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Advocates Want Bush Abortion Policies Reversed

NPR Top Stories - December 11, 2009 - 12:25pm

Abortion-rights backers want quick action from the president-elect, although they may not press for sweeping changes. Obama has said he is looking to find common ground on reproductive health issues.

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Military Unaware Of Hasan E-Mails To Radical Cleric

NPR Top Stories - 4 hours 8 min ago

Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said there may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the alleged Fort Hood shooter before the deadly rampage.

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Feds To Drop Charges Against Blackwater Guard

NPR Top Stories - 6 hours 15 min ago

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

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Leader Of Sears Tower Plot Sentenced To 13 Years

NPR Top Stories - 6 hours 51 min ago

Narseal Batiste, who faced a maximum of 70 years in prison, was convicted in May of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida, plotting to blow up buildings and conspiracy to wage war against the U.S. Officials acknowledged the plot never got past the discussion stage and the group never acquired the means to carry it out.

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Museum: Galileo's Fingers, Tooth Found

NPR Top Stories - 7 hours 6 min ago

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.

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Marines Reflect On Duty, Death In Afghanistan

NPR Top Stories - 7 hours 56 min ago

When the Marines of "America's Battalion" first arrived in Afghanistan, they were eager to get into the fight against the Taliban. Now, as they wrap up their seven-month deployment — and after the loss of a dozen comrades — they see warfare in a different light.

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Evidence-Based Medicine: Hard For Some To Swallow

NPR Top Stories - 8 hours 5 min ago

Based on studies, two panels of medical experts this week recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer. But people don't always want to do what the data say to do.

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Obscured By War, Water Crisis Looms In Yemen

NPR Top Stories - 8 hours 16 min ago

News from Yemen has been dominated recently by an escalating rebellion along the border with Saudi Arabia. But the country has been making news for decades because of its severe overuse of a rapidly disappearing water supply, the result of natural and political causes.

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'Botax' In Senate Health Bill Upsets Plastic Surgeons

NPR Top Stories - 8 hours 34 min ago

Levies on liposuction, breast augmentation and other cosmetic procedures would generate billions of dollars to help cover the uninsured.

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Record Rainfall Wreaks Havoc In Britain, Ireland

NPR Top Stories - 8 hours 37 min ago

Raging floods engulfed northern England's Lake District on Friday, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes. In Ireland, more than 3 feet of water shut down the center of the country's second-largest city, Cork, and more than a dozen other towns and villages.

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Peruvian Police Say Gang Killed People For Their Fat

NPR Top Stories - 9 hours 4 min ago

Police arrested three members of a gang in the Peruvian jungle that allegedly has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications.

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In Massillon, High School Football Is 'Who We Are'

NPR Top Stories - 9 hours 56 min ago

The Ohio school has a 20,000-seat stadium, a $3 million indoor practice facility and a live tiger for a mascot. Massillon teams have won 22 state championships and they're in the running for another one. It's football "sunup to sundown," the head coach says.

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Senate Ethics Committee: No Punishment For Burris

NPR Top Stories - 11 hours 46 min ago

The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn't recommend any punishment.

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Senate Health Bill Faces Saturday Showdown

NPR Top Stories - 12 hours 30 min ago

Democrats will need to vote in lockstep to overcome GOP opposition in a key procedural vote to move the $848 billion measure to full debate. But it's not yet clear whether Majority Leader Harry Reid can round up enough support.

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Students Rail Against University Of California Fees

NPR Top Stories - 16 hours 25 min ago

UC regents, meeting at UCLA, approved fees that will bring the average annual cost to about $10,300 — a threefold increase in a decade. In protest, University of California Berkeley students barricaded themselves in part of a campus building on Friday.

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Hard Lessons From Two Mass Killings In Texas

NPR Top Stories - 21 hours 23 min ago

The Senate is conducting hearings into the recent shootings at Fort Hood — a tragedy that took place just miles from the site of a deadly 1991 attack. That episode, in which a gunman killed 23 people at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, reshaped how police, medical and psychological personnel respond to such tragedies.

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Flood Of Immigrants To Long Island Sparks Tension

NPR Top Stories - November 19, 2009 - 10:44am

People born and raised in Suffolk County, N.Y., complain about dozens of people living in single-family homes; immigrants complain that they are victimized by locals. An Ecuadorean day laborer was murdered last year, allegedly by teenagers who said they regularly looked for immigrants to bash.

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Recovery In Developed Economies Gathering Pace

NPR Top Stories - November 19, 2009 - 6:05am

Recovery will accelerate next year due to "substantial improvements" in financial markets and fast-growing Asian countries, but is likely to remain fragile, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said. The OECD more than doubled its estimate for 2010 growth in its 30 member countries to 1.9 percent, from the 0.7 percent forecast in June.

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New Weekly Jobless Claims Unchanged

NPR Top Stories - November 19, 2009 - 5:30am

New jobless claims were unchanged last week at 505,000, matching analysts' expectations, but the four-week moving average of claims dropped to its lowest in almost a year, the Labor Department said Thursday.

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New Karzai Term, But Same Old Problems

NPR Top Stories - November 19, 2009 - 4:03am

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated in Kabul on Thursday for a new term amid tight security and ceremonial flourishes. But his second term is already beset by severe doubts that he will be any more effective at tackling the country's rampant corruption.

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