: 1) Deadly Insurgents With Ties To U.S. Dollars 2) The Trouble With Health Problems Near Gas Fracking


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Question: It's ScuttleButton Time!

Remember last week's ScuttleButton, where I warned the button faithful that it may not have been the most challenging of puzzles? Well, I'm happier with this week's offering. Either way, it doesn't really matter; President Obama says he will no longer deport those who complain about my button puzzles. But you still have to know how to play. ScuttleButton, as you know, is the once-a-week waste of time exercise in which each Tuesday (more or less) I put up a vertical display of buttons on this site. Your job is to simply take one word (or concept) per button, add 'em up, and, hopefully, you will arrive at a famous name or a familiar expression. (And seriously, by familiar, I mean it's something that more than one person on Earth would recognize.) For years, a correct answer chosen at random would get his or her name posted in this column, an incredible honor in itself. Now the stakes are even higher. Thanks to the efforts of the folks at Talk of the Nation, that person also hears their name mentioned on the Wednesday show (by me) and receives a Political Junkie t-shirt in the bargain. Is this a great country or what? You can't use the comments box at the bottom of the page for your answer. Send submission (plus your name and city/state — you won't win without that) to politicaljunkie@npr.org. And, by adding your name to the Political Junkie mailing list, you will be among the first on your block to receive notice about the column and the puzzle. Sign up at politicaljunkie@npr.org. Or you can make sure to get an automatic RSS feed whenever a new Junkie post goes up by clicking here. Good luck! By the way, I always announce the winner on Wednesday's Junkie segment on TOTN. But with a new puzzle up every Tuesday, more or less, you should get your answer in as soon as possible. Here are the buttons used and the answer to last week's (somewhat lame) puzzle: Think Snow Governor 1984 — Utah state Sen. Karl Snow was a Republican gubernatorial hopeful that year. A white button — That's all it is. Andy Miller is a Great Attorney General — Miller, a Democrat, was re-elected by a landslide in Virginia in 1973. Jon Huntsman President 2012 — Huntsman, a former governor of Utah and President Obama's ambassador to China, dropped out of the 2012 Republican presidential contest after a disappointing showing in the New Hampshire primary. So, when you combine Snow + White + Andy + Huntsman, you may just very well end up with ...  Snow White and the Huntsman. From the movie of the same name. Hey, I warned you it was easy. That's not to take anything away from this week's randomly selected winner, Luigi de Guzman of Fairfax, Va. Really, it's not his fault. In any event, Luigi gets a TOTN Junkie t-shirt. Don't forget to check out this week's Political Junkie column, which focuses on those 91 House members who were first elected to Congress during the 1974 Watergate election: Who they were, how they came to Congress, and how they left. Click here to read the column.

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Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week's news: It's a Bird! It's A Plane! It's Amazon!; The Holy Doorman; Father Stealthmas.


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Question: Former Green Beret Mark Vargas

He's now the area security manager for KBR, a division of Halliburton, a private military firm. Vargas has been stationed in Tikrit, Iraq, for the past year. He talks about the capture of Saddam Hussein, which took place in Tikrit. Vargas is a retired Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Special Forces. He's written the foreword to the new book   Hunting Down Saddam: the Inside Story of the Search and Capture, by Robin Moore.

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Question: White House Spokesman Fleischer to Step Down

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announces he will resign in July to enter the private sector after 21 years in government and politics. Presidential aides say Fleischer's replacement will likely be deputy press secretary and Texas native Scott McClellan, though there are other possibilities. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater.

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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