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#Breaking #News #USA The Genetic Divide Between NYC's Uptown And Downtown Rats Fordham University graduate student Matthew Combs studies the DNA of New York City's rats. He found that rats living uptown are genetically distinct from rats living downtown. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Promise Of $1,200 Not Enough To Buy Wide Support For Republican Tax Plan Republican lawmakers say their plans will save the typical middle class family between $1,200 and $1,400. But polls show only 25 percent to 33 percent of Americans approve of the proposals. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA San Francisco Jury Finds Man Accused Of Killing Kate Steinle Not Guilty Of Murder A San Francisco jury has found an undocumented immigrant not guilty of murder or manslaughter in the shooting death of a young woman on the city's waterfront. The case triggered national headlines last year when Donald Trump used it during his presidential campaign to argue that the country needs tougher immigration laws. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Jury In San Francisco Finds Accused Killer Of Kate Steinle Not Guilty Of Murder The San Francisco killing in 2015 became a focus of opponents of sanctuary city policies. The defendant said he had found the gun and it fired accidentally. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Number Of American Children In Foster Care Increases For 4th Consecutive Year Parents' substance abuse is one of the items driving authorities to remove kids from homes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Senate GOP Tax Bill Hits Speed Bump Over Deficits A mechanism to trigger tax increases if proposed cuts do not generate promised economic growth is being thrown out, as GOP leaders look for new ways to address concerns from deficit hawks. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Tesla Going At 'Warp Speed,' But Lags In Race To Produce Mass Market Electric Cars The Model 3 is supposed to take Tesla mainstream and bring it to profitability. But Elon Musk's company has missed its production goals, and analysts wonder whether he's spreading himself too thin. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 2020 Census May Ask White People To Get Specific About Their Ethnicity White people in the U.S. may be asked to check off boxes about their ethnic background if the White House approves a proposal to change how the government collects race and ethnicity data. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Speaker Ryan On Sexual Harassment: 'We Are Having A Watershed Moment In This Country' "I think we're all realizing that sexual harassment in America is absolutely pervasive and it's got to go and we need to end it," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told NPR's Steve Inskeep. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Questions And Conflicted Emotions Trail A War Criminal's Courtroom Suicide The scene ended quickly: Slobodan Praljak declared innocence, drank what he called poison and died soon after. Dutch investigators' questions — and many Croats' ill feelings — will linger much longer. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: Trump's Pledge To Restore 'Merry Christmas' To The White House President Trump will take part in his first National Tree Lighting Ceremony Thursday. Trump has pledged to ditch political correctness and bring back Christmas, but did it ever leave the White House? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Rare And Mysterious Vomiting Illness Linked To Heavy Marijuana Use For a small percentage of people who smoke marijuana, long term use can make them sick with violent vomiting.California doctors worry they'll see more cases when pot is fully legalized in January. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Man Who Inspired ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Dies The viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge began in 2014 when a golfer in Sarasota, Fla., nominated his cousin in Pelham, N.Y. Her husband had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, His name was Anthony Senerchia Jr., and he lost his 14-year battle with the disease on Nov. 25. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Wet Wipes: To Flush Or Not To Flush? The wet wipes industry is blossoming. But with the growth comes a problem: clogged drains. Now the fight over "flushability" is heading to court. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Republican Sen. Charles Grassley On Why He Supports The Senate Tax Bill NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,. about the proposed Republican tax plans. Grassley is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and supports the Senate tax bill. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Look At What's Happening With The Senate Republicans' Tax Bill The Senate has begun debate on a GOP plan to overhaul the nation's tax code, with major economic and political consequences in the balance. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What The Republican Tax Bill Could Mean For Lower And Middle Income Families One of the sticking points among Republicans debating their tax bill is whether to make an expanded child tax credit refundable. The decision could greatly impact whether the change helps lower and middle income families. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump's Claim That GOP Tax Bill Would Hurt The Wealthy Continues To Be Challenged The tax changes proposed by Republican lawmakers would impact President Trump's personal finances. This week, he said: "This is going to cost me a fortune," but experts say that's far from the case. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'We Don't Feel Safe Here': Building A Post-Hurricane Life In Puerto Rico Hurricane season is ending but rebuilding in Puerto Rico is just starting and will take years. Residents of Cataño describe the impact Hurricane Maria had on their once peaceful and safe neighborhood. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Experts Say Facebook's Latest Attempt To Stop Fake News Isn't Foolproof Facebook says it has an edge in fighting back against influence campaigns like the one Russia waged against the U.S. in 2016. The company says it requires users' real names, but an NPR reporter tested it and signed up for an account under a fake name in about 1 minute. Experts say that feature is not a silver bullet. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Rep. John Conyers Facing More Pressure To Resign Amid Harassment Allegations Pressure is mounting on Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to resign following sexual harassment allegations. On Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Conyers should step aside. The 88-year-old congressman who has been in his home district for most of the week has been hospitalized due to stress. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Former Secretary Of Defense Ash Carter On North Korea's Latest Missile Launch NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Ash Carter, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, former Secretary of Defense, and expert on missile defense, about North Korea's latest missile launch. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Administration Sending Mixed Messages About Secretary Of State Tillerson Rumors are continuing to circle that President Trump may oust his Secretary of State in the coming weeks. This at a time when his administration is sending mixed messages on North Korea and other big challenges. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Afghan Girls Robotics Team Takes Home A Top Honor In European Contest The team previously made headlines when their U.S. visa was temporarily denied. Now they've won first place in the "Entrepreneurial Challenge" in Estonia, at Europe's largest robotics festival. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump's Retweets Of Extremist Group Cause Firestorm In U.K. "President Trump has used Twitter to promote a vile, extremist group that exists solely to sow division and hatred in our country," London's mayor tweeted Thursday. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Hundreds Of Eggs From Ancient Flying Reptile Are Found In China The fossilized pterosaur eggs and embryos shed light on the Lower Cretaceous creature's development and nesting habits. The cache was found where the reptile was once abundant, dubbed Pterosaur Eden. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA States Sound Warning That Kids' Health Insurance Is At Risk Funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program expired in September. Millions of children could lose coverage, unless Congress acts soon to restore the money to keep the program running. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA For Years, Anita Hill Was A 'Canary In The Coal Mine' For Women Speaking Out Journalists Jane Mayer and Rebecca Traister say Hill's harsh treatment during Clarence Thomas' 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings served as a warning to other women. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Jim Nabors, Who Played Affable Klutz Gomer Pyle, Dies At 87 The actor and singer starred as Pyle for years — first in The Andy Griffith Show, then in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Nabors parlayed the stardom of the beloved goof into a long career on stage, TV and film. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Walmart Pulls T-Shirts That Hint At Lynching Journalists The T-shirt's message said, "Rope. Tree. Journalist." The third-party seller who was offering it through Walmart had promised that it would arrive by Christmas Eve. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Report: 27 Things The Feds Could Do To Cut Drug Prices The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine get very specific in their recommendations of actions they think the federal government should take to lower prescription drug costs. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New North Korean Missile Is A 'Monster' Analysts say the North's latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-15, is larger and more powerful than anything it has built before. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Automation Could Displace 800 Million Workers Worldwide By 2030, Study Says But in the long term, new technology could create more jobs than it eliminates, a new report says. It says governments and businesses have to prioritize retraining workers for the new economy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'The Hardest Bakery Possible': Reinventing The Meaning Of 'Whole Grain' A handful of bakeries are pushing the envelope of what's possible — and palatable — by leaving the bran and germ in freshly milled grains from local farmers, who also help drive the menu. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Reportedly Considers Replacing Secretary Of State Tillerson The move could come within weeks, according to multiple media outlets. President Trump brushed off questions on the topic during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday, saying only, "Rex is here." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA This Nun Has Been Fighting For Migrant Kids For 45 Years Sister Ann Kendrick has dedicated most of her life to serving immigrant families. The community center she helped found in Florida functions both as a school and a sanctuary. Here's her story. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA U.S. Says Coalition Strikes Killed More Than 800 Civilians In Fight Against ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve forces have carried out more than 28,000 air and artillery strikes between August of 2014 and October, backing fighters in Iraq and Syria. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Angel Of Death' Among 29 Given Life Sentences Over Argentina's 'Dirty War' Former naval officer Alfredo Astiz was convicted of kidnapping, torture and murder in a mass trial of defendants linked to a secret torture center during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA First-Ever Aspen Words Literary Prize Unveils Its List Of Nominees The annual prize, in its inaugural year, will be awarded to one work of fiction. For the next few months, 20 books remain in contention — including works by Jesmyn Ward, Roxane Gay and Lisa Ko. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage Behavioral care is four times more likely to be out-of-network than medical or surgical care, a nationwide study shows. That can make treatment unaffordable even for people who have health insurance. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Conyers Hospitalized For Stress, As 5th Franken Accuser Comes Forward Rep. John Conyers, the 88-year-old Michigan Democrat facing multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, was hospitalized on Thursday according to his office. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Working Moms Have Been A 'Thing' Since Ancient History Who ruled early farming? Women! Studies of ancient bones show that women's physical labor was crucial to driving the agricultural revolution in Europe. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Fired 'Today' Host Matt Lauer Responds, Promises 'Soul-Searching' NBC fired Lauer as Variety was preparing a story in which several women detailed their allegations against the powerful TV host. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Despite Scrutiny, Rikers Island's 'Culture Of Violence' Persists, Report Says This latest report has fueled the debate on closing the jail facilities on the island. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'I Was Poisoned': Can Crowdsourcing Food Illnesses Help Stop Outbreaks? People can use the website to report restaurants, symptoms and whether they notified health department officials. But there are potential downsides — like mistaken culprits and malicious accusations. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Stories: Prosecutors Question Kushner; Honduras Presidential Vote Count Also: Remembering the deadly Galveston hurricane; Congress approves mandatory sexual harassment training; and there won't be "The Eddie" prestigious world surfing competition in Hawaii this year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Man Who Deactivated Trump's Twitter Account: 'I Didn't Break Any Rules' TechCrunch has tracked down the former Twitter employee who claims to be responsible for the famous 11-minute outage. He's a twenty-something from Germany who says it was all just a mistake. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Tempest At Galveston: 'We Knew There Was A Storm Coming, But We Had No Idea' The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 destroyed two-thirds of the Texas city and heavily damaged surviving structures. It remains the most deadly natural disaster and worst hurricane in U.S. history. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Tree That Rocked The Music Industry This year, new international regulations on rosewood have reverberated through the music industry, costing tens of millions in lost sales and extra administrative costs. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Chaos' Is At The Heart Of The Trump Camp's Defense. But It Can Cut Both Ways Campaign aides and administration officials have said the 2016 campaign was so frantic things happened almost too fast to consider. Does that strengthen their case in the Russia investigations? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Rising Tension In Honduras As Presidential Vote Count Drags On After four days of counting ballots, an initial lead for challenger Salvador Nasralla has evaporated and he now leads incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez by one-tenth of one percent. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Kushner Questioned By Special Counsel Investigators President Trump's son-in-law was reportedly questioned on a 2016 meeting with Russians offering "dirt" on Hillary Clinton and about former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: President Trump's Tax Speech In Missouri President Trump traveled to Missouri Wednesday to promote the GOP tax plan. Here's a closer look at some of the claims he made. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Justices May Impose New Limits On Government Access To Cellphone Data In arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a majority of justices raised concerns about privacy in the modern digital age. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Keystone Spill Likely Caused By Construction Damage, Investigators Say The leak was initially estimated to have released some 210,000 gallons of crude. Federal investigators say that they now have an "unconfirmed lower spill estimate," without specifying how much. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Revenue 'Trigger' Would Shoot Down Tax Cuts If Economy Doesn't Grow As Expected Some senators want the tax overhaul to come with a built-in trigger: If budget deficits grow, tax cuts will be reversed. But several key senators strongly oppose the idea. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Arkansas Prosecutors Drop Murder Case That Hinged On Evidence From Amazon Echo The government had charged James Bates with murder and sought recordings made by his personal-assistant device. But the evidence ultimately was deemed to support more than one reasonable explanation. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Painting Stolen By The Nazis Is Returned To Poland The FBI reportedly got a tip from the Polish government and recovered the painting in a town near Philadelphia. Representatives from the U.S. and Polish governments unveiled it in Warsaw. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Bad Drugs Are A Major Global Problem, WHO Reports Fake, substandard and expired medications are sold everywhere, from Canadian websites to pharmacies in Niger. Controlling them, says the World Health Organization, will be no small feat. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sen. Jeff Flake Plans Series Of Speeches Targeting Trump On Facts And Truth "These speeches aren't necessarily just on the president, but on certain issues," the Republican told Morning Edition. "The first one will be on the need to have shared facts that we all agree on." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA University Graduate Students Walk Out To Protest Tax Plan That Hurts Them Grad students around the country walked out of classes, office hours, and research labs to protest the House tax plan. Many who are already struggling financially said the bill would hit them hard. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Puerto Rico's Hurricane Recovery Hinders Farm Businesses' Seed Research Many agriculture companies rely on the island's climate for the research and development of commercial corn, soybean and other seeds grown in the U.S. But the storm wiped out needed infrastructure. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Gold Trader Reza Zarrab Agrees To Cooperate With U.S. In Sanctions Evasion Case A sanctions-evasion trial in New York that has proven a major irritant in U.S.-Turkish relations just got more interesting. One of the accused Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader, has agreed to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors, raising the possibility that he might reveal connections in the scheme that could extend to the highest reaches of the Turkish government. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Visits Missouri To Tout GOP Tax Overhaul Bill President Trump traveled to Missouri to tout the GOP tax overhaul bill as a boon for the middle class. But analysts say the bill mostly benefits the wealthy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Minnesota Public Radio Cuts Ties With Garrison Keillor After Alleged Inappropriate Behavior Minnesota Public Radio has ended its business relationships with host Garrison Keillor following alleged inappropriate behavior. A well-known voice in public media, Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" and "The Best of A Prairie Home Companion" will no longer be broadcast. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Hears Case On Cell Phone Location Information In politics it's usually conservatives who attack liberals for being soft on crime. Those roles seemed at least partially reversed today at the Supreme Court, where justices heard an important case examining whether police need a search warrant to get cell phone site location information from wireless carriers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What The Law Of War Says About Nuclear Strikes Two Air Force generals — one the current U.S. Strategic Forces commander, the other his predecessor — declared publicly this month that they would defy a presidential nuclear launch order if they found it violated the Law of War. So what are the Law of War's constraints are on a nuclear strike and could it be a plausible check on President Trump's unilateral power to launch a nuclear strike? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How Diplomatic Engagement With North Korea Could Proceed On Tuesday, North Korea launched what the Pentagon says is the country's third ICBM test of the year. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Suzanne DiMaggio of New America and Joel S. Wit from the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University about diplomatic engagement with North Korea. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA War Criminal Dies After Drinking 'Poison' In Court A man convicted of war crimes in the Balkans has committed suicide in the courtroom. Upon hearing that his conviction was upheld at the Hague, Slobodan Praljak said that he rejected the verdict, then drank a small container of what he said was poison. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supporters Of Michigan Rep. Conyers Challenged With More Harassment Allegations Representative John Conyers, D-Mich., has represented the people of his Detroit district for more than five decades. Now, allegations of sexual harassment against the venerable lawmaker are challenging even his most ardent supporters. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Congress Struggling To Create Zero Tolerance Sexual Harassment Policy Congressional leaders say they want zero tolerance for sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, but they're struggling with the best way to respond to allegations against lawmakers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sen. Claire McCaskill Says She Would Like To Have A Bipartisan Tax Bill President Trump, who visited Missouri on Wednesday, has said if the state's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill doesn't support his tax plan, she should be voted out of office. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Sen. McCaskill about the proposed Republican tax plans and how she would like to work on a bipartisan bill. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA U.K. Political Leaders Outraged After Trump Retweets Anti-Muslim Videos Political leaders in the U.K. have expressed outrage at President Trump's retweets of inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos from a British far-right group. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Retweets Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos From Far-Right Group In Britain President Trump retweeted inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos from a far-right party in Britain. The action prompted outrage and while Trump's Twitter feed often creates controversy, it doesn't always result in consequential actions. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NBC Fires 'Today' Host Matt Lauer Following Complaint Of 'Inappropriate Sexual Behavior' NBC News has fired its biggest star today over an allegation of sexual harassment in the workplace. Matt Lauer had been with the "Today" show for more than 20 years. In a statement, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack said that while there was only one complaint, the network had reason to believe the behavior was not an isolated incident. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Advocates For Patients With Rare Diseases Defend Tax Credits For Orphan Drugs The Republican tax plan could reduce or eliminate federal tax credits that reward companies for developing drugs to treat rare diseases. People who benefit from the medicines have objected. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Oops: American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays The pilots' union says 15,000 flights at the end of the year don't have anyone to fly them, due to a glitch in the system pilots use to bid for time off. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 7 Ways You Can Protect Yourself From Outrageous Medical Bills Prepare to joust over bills with hospitals, medical providers and insurers. You can win by being smart, assertive and acting before a test or treatment is administered. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A German City, Citing Pressure On Services, Gets Green Light To Ban New Refugees Salzgitter is the first German city to ban more refugees from moving in. Two others have followed. The U.N. refugee agency has criticized the ban, but it is expected to be repeated elsewhere. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Scientists Move A Step Closer To Making Synthetic Life Bacteria engineered with an expanded genetic alphabet can produce novel proteins, which could lead to the development of new drugs. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Garrison Keillor Accused Of 'Inappropriate Behavior,' Minnesota Public Radio Says The creator and former host of A Prairie Home Companion has continued to produce Writer's Almanac. MPR says it is cutting ties with Keillor completely. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA His Sentence Upheld, War Criminal Drinks 'Poison' In Court — And Dies Hours Later Moments after judges confirmed Slobodan Praljaka's 20-year prison sentence for war crimes, he declared his innocence — then tilted back his head and consumed what he said was poison. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA North Korea Claims New Missile Makes It A Nuclear Power Independent analysts agree that the North's latest ICBM could reach as far as the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, though some questions remain. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How Dogs Are Lending A Paw To Uganda's Traumatized War Veterans In Uganda, dogs are not typically pets and are often feared. But one young man decided to see if therapy dogs might be helpful for traumatized veterans of the civil war. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Retweets Incendiary Anti-Muslim Videos From Controversial Group The president's latest tweet-storm also singled out NBC, over the firing of Today host Matt Lauer — with Trump naming and threatening to out executives at the broadcast network. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA War Criminal Drinks 'Poison' In Court And Dies Just Hours Later, Croatian TV Says Moments after judges upheld Slobodan Praljaka's 20-year prison sentence for war crimes, he tilted back his head and consumed what he claimed was poison. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Meaning Of Meghan: 'Black' And 'Royal' No Longer An Oxymoron "Why do I have to choose? For people who are mixed-race, I think that this is really a big step forward. I'm so exited. I'm over the moon." Amal Fashanau, BBC reporter Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'I Just Drank Poison,' Bosnian War Criminal Announces To Court Moments after a 20-year sentence for war crimes was reconfirmed for former Bosnian Serb commander Slobodan Praljak, he tilted back his head and consumed what he claimed was poison. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Gene Therapy Shows Promise For A Growing List Of Diseases After decades of hope and disappointment, doctors have now been able to treat several different types of genetic conditions by giving each patient a healthy version of their defective gene. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'I Just Drank Poison,' Bosnian War Crimes Suspect Announces To Court Moments after a 20-year sentence for war crimes was reconfirmed for former Bosnian Serb commander Slobodan Praljak, he tilted back his head and consumed what he claimed was poison. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NBC News Fires Matt Lauer Over 'Inappropriate Sexual Behavior' "On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer," the Today show wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Stories: NYC Truck Attack Suspect Pleads Not Guilty; Bali Airport Reopens Also: A suspect in a string of Tampa murders is arrested; President Trump will highlight tax proposals in a visit to Missouri, and an Iranian wrestler throws a match to avoid an Israeli opponent. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'It Takes Our Purpose': With No Salmon, Yurok Tribe Struggles With Identity The tribe has fished in the Pacific Northwest's Klamath River for centuries, but the Chinook have been devastated by drought, disease, dams, and a long history of habitat destruction. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Tampa Police Make Arrest In String Of Murders A 24-year-old man was taken into custody Tuesday in connection with four fatal shootings that gripped the community for weeks. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Administration Aims To Loosen Obama-Era Truck Safety Rules Truckers complain they work in one of the nation's most over-regulated industries. Advocates worry rolling back safety regulations will make highways more dangerous. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Iranian Wrestler Throws Match To Avoid Facing Israeli In Next Round At championships in Poland, Ali Reza Karimi all but won his match against Russian opponent until his coach commanded him from the sidelines to lose. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Iranian Wrestler Throws Match To Avoid Facing Israeli In Next Round At championships in Poland, Ali Reza Karimi all but won his match against Russian opponent until his coach commanded him from the sidelines to lose. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Climate Scientists Watch Their Words, Hoping To Stave Off Funding Cuts After years of budget and political pressure, some climate scientists are changing the way they describe their research, and avoiding the term "climate change." Read more on NPR

#Breaking The NHL And CTE The NFL has been more active than the NHL in addressing concerns about concussions and CTE. David Greene talks with neuroscientist Charles Tator talks about hockey's tepid response. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 6 Months In, No End In Sight: Who's Who In The Vast Russia Imbroglio White House says it expects the investigation to conclude in the early part of 2018. Outside legal experts say it will run on for much longer. Here is an update about some of the key players. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Bali's Airport To Reopen As Volcano Continues To Belch And Rumble As Mount Agung continues to erupt, the main airport at Denpasar announced reversed course and reopened after a three-day closure. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Hospital Improperly Billed Patients For Rape Exams, Says New York Attorney General Rape exams are supposed to be paid for by the state. But one woman was billed seven times for her exam. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Robot Muscles Inspired By Origami Lift 1000 Times Their Weight The delicate art of paper folding is playing a crucial role in designing robotic artificial muscles that are startlingly strong. The design uses a soft material and could be safer around humans. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Wins Opening Round In Legal Battle Over Consumer Watchdog Agency The White House is seeking to assert control over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created to help people in disputes with big financial firms. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Libyan Involved In Benghazi Attack Convicted Of Terrorism Charges, But Acquitted Of Murder The first man to face justice over the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi Libya was found guilty today by a federal jury in Washington, D.C. Ahmed Abu Khatallah was convicted on terrorism charges, but he was acquitted on the most serious charges he faced — murder. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sole Defendant In Benghazi Attacks Convicted Of Terrorism Charges — But Not Murder Ahmed Abu Khatallah was accused of orchestrating the siege on a U.S. diplomatic compound in the Libyan city. That attack, which left four Americans dead, has become a political flashpoint in the U.S. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Really Happened At The School Where 'Every Senior Got Into College' Last year, every graduating senior at Ballou High School got into college. A WAMU and NPR investigation shows that many of those students missed more than a month of school and struggled academically. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump's Pick For Fed Signals Interest Rate Hike Likely Next Month Jerome Powell's confirmation hearing went smoothly, putting him closer to being confirmed as the Federal Reserve's next chairman. He suggested he'll continue the policies pursued under Janet Yellen. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Washington Post' Exposure Of Sting Operation Shows Power Of Fact-Based Reporting According to The Washington Post, a woman approached the paper with a dramatic and fake story about U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore appears to be part of a sting operation. She was later seen entering the office of Project Veritas, an outfit that produces videos designed to discredit mainstream media outlets as well as left-leaning activist groups. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Gold Trader Reza Zarrab Agrees To Cooperate With U.S. In Sanctions Evasion Case A sanctions-evasion trial in New York that has proven a major irritant in U.S.-Turkish relations just got more interesting. One of the accused Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader, has agreed to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors, raising the possibility that he might reveal connections in the scheme that could extend to the highest reaches of the Turkish government. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Canada's Trudeau Formally Apologizes To LGBTQ Community For Decades Of Persecution For decades, Canadian law enforcement — including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — worked aggressively to purge members of the LGTBQ community from government positions and the military. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized for the policy that didn't end until the 1990s. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA North Korea Fires What Appears To Be Third ICBM Test Of 2017 North Korea fired what the Pentagon says was an intercontinental ballistic missile, the third this year. The missile flew about 1,000 km, passing over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and landing in the Pacific Ocean. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA In Myanmar, Pope Francis Didn't Mention The Rohingya Minority By Name Pope Francis is in Myanmar where he voiced support for ethnic minorities, but did not mention the persecuted Muslim Rohingya by name. This, in comments to leader Aung San Suu Kyi, disappointed rights activists seeking support for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA National Congress Of American Indians Reacts To Trump's 'Pocahontas' Comment At an event on Monday honoring Native American veterans, President Trump mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying "They call her Pocahontas." NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Jacqueline Pata of the National Congress of American Indians about the reaction in the room. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Are Pass-Through Businesses And How Could The GOP Tax Plans Affect Them? NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Joe Rosenberg, senior research associate at Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Institute, about pass-through businesses and how they might be affected by the tax plans presented by Senate and House Republicans. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Democratic Leaders Pull Out Of Government Funding Meeting After Trump Tweet President Trump was supposed to sit down with Republican and Democratic leaders to talk about government funding. But a political tit for tat has resulted in the Democrats pulling out of the meeting. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Ivanka Trump Speaks At Entrepreneurship Summit In India White House advisor Ivanka Trump spoke at an entrepreneurship summit in Hyderabad, India. She is co-hosting the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How The U.S. Has Been Working To Disrupt The Opium Trade In Afghanistan The United Nations says this year's opium crop in Afghanistan is on pace to be the highest on record. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Kevin Hartmann about the various U.S. initiatives in Afghanistan to disrupt the opium trade in past years. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA More U.S. Troops Will Accompany Afghan Forces To Fight Taliban Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, says more U.S. troops will be in harm's way by spring as they accompany Afghan troops into battle with Taliban forces. "We're going to win," the Nicholson says. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Came Into Creation Since its creating in 2010 following the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been both ambitious and divisive. Democrats and activists groups say it's a crucial fighter against the power of Wall Street. Republicans say the CFPB is unaccountable and even unconstitutional. This week's standoff over the bureau's interim directors is the most visible case of a battle that has been brewing for years. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Visits Capitol Hill As McConnell Lobbies For Tax Votes President Trump traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Republican senators as they work to advance their tax plan. They are hoping to hold a Senate vote by the end of the week. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why A Brazilian State Went From 0 Cases Of Dengue To 35,000 A Year Brazil has long faced outbreaks of dengue fever. But Acre State was immune — until very recently. Now researchers have come up with a possible explanation. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA EU Extends Use Of Controversial Weedkiller After German Minister Switches Vote Angela Merkel chided her agriculture minister for flipping his vote on use of the weedkiller glyphosate — a move that angered German allies and endangered Merkel's coalition-building efforts at home. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Testosterone May Help Protect Men From Asthma Women are more likely to have asthma than men. One possible reason? Testosterone could block a protein that helps spark an asthma attack, a study finds, while estrogen may not. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NPR Chief News Editor Departs In Wake Of Harassment Allegations "David Sweeney is no longer on staff," acting senior vice president of news Chris Turpin said in an email to staff. At least three female journalists have filed complaints against him. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Epidemic Of Health Care Waste: From $1,877 Ear Piercing To ICU Overuse Unnecessary or needlessly expensive care costs hundreds of billions dollars a year. Patients, employers and taxpayers are footing the bill. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA North Korea Apparently Fires Another Missile, After 2 1/2 Month Break Between Tests The projectile was reportedly fired during the middle of the night in North Korea. The Pentagon has confirmed a "probable" missile launch occurred — the first since a test in mid-September. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Arby's Is Buying Buffalo Wild Wings For More Than $2.4 Billion The private equity firm behind Arby's says it will take Buffalo Wild Wings private and continue to operate it as an independent brand. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Ancient Andean Tradition of Eating Clay May Have Helped To Protect Health Farmers in Peru's Andean highlands have been consuming clay for centuries. Scientists now think it may have allowed them to eat wild potatoes, which are rich in toxic chemicals. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Do Doctors Need To Use Computers? One Physician's Case Highlights The Quandary Now in her 80s, Anna Konopka has been practicing medicine for decades and has never used electronic records. After record-keeping complaints, she surrendered her license. The case wound up in court. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA For Anesthesiologist, Easing Pain And Erasing Memories Is All In A Day's Work Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo specializes in pediatric anesthesiology and treats about 1,000 children a year, including premature babies. His new memoir is called Counting Backwards. Read more on NPR