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Virginia Governor's Bill To Ban Assault Weapons Fails, With Help From His Own...
Four state Senate Democrats broke ranks in tabling a bill that would have banned the sale or transfer of certain assault-style weapons. It also would have banned magazines with more than 12 rounds....
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'Stable Genius' Authors Describe Trump Presidency As A 'Den Of Destruction'
Wash. Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, authors of A Very Stable Genius, discuss troubling tendencies of the Trump presidency. Originally broadcast Jan. 22, 2020; updated Feb. 12, 2020.
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Refugee Docents Help Bring A Museum's Global Collection To Life
Attendance at Philadelphia's Penn Museum has shot up since the Global Guides first tours in 2018. The refugee and immigrant docents receive training in archaeology, ancient history and story-telling....
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Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion To Fight Climate Change, Planet's 'Biggest...
Amazon, the company Bezos founded and heads, has come under increasing scrutiny for its own carbon footprint. (Image credit: Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Boy Scouts Of America Files For Bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America has $1.4 billion in assets. The national organization may hope that its bankruptcy filing will shield the even larger assets of its local councils. (Image credit: Tony...
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BLM Acting Director Defends Agency's Controversial Move To Colorado
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's acting chief says the decision to relocate the agency's headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Grand Junction, Colo., means "locals can come and see us." (Image...
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Coronavirus Update: 346 Americans Emerge From Quarantine At California...
"It is important to know that these people being released from quarantine pose no health risk to the surrounding community," a CDC press officer said in a statement to NPR. (Image credit: Philip and...
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'Dark Towers' Chases Scandal-Ridden Deutsche Bank's Mysterious Ties To Donald...
President Trump's relationship with Deutsche Bank is still under investigation, so David Enrich's story is necessarily incomplete. But he shows the bank's tale is complex — more than one gone rogue....
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How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything
Winters are warming faster than summers in many places, and colder parts of the U.S. are warming faster than hotter ones. The warming winter climate has year-round consequences across the country....
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Many Tornado Alley Residents With Disabilities Lack Safe Options In A Storm
Oklahoma used to have more public shelters that could accommodate wheelchairs. But many have closed, and there's still no financial aid for renters with disabilities to build safe alternatives. (Image...
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Released Following Trump's Commutation
On Tuesday night, Blagojevich walked free from a federal prison four years before he was scheduled to be released. He is among 11 people who received clemency, the White House says. (Image credit:...
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Hundreds Of Homes Flooded In Mississippi As More Rain Is Expected
The Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet in Jackson, Miss. — lower than feared. Flooding also hit parts of Tennessee, where one official said, "It is a chess match we're playing with Mother Nature."...
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Banking Giant HSBC To Cut 35,000 Jobs Amid Restructuring
The bank says it will shed nearly 15% of its workforce and $100 billion in investments as it refocuses on growth markets in Asia and reduces operations in Europe and the U.S. (Image credit: Kin...
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Ontario's New License Plates Have A Problem: You Can't Read Them
Some people were already grumbling about the redesign, but drivers soon noticed a bigger problem: The new license plates can be hard to read at night. (Image credit: Andrew Collins)
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