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Islamic State Video Appears To Show Beheading Of A New U.S. Journalist
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: More disturbing news today from the extremist group that calls the Islamic State. They claim to have beheaded...
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Shark Encounter Wasn't 'Jaws,' Exactly — But It Was Still Jarring
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View ArticleWho's Using The Data Mined From Students?
Information tracked by educational software can be of great help to teachers. But as Politico's Stephanie Simon explains, private companies can also monetize the data by selling it to marketers.
View ArticleWhat We Know About The Man Behind The Isla Vista Killings
Scott Gold, senior writer for The Los Angeles Times discusses Elliot Rodger, the man who police say went on a stabbing and shooting rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., last week before killing himself.
View ArticleOn Memorial Day, Revisiting Stories Of The Fallen In Afghanistan
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: At Arlington National Cemetery on this memorial day President Obama paid tribute to the country's war dead. The President had just returned from a weekend visit to...
View ArticleWhat We Know About The Man Behind The Isla Vista Killings
Scott Gold, senior writer for The Los Angeles Times discusses Elliot Rodger, the man who police say went on a stabbing and shooting rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., last week before killing himself.
View ArticleOn Memorial Day, Revisiting Stories Of The Fallen In Afghanistan
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: At Arlington National Cemetery on this memorial day President Obama paid tribute to the country's war dead. The President had just returned from a weekend visit to...
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Nebraska Landowners Sit At The Heart Of Keystone Controversy
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Keystone XL - for years now, the pipeline has been tied up in polarizing argument about energy, jobs and the...
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Drive down gravel Road 22 in Nebraska's York County, past weathered farmhouses and corn cut to stubble in rich, black loam soil, and you'll find a small barn by the side of the road.Built of native...
View ArticleGambler-Turned-Conservationist Devotes Fortune To Florida Nature Preserve
You might think you know what frogs sound like — until, that is, you hear the symphony of amphibians that fills the muggy night air at Nokuse Plantation, a nature preserve in the Florida...
View ArticleRebuilding A Life Shattered By An Earthquake In China
Editor's Note: NPR's Melissa Block was on a reporting trip to southwest China in May 2008 when a massive earthquake hit, leaving some 90,000 dead or missing. Now, as she wraps up her time hosting All...
View Article重塑因地震而破碎的生活
Editor's note: NPR's Melissa Block was on a reporting trip to southwest China in May 2008 when a massive earthquake hit, leaving some 90,000 dead or missing. Now, as she wraps up her time hosting All...
View ArticleMelissa Block Looks Back On More Than 12 Years Hosting 'All Things Considered'
You don't host All Things Considered without having a list of memorable interview moments with musicians, actors and authors.On her last day as host, NPR's Melissa Block takes a look at some of the...
View ArticleFirst U.S. Factory OK'd For Cuba Aims To Plow A Path Into 21st Century
When President Obama travels to Cuba next month— the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in nearly 90 years — it will mark a historic step on the path to normalizing relations with the island...
View ArticleA Small Town Wonders What To Do When Heroin Is 'Everywhere'
The epidemic of opioid abuse that's swept the U.S. has left virtually no community unscathed, from big cities to tiny towns.In fact, drug overdose is now the leading cause of injury death in this...
View ArticleAstronaut's Photos From Space Change How We See Earth
Yesterday, NASA announced that astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from the space agency as of April 1st. Kelly holds the U.S. record for the most time spent in space.For nearly a full year, he zoomed...
View ArticleA Family Engulfed By Heroin Fights To Keep A Son Alive
Here's how I knew I liked Patti Trabosh.It goes back to the very first time I called her out of the blue to ask whether I might profile her family for a story on opioid addiction. The very first words...
View ArticleThink Twice Before Telling A Woman To Smile
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.Tuesday night — when Hillary Clinton was delivering her victory speech, after she won the primaries in Florida, North Carolina and Ohio — MSNBC host Joe...
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Protesters Disrupt Planned Brussels Vigil
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View ArticleIn Divided Belgium, Some Find That Trauma Unites Them
Turn on the radio in Belgium and you get news of the terrorist attacks in French and in Dutch. Belgium is divided into Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. There's a German-speaking...
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