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#Breaking #News #USA Kim Jong Un Wants The U.S. To Know That His Nuclear Arsenal Is Complete In his annual New Year's address, North Korea's leader said his country had completed its nuclear weapons and that the "entire area of the U.S. mainland is within our nuclear strike range." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Costa Rican Officials: 10 Americans, 2 Locals Killed In Plane Crash The plane came down in mountainous Punta Islita, a popular tourist destination about 140 miles west of the capital of San José, killing all 12 people on board. The cause of the crash is not yet known. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Germany Takes Steps To Guard Women Against Sexual Assault As They Ring In New Year In Berlin, authorities are taking extra security measures ahead of New Year's celebrations. "Safety zones" are being set up for female party-goers, but some people are critical of this move. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New Year's Celebrations Kick Off Across The Globe People in major cities around the world marked the end of 2017 with fireworks displays and other celebrations. Samoa, Christmas Island and New Zealand were among the first to celebrate 2018. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 1 Officer Dead, 4 Others Wounded In Shooting South Of Denver, Police Say The sheriff's office in a residential area south of Denver is reporting one officer was killed and four others were injured in a shooting. The suspect was also shot dead by police. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Tightest Security In Years At New Year's Celebrations In New York And Las Vegas Snipers. Specially trained dogs. Multiple layers of security screening. Detectives in hotels. After recent attacks, New York and Las Vegas are seeing beefed up security this year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Researchers Gather Health Data For 'All Of Us' Federal researchers are collecting blood samples from 1 million Americans as part of an effort called "precision medicine." But some critics worry that the path ahead is expensive and unclear. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Lawsuits Mount As Apple Manages Fallout From Revelation Of Slowed iPhones While Apple's apologies and response to its slowing down of older phones might help on the public relations front, the legal issues are another matter. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Twitter Wants To Help You Welcome 2018 With One Climactic Musical Moment A viral tweet from Phil Collins suggests people cue up his song "In the Air Tonight" so the iconic drum fill rings out at midnight. The Twitterverse offered up plenty of other musical suggestions. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 2 Protesters Killed As Anti-Government Protests Enter Fourth Day In Iran The demonstrations are the biggest since 2009. Protesters are calling for the end of clerical rule and the removal of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Under 'Kenyan Time,' You're Expected To Arrive ... Oh, Whenever A video rant about the perpetual lateness of Kenyans is prompting debate and self-reflection. As Kenya enters the global economy, can people keep disregarding the clock? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Friendship Bread Project: Can Baking Promote Unity In A Divided World? It's the chain letter of baking: a simple starter that you divvy up, keeping some for yourself and sharing the rest with others. It's an old tradition we'd like to see you revive in your community. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How To Work With Your Doctor On Healthier Goals For The New Year What health goals will you reach for in 2018? And which, if any, will you discuss with your doctor? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How Crime Rates In New York City Reached Record Lows Crime in New York City is at its lowest levels since the 1950s. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says a renewed focus on disorder, as well as serious crime, led to the decline. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Police Arrest Suspect In Fatal 'Swatting' Prank Wichita police fatally shot a reportedly unarmed man Thursday after a false report indicating he was holding his family hostage with a handgun. On Friday police arrested a suspect in Los Angeles. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Soldier Among Those Killed In Bronx Fire After Rescuing Others From Blaze Emmanual Mensah, 28, had just completed basic training and was visiting for the holidays. When the fire engulfed his apartment building Thursday he saved several people, but died trying to save more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Erica Garner, Who Became An Activist After Her Father's Death, Dies She became a prominent figure calling for an end to police brutality after New York City officers put her father in a fatal chokehold. She suffered brain damage following a heart attack. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Photos That Tell Some Of 2017's Biggest International Stories As 2017 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of the year's most important stories, as told through powerful images from around the world. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Expect More Politics In The New Year Politics is expected to dominate sports in the new year much as it did in 2017, from the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl to the Olympics and World Cup. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA PHOTOS: Malick Sidibe Shows Mali's Youth With A Groovy 'Twist' A Paris museum is showing the first major posthumous exhibit of work by the great photographer. As Sidibe himself once said, "I think photos are the best way of living a long time after you die." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A 1960s 'Hippie Clinic' In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the same: "Health care is a right, not a privilege." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Transgender Rights Lead NPR's Top LGBTQ Stories of 2017 From so-called "bathroom bills" to a teen wrestling champion, 2017 saw transgender rights surge to the forefront of public consciousness. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NPR Readers Select Mueller Probe As Top Political Story Of The Year The investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to the Trump campaign was chosen as the top political story of 2017, narrowly beating out the fallout from sexual harassment. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: Trump's 'New York Times' Interview On Russia, Taxes, Health Care And More President Trump sat down with the Times for a wide-ranging impromptu interview. NPR's editors and reporters have annotated Trump's claims. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 2017 Has Been A Rough Year For Evangelicals Self-described "evangelical" Christians helped elect President Trump in 2016. But this year, the label lost coherence. Some evangelicals reconsidered what it stood for, while others disowned the term. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA British Monarch Recognizes Citizens' 2017 Contributions To Public Life Every new year the British monarch recognizes people who have made a contribution to public life in the U.K. While the "New Year's Honors List" usually includes members of the political, social and economic elite, the majority of those honored are ordinary people who have helped others in their daily lives. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Apple Issues Apology After Admitting To Slowing Down Older iPhones Apple is doing damage control after iPhone owners expressed outrage when the company admitted to intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve battery life. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Will Oremus, who is covering the story for Slate, now that Apple has put out an unsigned apology. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Voter Reflects On First Year Of Presidency Last January, NPR's Ari Shapiro went on a road trip to talk with voters in the days leading up to the inauguration of President Trump. We check back in with one of the people we met — strawberry farmer Chuck Wooten, who voted for President Trump. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Syria Says U.S. Forces Should Leave As Contractors, Diplomats Prepare To Arrive Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says contractors and diplomats will be sent to Eastern Syria to help stabilize the country. They will be protected by American troops already there. Mattis says that besides rebuilding, the increased American presence will make sure diplomatic efforts continue for the future of Syria. Both Russia and Syria have said U.S. forces should leave. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA President Trump Criticizes USPS-Amazon Relationship On Twitter NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Devin Leonard about President Trump's tweet saying the U.S. Postal Service should charge more to deliver Amazon packages. Leonard wrote a book about the U.S. Post Office called Neither Snow nor Rain. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Congress Accomplished And Didn't Accomplish In 2017 It was a messy year in Congress. Despite control of the House and Senate — and a president willing to sign legislation — Congressional Republicans spent much of the year fighting amongst themselves. But at both the start and the finish of the year, they scored some important wins. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Deadline Approaches For $10 Million Reward On Leads To Gardner Museum Paintings NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Stephen Kurkjian, former investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, and author of the book Master Thieves, about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990. The museum still hopes to get the artwork back and set a deadline on New Year's Eve for a $10 million reward on leads for the 13 missing paintings, that include works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Degas. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA With $100 Million Grant, Sesame Workshop Reaches Out To Refugee Kids In January, Sesame Workshop will start creating programs for Syrian kids who've had to flee their homeland. The goal is to help them deal with the "toxic stress" of refugee life. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Potential Impact Of Increasing The Minimum Wage People who work for the minimum wage in 18 states are getting a raise on Jan. 1. From Alaska to Maine, increases range from 4 cents to a dollar. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Look At The First Year Of Trump's Presidency NPR's Ari Shapiro takes a look back at the political news of 2017, and the first year of Trump's presidency, with Matt Yglesias, columnist, editor and co-founder of Vox, and Rachael Larimore, online managing editor of The Weekly Standard. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 30 Must-Read (Or Must-Revisit) NPR Music Articles From 2017 The mystery of a "missing" classic rocker, a record collector who desires just one album, Austrians who bungled their way to celebrity, a fake genre we invented ... the gang's all here. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sue Grafton, Bestselling Author Of Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, Dies At 77 Grafton wrote 25 page-turners following the spunky female detective. "The alphabet now ends at Y," her daughter wrote on Facebook. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA No 'Easy Answer' To Growing Number Of Stray Dogs In The U.S., Advocate Says Author Peter Zheutlin says the number of stray dogs in the U.S. has "cascaded out of control." He makes the case for why people should adopt abandoned dogs. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Move Over, 'Despacito.' These Videos Also Ruled YouTube In 2017 YouTube's top videos of 2017 include a singing oyster from Thailand, an attack on rainbow foam "squishies" from Indonesia and a dancing Kenyan president. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 9 Global Stories You May Have Missed In 2017 Now's your chance to learn about an all-female orchestra from Afghanistan, the boy who escaped from Boko Haram, a board game that's all about running away from the matchmaker — and more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Apple Apologizes For Slowdowns, Lops $50 Off Battery Replacement Cost "We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize," the company said in announcing a plan to help customers speed up their older iPhones. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The 10 Most Popular 'Fresh Air' Interviews Of 2017 In 2017, Fresh Air marked 30 years as a nationally syndicated, daily radio program by doing what we do best: more in-depth interviews. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Precision Medical Treatments Have A Quality Control Problem The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA South Korea Seizes Ship Suspected Of At-Sea Oil Transfer To Benefit North Korea One suspected transfer was seen in U.S. reconnaissance photos; South Korean media say ships have sold oil to North Korean vessels around 30 times since October. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA President Trump's Biggest Foreign Policy Headache For 2018 After trading bellicose barbs with North Korea throughout 2017, the U.S. heads into 2018 with an increasingly capable foe and no clear diplomatic exit ramps to temper the tensions. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Gunmen Attack Coptic Church In Egypt, Killing At Least 9 Despite the death toll, the state news agency is calling the attack a foiled attempt; along with guns, the assailants were also carrying explosives. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA On New Year's Day, Many Low-Wage Workers Will Celebrate With A Raise The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 per hour. But many states have pushed wage floors higher over the years. Now, 18 states and 20 localities will raise their minimum wage on Jan. 1. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Go Jump In A Lake Last season, the Cleveland Browns were 1-15. Coach Hue Jackson vowed they'd be better this year or he'd swim in Lake Erie. Now that the Browns have lost 15 games already he said he's "got to" jump in. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Show Business Icon Rose Marie Dies At 94 Rose Marie may be best remembered for playing writer Sally Rogers on the 1960's sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show. A documentary about her life, Wait For Your Laugh, was released last month. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Scorns Mainstream News, But Not The Christian Broadcasting Network President Trump has given relatively few interviews to networks other than Fox News since taking office. But CBN, founded by the controversial televangelist Pat Robertson, is an exception. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA In Memoriam 2017: The Musicians We Lost From virtuoso players and visionary composers to charismatic bandleaders and golden-eared producers, explore the musical voices who left us this year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 5 Immigration Stories To Watch In 2018 Some of President Trump's most ambitious immigration policies have been blocked by the courts, or stymied by Congress. Here are five immigration stories to watch in 2018. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New Wave Of Electric 2-Wheelers Hits U.S. City Streets As battery technology improves and cities get denser, some West Coast companies are targeting millennial and Gen X consumers by producing cheaper and greener mopeds, scooters and e-bikes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Pain Management Clinic Offers An Alternative To Opioids Studies show some promising results for new approaches to opioid addiction, but some insurers won't pay for alternative treatments like classes on pain management. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Illinois To Ban 'Gay Panic Defense' In New Year LGBTQ activists say they hope lawmakers in other states will also ban the legal defense, which blames a victim's sexual orientation for an attacker's violent reaction. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Portions Of Ailing White House Magnolia Removed Out Of Safety Concerns The Jackson Magnolia, one of the oldest and storied trees on the White House lawn, just got a major trim. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Jonathan Pliska about the tree's significance. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Harvard Student Cracks Incan Code The Incas did not have a written language. Instead, they communicated using a system of knots in colored strings — called khipus. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Harvard student Manny Medrano about his groundbreaking work analyzing the code. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Tropicalia Music Still Speaks To Young Marginalized Urban Brazilians In Brazil, there's been a resurgence of Tropicalia — the anti-authoritarian, anarchic music that emerged under the military junta of the 1960s. It's back and fused with rap and lyrics fighting for Brazil's poor and marginalized. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump's Relationship With NATO, 1 Year Into His Presidency President Trump criticized NATO once again in his National Security Strategy speech, but NATO ambassadors say the U.S. continues to be very supportive where it counts: on the ground. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Thomas Fire Evacuees Return Home To Find What's Left The massive Thomas Fire in Southern California is now 89 percent contained and evacuees are starting to return home. The Upper Ojai Valley was especially hard-hit. About a quarter of the homes there were destroyed. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Federal Appeals Court Gives EPA 90 Days To Propose Long-Awaited Lead Standards A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to propose a new standard for lead inside homes within 90 days. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Eve Gartner, who litigated on behalf of groups suing the EPA to update the standards. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Violent Crackdowns In Venezuela Severely Impacted Maduro's Opposition NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Carlos, an actor and tour guide in Caracas, Venezuela. Carlos used to protest daily against President Nicholas Maduro's government. Now, those protests have dissipated, opposition leaders have been imprisoned, and Carlos, who earlier said that he did not want to leave Venezuela, is looking for a job abroad. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA France Ends State Of Emergency After Nearly 2 Years France has just lifted a nearly two year state of emergency that was put in place in Nov. 2015 and extended six times. To replace it, the government has passed an anti-terrorism law. But critics say the new law compromises the protection of individual liberties. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA More Than 40 Dead And Dozens Injured After Bombing In Kabul On Thursday, more than 40 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Reuters' Kabul bureau chief James Mackenzie for an update on the details of the attack. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA IRS Warns Strategy Of Prepaying Property Taxes May Not Be Allowed Homeowners in high-tax areas have been racing to prepay their 2018 property taxes in an effort to beat the new deduction limits that take effect next year. But the IRS warns in many cases that strategy may not be allowed. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: Where Roy Moore's Voter Fraud Claims Fall Flat The Alabama GOP Senate nominee's lawsuit was dismissed by a judge on Thursday as the Secretary of State certified Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the special election earlier this month. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Will Gathering Vast Troves of Information Really Lead To Better Health? Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into research labs in an effort to collect genetic information on a million people. But some skeptics say the focus should be on humans themselves, not DNA. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Cold Much? Here Are Tips From NPR's Northern Stations Merino wool gets a big shout-out; so do flannel-lined pants. Warming up the car is a good idea — but stay in the car in Eau Claire, Wis., or you'll face a steep fine. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Flint Accused Of Violating Agreement To Replace Lead Service Lines Advocacy groups say Flint isn't sharing information about efforts to remove lead service lines. They're asking a judge to force the city to comply. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Liberia Elects Soccer Star George Weah Its Next President For the first time in 70 years, the country will transfer power from one elected president to another. Many Liberians identify with Weah, who grew up poor before becoming a top striker in Europe. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Liberia Elects Soccer Star George Weah Its Next President For the first time in 70 years, the country will transfer power from one elected president to another. Many Liberians identify with Weah, who grew up poor before becoming a top striker in Europe. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How The Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets As word got out on Christmas Day about the sudden proliferation of winning tickets, a frenzy reportedly ensued. The state has suspended sales and validations of the game while it investigates. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Size (And Sound) Matters When It Comes To Bubbles In Your Sparkling Wine Scientists at the University of Texas listened to the bubbles in a champagne and a sparkling wine and found that the more expensive product had smaller, busier bubbles. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Putin Says St. Petersburg Blast Was Terrorism A bomb went off in a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket, injuring at least 13 shoppers. Investigators say the device was homemade and packed with shrapnel. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Want To Help Someone In A Poor Village? Give Them A Bus Ticket Out Most aid to people in poor places tries to improve conditions where they live. But a growing body of research suggests that there's a far more effective strategy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Some Of 2017's Biggest National Stories, In Pictures As the year draws to a close and the news cycle continues to reset every day, let's pause and revisit some of the most important news events from 2017. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Bombing Attack Kills 41 In Kabul; ISIS Claims Responsibility The attack struck on the third anniversary of the day that the U.S.-led NATO coalition officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NPR Bracket, Round 2 Results: Only 16 Stories Remain Fallout from sexual harassment, Comey's firing and the Mueller probe are all in strong positions to be the top political stories of 2017. Will there be an upset Thursday? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Roy Moore Files Complaint, Seeking To Delay Certification Of Vote Alabama Republican Roy Moore says that election fraud occurred that was "sufficient to overturn the outcome," calling for an investigation and delay of certifying the vote. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA This Tax Loophole For Wealthy Donors Just Got Bigger In several states, private schools could see a windfall next year thanks to the new tax bill. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Accomplished A Lot In 2017, But At What Cost? Despite being an unconventional GOP candidate, President Trump has largely delivered on a conservative agenda. The Republican tax bill was a particularly noteworthy win. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Fear Of Needles May Chip Away At Vaccination Rates Public health officials worry about the number of parents who aren't getting children vaccinated. A study suggests that getting multiple shots while in preschool contributes to vaccine fear. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FDA Takes Too Long To Recall Tainted Food, Federal Investigators Say The inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services raised significant concerns regarding the Food and Drug Administration's removal of tainted food from store shelves. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Disneyland Power Outage Knocks Rides Offline A brief power outage disrupted about a dozen rides during a busy holiday week. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA For Rex Tillerson, A Rocky First Year As Trump's Secretary Of State Tillerson says he has scored no diplomatic wins for 2017, but believes his redesign plan will improve the State Department. Critics argue he's done so much damage that it may take years to recover. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New York Vineyard Takes A Risk On Ice Wine For A Sweet Reward Most of the ice wine in the Unites States comes from Canada and Germany. But now, American wineries in places like upstate New York and Michigan are also starting to produce some of their own. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why Some Teen Moms Can't Get The Pain Relief They Choose In Childbirth In more than a dozen U.S. states, laws prohibit pregnant teens from getting epidural anesthesia during labor, or even some kinds of prenatal treatment, without a parent's consent. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'WSJ' Analysis Shows Fake Comments Submitted To Government Agencies NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter James Grimaldi about the discovery that at least five governmental agencies receive fake comments challenging the agencies' rules. In its latest analysis, The Journal found that 40 percent of those surveyed said they did not write the comments attributed to them on the Labor Department's website. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Lawyers For Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Will Be Allowed To See Where They're Held Only 41 "war on terror" captives remain at the prison camps on the U.S. navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Roughly a third of them are being held there at Camp 7, a lockup so secret that its very location is classified. Known as "high value detainees." they all underwent brutal interrogations in secret CIA prisons elsewhere. Now a military judge is letting some of their lawyers visit Camp 7 for the first, and possibly only, time. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Secretary Of State Tillerson Worked On In 2017 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he hasn't put any diplomatic wins on the board this year, but he believes his reforms are putting the State Department in a better, more efficient place. His critics don't agree and say it will take the department years to recover. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FBI Agents Association Sees Increased Donations As Special Counsel Criticism Continues President Trump and Congressional Republicans are continuing a campaign to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller. In response, the FBI Agents Association has seen an uptick in donations. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA California Prepares For Recreational Marijuana Sales On Jan. 1. On Jan. 1, recreational marijuana will be legal to buy and sell in California. It's the largest state so far to make the move, which is raising regulatory and enforcement concerns nationwide. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Library Of Congress Announces It Will Be Selective In Which Tweets It Archives The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday that it will no longer archive every tweet published on Twitter. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with social media scholar Michael Zimmer about the challenges the library has faced in its efforts to collect every tweet. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Growing Alliance With Venezuela's Armed Forces Has Let President Maduro Stay In Power Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's survival strategy amid an economic crisis and plummeting popularity is to surround himself with military. Retired and active military officers now make up almost half Maduro's cabinet and hold most of the top ministerial portfolios. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How Fisherman Are Faring In Washington Months After Salmon Spill Last summer, more than 100,000 farmed Atlantic salmon spilled into Puget Sound off the coast of Washington, threatening the wild salmon population. Local fishermen scrambled to catch them all. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with fishermen Riley Starks about what's happened since. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Russian Doping Whistleblower Says He Fears For His Life NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News about Grigory Rodchenkov, the whistleblower in the Russian doping scandal. Rodchenkov fled to the U.S. and says he now fears for his life. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Accidentally Killing Birds Isn't A Crime, Says Trump Administration A legal memo from the Department of the Interior declares that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act only applies to purposeful actions that kill migratory birds. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017. Here Is What They Do And How They Measure Up Despite his own claims to the contrary, President Trump signed fewer laws than any of his recent predecessors. But numbers aren't everything. Significance matters more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Tesla Will Build An Electric Pickup Truck, Elon Musk Promises In the sort of tease at which he's an expert in delivering to Tesla's faithful, Musk said the truck could be bigger than Ford's F-150, "to account for a really gamechanging (I think) feature." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA When Harry Met Barack: Obama Tells Prince About Life After White House Leaving the White House after the inauguration, Obama says his first thought was gratitude for his wife, Michelle. He describes days still driven by purpose, but with more leisurely breakfasts. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA California Says Nestle Lacks Permits To Extract Millions Of Gallons Of Water California regulators say Nestle lacks the legal permits for millions of gallons of water it extracts from the San Bernardino National Forest and sells under the Arrowhead brand. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA In The Wake Of #MeToo, More Victims Seek Help For Repressed Trauma Some local rape crisis centers and national hotlines that help victims of sexual harassment and assault are reporting a flood of calls at what is usually a slower time of year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How A Typical Teen Did Something Not So Typical To Help Street Kids James Okina of Calabar, Nigeria, was on his way to a soccer match when a chance encounter with a homeless kid changed both of their lives. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Got The Scoop On The Gardner Museum Art Heist? You Have 4 Days To Earn $10 Million In 1990, two men stole 13 pieces of art from a Boston museum. They're worth half a billion dollars ... if you could sell them. On the other hand, the museum has a hefty reward for their whereabouts. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NPR Bracket, Round 1 Results: Top Seeds Advance, 'The Mooch' With An Upset Voting continues Wednesday for you to decide the top political story of the year. After the first round of voting, there are 32 stories left with some big match ups ahead. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA After A Vow To End 'This American Carnage,' A Year Of Deadly Violence Though America saw the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in 2017, efforts to enact new gun laws, once again, stalled in Congress. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Virginia's Tie-Breaker Draw Is Postponed; Pivotal Race Still In Doubt "Drawing names is an action of last resort," elections board chairman James Alcorn said, after a new legal challenge in the race that's expected to determine control of the state legislature. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA After A Vow To End 'This American Carnage,' A Year Of Deadly Violence Though America saw the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in 2017, efforts to enact new gun laws, once again, stalled in Congress. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why Foster Care Students In Seattle Are Beating The Odds A Seattle-area nonprofit called Treehouse helped almost nine out of 10 students from the foster care system graduate high school this past year — a huge increase in a few short years. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Year In Race: Saying Goodbye So long, Dick Gregory, Fats Domino, Simeon Booker and many others you might not have heard of. Here's our Code Switch look back at some of the significant passings in 2017. Read more on NPR

#Breaking In 2017, Sports Was A Battleground For National Events Steve Inskeep talks to USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan and Washington Post writer Kevin Blackistone about the top sports stories of 2017 that resonated beyond the world of sport. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Home For The Holidays? Get Off The Couch! If you sit too much during middle age — at work and at home — your ability to exercise or even walk in late decades is at risk, research hints. And, of course, your risk of heart disease climbs, too. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Tax Bill's New Way Of Measuring Inflation Could Take A Toll On Taxpayers The tax overhaul legislation uses an alternative measure of inflation that will show less upward pressure on prices. That means tax brackets will adjust upward less often, making many people pay more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA From The Loyalty Pledge To Mueller As A 'Savior': 2017's Most Popular Russia Stories The investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election began more than a year ago, and the story has only gotten more complicated. Here are the highlights from NPR.org. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA After Maria, One Of The World's Best Bioluminescent Bays Slowly Begins To Glow Again Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Vieques, an island eight miles off the coast of Puerto Rico. Its bioluminescent bay, a lifeline for its vital tourism industry, is starting to show signs of recovery. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Turks Fleeing To Greece Find Mostly Warm Welcome, Despite History More than a year after a failed military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hundreds of Turkish citizens are seeking refuge in Greece — despite long rivalries between the 2 nations. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Biggest Education Stories Of 2017 And 2018 Betsy DeVos, school choice, civil rights, student loans and for-profit colleges: A look at the year in education and the big stories we're watching next year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Kidnapped, Abandoned Children Turn Up At Mosul Orphanage As ISIS Battle Ends An orphanage in the Iraqi city of Mosul is caring for confused and unidentified children left in the wake of ISIS. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Court Challenge Delays Drawing To Decide Virginia House Race A drawing scheduled for Wednesday that could have decided which Virginia candidate would become a state delegate, and potentially determine whether the Republican Party will stay in control, has been postponed. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rachel Bitecofer of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., about the development. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet The library says that as of Jan. 1, it will only acquire tweets "on a very selective basis." By 2013, the archive had already amassed more than 170 billion tweets. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA As Corals Wither Around The World, Scientists Try IVF Battered by climate change and pollution, coral reefs are dying off. But in Guam, one group of scientists are trying to revive these tiny animals — with the coral equivalent of IVF. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA In A New Deal-Era Cannery, Old Meets New During the New Deal, the government set up hundreds of public canneries in small towns. Most have disappeared, but a surviving cannery in Farmville, Va., is getting a boost from local farmers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Pennsylvania City Gets Record-Breaking 56.5 Inches Of Snow In Pennsylvania, people in Erie received 56.5 inches of snow in the past two days. The National Weather Service says that's an all-time two-day record for Pennsylvania, breaking the previous record of 44 inches in 1958. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Encore: How Trump Teases, Threatens And Dodges With 'We'll See What Happens' President Trump frequently says "We will see what happens" about matters large and small, creating uncertainty for the media, members of his administration and even world leaders. But what do these constant teases mean for the presidency? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Holiday Season Seems To Have Helped Struggling Retail Industry Americans spent freely over the holidays, making it the best Christmas shopping season in years. Sales picked up as the economy continues to recover, with unemployment down and consumer confidence up. Weather and a favorable shopping calendar also boosted the fortunes of retailers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Politico' Report Finds Lack Of Transparency Surrounding Work Of Trump's Cabinet Secretaries NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Politico reporter Emily Holden about their investigation of President Trump's cabinet. They looked into 17 members of and found that many of them provide little or no information about what the they're working on, breaking from the policies of the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why Homeowners Are Scrambling To Prepay Their 2018 Property Taxes Some homeowners around the country are scrambling to prepay their 2018 property taxes. That's because the tax overhaul President Trump signed into law last week limits the amount of state and local taxes deducted on people's federal returns next year. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Role Opposition Parties Play In Russian Politics Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition politician, has been banned from running in next year's presidential elections. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to reporter Charles Maynes in Moscow about how effective the Russian opposition can be when it is politically sidelined. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Daily Beast' Editor-In-Chief Says Unusual Reporter Pairing Is Behind Latest Success The Daily Beast is enjoying some success with an unusual pairing of reporters at the White House. Asawin Suebsaeng came from Mother Jones and Lachlan Markay wrote for a series of conservative publications before joining the publication. Editor-in-chief John Avlon says he thinks the pairing is helping their coverage stand out. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 2017 Marks Turbulent Year For U.S.-Turkey Relations The United States and Turkey have long been allies, with Turkey being a critical U.S. ally in the fight against ISIS. But 2017 was one of the most turbulent years in memory for relations between the two countries. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Control of Virginia's House Of Delegates Rests With Two Film Canisters NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with James Alcorn, chairman of Virginia's board of elections about drawing a film canister from a crystal bowl tomorrow, which will have a slip of paper that will decide which candidate will become a state delegate. It will also determine whether the Republican Party will keep control of the State House, or if the delegates will be split with the Democrats. Read more on NPR