The explosions hit near a hotel, a prison, a mosque and at an intersection in the southern city of Kandahar, according to local police. The Afghan president's half-brother says at least 30 people died and dozens were hurt.
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This week, Attorney General Eric Holder has been dealing with attacks from Republicans about his handling of terrorism detainees. In addition, the conservative National Review magazine unearthed a Supreme Court brief that Holder did not tell Congress...
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The Obama administration has been hammering health insurance companies all week over proposed rate hikes. But the insurers have fired back, saying their hands are tied because the cost of health care keeps going up. NPR Health Policy Correspondent Julie...
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Listeners respond to the interview with the California lawmaker on the state's practice to destroy most parole files a year after the end of the criminal's parole; and the commentary on Internet pop-up ads. Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from...
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The president's proposed changes call for states to adopt standards that ensure students are ready for college or a career rather than grade-level proficiency — the focus of the current law. The White House also is proposing a $4 billion increase in...
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Iranian officials say that several networks were gathering information on nuclear scientists and finding ways to circumvent Internet controls meant to stymie the opposition. Thirty of their members reportedly were arrested.
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By Nadja Popovich They may not be the Montagues and Capulets, but fans of low-fat and low-carb diets have been locking horns for quite a while. But now, researchers at Stanford University claim they've found a way to resolve this bitter rivalry: look...
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A U.S. official says Colorado mother Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was among seven people — including Colleen LaRose, or "Jihad Jane," of Pennsylvania — arrested in Ireland this week in over an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks for lampooning the...
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It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy...
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In New York City, the workers who cleaned up Ground Zero and got sick from the toxic air at the site now face a difficult choice. Ten thousand police, firefighters and construction workers filed lawsuits against the city after 9/11. They've now been...
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For many small towns, the long, haunting sound of a train whistle is a sign of old world charm. But for people living near those train whistles, the charm wears off quickly. Flagstaff, Arizona, is the latest town to silence its train whistles, after...
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We heard from many of you regarding the long-term unemployed and Scott Simon's essay about the lack of rest stops along Arizona's highways. Guest host Jacki Lyden reads from listener comments and emails.
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This week, the District of Columbia started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. About 150 couples applied for the licenses and soon, there was a flurry of weddings, some in churches, and a few, in an office. Activists felt they had achieved...
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Baseball's spring training is upon us, time for exhibition match-ups, autograph signings and bullpen sessions, all leading up to Opening Day. It's also time for March Madness to begin. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks with sports writer Howard Bryant of...
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In Los Angeles, a 16-year-old boy is facing murder charges for what started as a simple act of vandalism. He was spray painting a wall when he was confronted by Ronald Barron. Barron had committed plenty of crimes in his lifetime, as a member of a violent...
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The gap between the personal wealth of white and black Americans has grown wider. That's the takeaway from a report, released this week by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with Dr. Julianne Malveaux,...
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Six days have passed since Iraq's nationwide elections, and there are still no real results. Last Sunday, about 62 percent of eligible voters defied threats of violence to cast a ballot. Guest host Jacki Lyden gets the latest from NPR's Quil Lawrence...
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The results of Iraq's election could have broader repercussions in the Middle East. Jacki Lyden speaks with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, about reaction in the Arab world to the Iraq elections.
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Seven weeks ago, a documentary filmmaker in Silver Spring, Md., posted a political rant on her Facebook page. "We should start a Red Bull party, a coffee party … Anything but tea!" she wrote. Now 300-plus "Coffee Party" chapters have sprung up across...
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A growing scandal in Europe over child sexual abuse by priests now extends to the Vatican and Pope Benedict. Friday, the Pope's former archdiocese in Germany acknowledged that while he was archbishop, a priest who was suspected of abusing children was...
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Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.
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A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday.
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A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old. The oldest wreck may date back 800 years.
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The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office. But mathematicians say the books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like...
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He's best known for his work with the great New Orleans funk band The Meters, so we're asking George Porter, Jr. three questions about parking meters.
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According to recent VA statistics, PTSD and depression are the top disability claims among America's female veterans. But many have trouble proving they saw combat — a key to being treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. One decorated war veteran's...
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The tiny, no-frills automobile imported from communist Yugoslavia during the 1980s is known to most Americans as the butt of many car jokes. Author Jason Vuic's book about the car, The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History, reveals why...
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By Frank James It's official. As of Friday, the new head football coach at Washington, D.C.'s Coolidge High School is a woman. The Washington Post reported the move was coming earlier in the week. Natalie Randolph, a science teacher, a one-time college...
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His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict XVI was in charge, but said he did not know about the transfer. Criticism is also mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he wrote instructing bishops to keep...
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A publicity still released by Disney shows Ebenezer Scrooge, voiced by Jim Carrey carrying Tiny Tim, voiced by Gary Oldman, in a scene from "A Christmas Carol." (AP Photo/Disney, ImageMovers Digital LLC) By Frank James About 450 people are probably worrying...
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by Patrick Jarenwattananon Some links that we didn't get to blogging about: --The Miles Davis biopic featuring, co-written by, and directed by Don Cheadle will be scored by Herbie Hancock, Paste reports. --Darcy James Argue lists his top five big band...
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By Jon Hamilton The nation's "vaccine court" has once again concluded that vaccines don't cause autism. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has rejected claims in three test cases that tried to show that vaccines preserved with thimerosal contributed to...
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By Nadja Popovich One in six Americans has genital herpes. And among African-Americans and women, the odds are even higher, according to results from a national survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. Still, the...
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by Patrick Jarenwattananon No fail whale here. (TwitJazz.net) From the jazz blogosphere to the jazz micro-blogosphere -- or perhaps the other way around. Enter Twitter Jazz Network, a group blog run by folks who are frequently talking about jazz on Twitter....
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Natalie Randolph, a 29-year-old biology and environmental sciences teacher, was introduced Friday as the coach of Washington, D.C.'s Coolidge Colts. She's believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high school varsity football team.
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By Frank James A special federal court rejected an Oregon family's claim for compensation based on an alleged link between mercury-containing vaccines and their child's regressive form of autism. The ruling against George and Victoria Mead and their...
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House Democrats say they're closing in on a final vote on a health overhaul. But a few big issues remain to be ironed out before they can muster the votes needed to get the bill over the finish line. The biggest fight of all remains abortion.
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By Frank James Rep. Bart Stupak doesn't sound like he's close to throwing in the towel even if some of his fellow anti-abortion Democrats appear to be buckling under tremendous pressure from fellow partisans who want Stupak to stop standing in the way...
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Landra Reid suffered a broken back and neck after the van she was riding in with her daughter was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck Thursday. The couple's daughter, Lana Barringer, was treated and released from the hospital Thursday night.
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Chris Dodd will release his finance-reform bill on Monday.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) var so = new SWFObject("/player/media1/mediaplayer.swf", "mediaplayer1", "400", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain"); so.addParam("allowfullscreen",...
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Back in 2007, Hollywood was suffering from serious battle fatigue. But a new surge of war movies has come out — Green Zone takes on the search for WMDs; The Hurt Locker follows a bomb squad; and The Pacific is a 10-hour HBO World War II epic. These...
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By Frank James Sen. Harry Reid's wife Landra has had surgery following the highway accident in which a semi-tractor trailer truck on Thursday rear-ended the vehicle she occupied. Landra Reid, 69, suffered a broken neck and back as well as a fractured...
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By Scott Hensley The Food and Drug Administration slapped its strongest warning on Plavix, a popular pill to prevent blood clots in people with heart disease. Plavix is most likely to be ineffective in Asians. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (Mark Lennihan/AP)...
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A new report says Lehman Bros. used accounting tricks to cover up the fact it had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008. Lynn Turner, former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, discusses the...
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District Attorney Tony Rackauckas accused the automaker of knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles that had defects. The suit seeks civil penalties of $2,500 per violation under the Unfair Business Practices Act, along with the recovery of...
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By Frank James The Iditarod, the great Alaskan dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, is well underway, with the leaders a little more than halfway through the 1,112 mile course that takes the mushers over some of the most rugged and beautiful landscape...
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The rebuilding at Ground Zero is proceeding slowly more than eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker and author of Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, discusses...
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One of the buzz movies at this year's South By Southwest Film Festival depicts the denizens of the Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, Va., whose attendants are a surprisingly lively bunch of poets, philosophers, musicians and anthropologists. Sandy...
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High school seniors are hoping to impress colleges by sending videos of themselves at work and at play. The mini-movies range from slick creative productions to amateur-hour card tricks. Although many say there's no stopping the YouTube generation from...
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The White House announced Friday that President Obama and his family travel won't travel to Guam, Indonesia and Australia as planned next week. Instead, the president will travel alone, beginning Sunday on an abbreviated trip. The reason: health care....
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