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#Breaking #News #USA W.Va. Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue Despite Governor's Deal With Unions After Gov. Jim Justice and union leaders announced an agreement had been made to end the teacher strike, uncertainty forced all of the state's counties to call off school yet again. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Georgia School Evacuated After Teacher Barricaded Himself In Classroom And Fired Gun No students were in the classroom when the teacher fired the weapon, and despite a chaotic lockdown, the only injury was a student who hurt her ankle running away. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Walmart Announces It Will No Longer Sell Guns, Ammunition To Anyone Under 21 Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S., announced it will stop selling guns and ammunition to anyone under 21. The decision comes on the same day that Dick's Sporting Goods said it would stop selling military-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, as well as guns to anyone under 21. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Three Marines Treated After Exposure To Suspicious Substance From Envelope 11 personnel at Virginia's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall felt ill, and 3 were transported to a hospital for further medical evaluations. All 3 were released. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Democrat Says Election Will Decide DACA's Fate Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin is conceding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program won't be extended any time soon. He says the fall election will decide DACA's fate. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Backs Conflicting Gun Measures While Negotiating With Lawmakers On TV In a freewheeling talk with Republicans and Democrats on efforts to curtail gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Spotify Files Papers For A $1 Billion Entry To The Stock Market The world's most popular music streaming service has announced its long-anticipated plan to debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify's fate, however, isn't entirely in its own hands. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA LISTEN: Dolphins Use Targeted Echolocation To Plan Their Hunting Dives Oxygen is a precious resource for dolphins. A new study suggests they use it efficiently by remembering what they learn during a dive, then applying that information to future foraging expeditions. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Pedestrian Fatalities Remain At 25-Year High For Second Year In A Row In 2015 and 2016, the number of pedestrians killed in the U.S. increased significantly. In 2017, the number held steady at nearly 6,000 estimated fatalities, according to a new report. Read more on NPR

#Breaking CEO Of U.S. Olympic Committee Resigns Citing Health Concerns Amid Nassar Fallout A USOC. statement cited health issues from prostate cancer as the reason for Scott Blackmun's resignation, at the same time it announced new reforms to protect "the Olympic community" from abuse. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Russia's Olympic Committee Reinstated After Doping Scandal The International Olympic Committee says remaining test results from Russians who competed at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have come back negative. 168 Russians took part as neutral athletes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Russia's Olympic Committee Reinstated After Doping Scandal The International Olympic Committee says remaining test results from Russians who competed at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have come back negative. 168 Russians took part as neutral athletes. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Amid Pressure From Nassar Case, USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun Will Step Down NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Sally Jenkins about the resignation of U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun, who cited health problems due to prostate cancer as his reason for stepping down, but there have also been calls for his resignation for not doing enough to address the sexual abuse cases within the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Amid Pressure From Nassar Case, USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun Will Step Down NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Sally Jenkins about the resignation of U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun, who cited health problems due to prostate cancer as his reason for stepping down, but there have also been calls for his resignation for not doing enough to address the sexual abuse cases within the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Hope Hicks To Resign As White House Communications Director Hicks has worked for President Trump for three years, remaining a close aide even as many others were pushed out. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Lawmakers Meet With President Trump To Discuss School Shooting Prevention President Trump hosted Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the White House Wednesday to discuss proposals to prevent school shootings. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why A New E.U. Draft Of How Brexit Should Work Is Complicating Matters The future status of the United Kingdom's border with Ireland is once again proving a huge obstacle in the long process of Britain leaving the European Union. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Examines Strict Laws For Inside Polling Places Polling places are politics-free zones. Could that change with a Supreme Court case out of Minnesota? The Supreme Court heard arguments in a key case Wednesday. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Dick's Sporting Goods Shoppers React To Company's Decision To Limit Gun Sales After Dick's Sporting Goods announced it will stop selling assault-style rifles like the one used in the Florida high school shooting, shoppers around the country react to that decision. The company also said it will no longer sell high-capacity magazines, and it's setting a minimum age of 21 to buy other firearms. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Dolly Parton's Nonprofit Reaches Milestone With 100 Million Books Sent To Children This week, country music legend Dolly Parton celebrated a big milestone: 100 million books. That's right, books. Parton's nonprofit, Imagination Library, mails free books to children from birth to age 5 across the country, and this week, she celebrated the program's remarkable growth in a special ceremony at the Library of Congress. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Jury Selection Set To Begin For Trial Of Wife Of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Jury selection begins tomorrow for the trial of Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen. Salman has pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sen. Dick Durbin Weighs In On Path Forward For Immigration Reform After the Senate failed to advance a proposal for a path forward on thorny immigration issues, many young migrants in the U.S. face an uncertain future. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who originally brought the plight of DREAMers to the Senate, about the next steps he's hoping for. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Detained Migrants In Libya Have A Choice: Buy Your Way Out Or Be Sold Into Bondage African migrants trying to get to Europe have been getting detained in Libya and sold into temporary slavery by gangs and militias. Some told their stories at a shelter in Tunisia after they escaped. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA If You Want To Find The Millennium Falcon, Just Head To The National Cathedral For the last six months, a red-tailed hawk has made its home in the ramparts of the Washington National Cathedral. And now, it officially has a name: Millennium Falcon. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Look At The Narrow Point Of Intersection Between Mental Health And Gun Violence NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl about the narrow point of intersection between the worlds of mental illness and gun violence. He says there's not much more the mental health field can do to prevent potential mass shooters, since the best predictive factors fall out of the scope of the medical field. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Classes Resume At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 2 Weeks After 17 Killed Classes resumed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two weeks after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting. Although not all are ready to come back, the school says 95 percent of the school's students returned to classes today. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Some Disneyland Employees Struggle To Pay For Food, Shelter, Survey Finds More than two-thirds of unionized workers at Disneyland in California tell surveyors that they are food insecure at the place advertised as the "happiest place on earth." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump, Congressional Leaders Honor Billy Graham In Rare Capitol Hill Tribute Ahead of Friday's funeral in North Carolina, the evangelist is lying in honor at the Capitol rotunda through Thursday; it is just the fourth time a private citizen has been recognized in that way. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA From Little Rock to Parkland: A Brief History of Youth Activism This isn't the first time young people have tried to change the world. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA In Ethiopia, Bitter Social Conflict Plays Out On The Soccer Field Protests have raged across Ethiopia for three years — and they're spilling over to the country's favorite sport. Read more on NPR

#Breaking In Ethiopia, Bitter Social Conflict Plays Out On The Soccer Field Protests have raged across Ethiopia for three years — and they're spilling over to the country's favorite sport. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA As Stoneman Douglas Resumes Class, Survivors Become Students Once More Two weeks after a gunman murdered 17 people at the high school, students returned to class Wednesday — this time joined by police officers, grief counselors, and the supporters cheering them on. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Ben Carson And HUD Face Allegations Of Lavish Spending, Including $31,000 Furniture A whistle-blower also filed a complaint alleging she was demoted for refusing to exceed the legal $5,000 limit on new decor. The allegations come as HUD's budget could be slashed by billions. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Still Thirsty? It's Up To Your Brain, Not Your Body Thirst is what compels us to start hydrating. Now scientists have found a brain circuit in mice that seems to switch off thirst when they've taken in enough fluid and before it gets dangerous. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Secretive Sect Opens A Debate On Female Genital Mutilation The Bohras, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, practice cutting as a clandestine ritual. Now, the arrest of a Bohra doctor in Detroit for performing FGM has inspired a frank discussion in Pakistan. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Afghan President Urges Taliban To Talk Peace, Offering Political Recognition At a conference in Kabul , Ashraf Ghani offered the insurgent group a variety of incentives to come to the negotiating table — including passports, a political office and the release of prisoners. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Does It Mean To Be A 'Nation Of Immigrants'? Families have played a huge role in helping new immigrants succeed, argues UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura. Changing the rules would dramatically change the face of immigration. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Brief History Of The AR-15 The semi-automatic rifle has been in wide circulation for more than a half-century. In recent years, gunmen have used AR-15-style weapons to carry out many of the country's worst mass shootings. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: Sessions Vows To Probe FISA Abuse, But Trump's Patience Appears Thin The attorney general has attempted to move the ball forward on the political defense Republicans have adopted for the president. That's apparently not good enough for President Trump. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Researchers Haven't Found A Single Endangered Right Whale Calf Yet This Season "The right whales are at a point where more are dying than are being born," biologist Clay George says. "That's just not sustainable long-term." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA North Korea Reportedly Sending Missile, Chemical Weapons Parts To Syria According to a draft report seen by several news organizations, U.N. investigators found that the sanctions-busting shipments date back a decade. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sweet Redemption As Men's Curling Team Brings Olympic Gold Home To Duluth "The Olympics are great and all," but returning home was "way cooler than the Olympics," declared John Landsteiner, an engineer in Duluth, Minn. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Texans: What Issues Are Driving You To The Polls? NPR wants to hear what issues are motivating voters in Texas, which holds the first primary of the 2018 election season. Share your thoughts with us. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Sweet Redemption As Men's Curling Team Brings Olympic Gold Home To Duluth "The Olympics are great and all," but returning home was "way cooler than the Olympics," declared John Landsteiner, an engineer in Duluth, Minn. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Rise Of Yeast: How Civilization Was Shaped By Sugar Fungi Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, The Rise of Yeast, points out, it leaves its mark on other foods, too, including coffee, and even chocolate. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Dick's Sporting Goods Ends Sale Of Assault-Style Rifles, Citing Florida Shooting CEO Ed Stack announced Wednesday that the national retailer is also banning the sale of all guns to customers under the age of 21. The company is one of the country's largest sports retailers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Stories: North Korea Allegedly Supports Syria; The 'Right To Be Forgotten' Also: Afghanistan's leader calls for unconditional talks with the Taliban; Southern California officials fear mudslides and call evacuations ahead of a storm; and Barbra Streisand clones her dog. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Too Late To Operate? Surgery Near End Of Life Is Common, Costly Nearly 1 in 3 Medicare patients undergoes an operation in the final year of life. The benefits are often limited, but the costs and side effects can be substantial. Read more on NPR

#Breaking U.S. Men's Curling Team Brings Olympic Gold Home To Minnesota The team got a hero's welcome Tuesday night in their hometown of Duluth, Minn. It's sweet redemption for captain John Shuster, whose team finished last and second-to-last in the last two Olympics. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Google Received 650,000 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests Since 2014 The search giant says in a new report that beginning in mid-2014, after a court ruling on the "right to be forgotten," it received 650,000 requests to delist 2.4 million URLs from search results. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Polling Place Battleground: Freedom Of Speech Versus Freedom From Intimidation Polling places are a politics-free zone. Could that change with a Supreme Court case out of Minnesota? The court is hearing arguments in a key case on this Wednesday. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA West Virginia Teachers Ending Strike West Virginia teachers are ending their strike, which has shut down all of the public schools since last Thursday. Union leaders met with Gov. Jim Justice, and they have settled on higher pay rates. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty, More Segregation "Whoever thought that 50 years later, we'd still be talking about the same things? That's kinda sad," Kerner Commission member Fred Harris said. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Amazon Acquires Ring, Expanding Reach Into Home Security The tech giant bought the smart-doorbell maker in a deal reportedly exceeding $1 billion on Tuesday. It marks another big step into the camera surveillance business for the online retailer. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Federal Judge Who Was Disparaged By Trump Greenlights Border Wall Project The same judge Trump once called a "hater" issued a ruling allowing the administration's plans to construct the border wall to proceed. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Washington Post' Says Foreign Officials Have Discussed How To Manipulate Kushner NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post about how officials in at least four countries had been discussing how to manipulate Jared Kushner. She says intelligence regarding these conversations have held up his security clearance. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA German Court Will Let Cities Ban Some Diesel Cars To Decrease Pollution A German court has ruled that cities may bans diesel cars in order to bring down emissions levels. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Pregnancy Rate Might Predict Future Recessions, Researchers Suggest Conventional wisdom holds that fertility rates go down in response to an economic downturn. But a new study found that conception rates begin to drop before a recession actually begins. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Gets Downgraded, According To Reports Jared Kushner's security clearance has been downgraded to secret, according to multiple reports. Other Trump administration officials with temporary clearances have also had their clearance reduced. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Bernie Sanders Political Dynasty? Senator's Son, Stepdaughter Run For Office The son of the Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate is seeking a congressional seat in New Hampshire. Sanders' stepdaughter is running for mayor of Burlington, Vt., an office he once held. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NSA Chief: U.S. Response 'Hasn't Changed The Calculus' Of Russian Interference Adm. Mike Rogers says Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded he can continue to meddle in U.S. cyberspace with little price to pay. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Reports: Kushner Security Clearance Downgraded Following White House Scandal Jared Kushner has lost his Top Secret clearance. "No concerns were raised about Mr. Kushner's application," his lawyer said in a statement. Instead, the lawyer pointed to a backlog in the process. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA House To Vote On Online Sex Trafficking Bill The House votes Tuesday on a bill giving prosecutors and victims more power to hold websites accountable for sex trafficking on their platforms. Some companies and digital rights groups oppose it, saying it will chip away at the legal immunity that's a pillar of the Internet. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who wrote the Senate version, tells NPR the tech industry is overreacting. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why Diesel-Powered Cars Are Bigger In Europe Than In The U.S. Diesel-powered cars are bigger in Europe and the rest of the world than in the United States, but why? A big part of it is the failure of U.S. carmakers to make a reliable diesel car in the 1970s, while another part of it is that diesel engines are nosier and pollute more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA German High Court Rules That Cities Can Ban Diesel Vehicles To Reduce Pollution A high court in Germany says a city suffering from excessive air pollution can ban older diesel vehicles from its streets, if officials cannot find other ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions to E.U.-mandated levels. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Threatens Delta Airlines After Company Cuts Ties With NRA After Atlanta-based Delta Airlines eliminated a special discount program for NRA members, Georgia's lieutenant governor has threatened to fight against a tax break for the company. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks about what's at stake with Georgia Public Broadcasting's Stephen Fowler. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Anti-Defamation League Report Shows Anti-Semitic Incidents Rose From 2016 To 2017 The Anti-Defamation League released a report Tuesday that said the number of anti-Semitic incidents rose significantly from 2016 to 2017. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, about the report's findings. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Comcast Makes $31 Billion Bid For European Broadcaster Sky In a bid that appears designed to scuttle a deal planned by rivals, Comcast has offered $31 billion for Sky, Europe's largest broadcaster. If the Comcast bid is successful it will destroy Rupert Murdoch's plan to turn many of his assets over to Disney at a premium price. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'Miami Herald' Journalist Explains How A Hoax Tweet Affected Her Reporting On Shooting NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to reporter Alex Harris of the Miami Herald about a pair of hoax tweets that affected her reporting on the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Is It Real Diversity If Brands Don't Want The Opinions That Come With New Faces? Beauty brands are being criticized for promoting one brand ambassador while shunning another. In Revlon's case the Israeli actress Gal Godot, a vocal supporter of the Israeli Defense Forces. In L'Oreal's the model Amena Khan, who was praised as the first hair-care ambassador in hijab, only to resign under fire for pro-Palestinian tweets. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA State Department Loses Expert Diplomat On North Korea The State Department's point person on North Korea is the latest official to leave after a long career in diplomacy. Experts see Joseph Yun's departure as a major setback in efforts to find a diplomatic way out of the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy Discusses The Path Forward For Gun Policy Since the school shooting in Sandy Hook, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has been on a mission to rein in gun violence. That has been an uphill battle in a deeply divided Congress. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Murphy about his fight and what he sees as the path forward. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA West Virginia Teacher Outline Strikers Demands, Discusses Potential Remedies NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brianne Solomon, a teacher on strike in West Virginia. Solomon talks about the demands being made by strikers, and why she thinks remedies offered by the state aren't acceptable. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA 'We Were In That School': Parkland Students Prepare To Return After Shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students return to school Wednesday after surviving a shooting there. Sophomore Gabe Glassman captures what day-to-day life is like for these students now. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Anti-Semitic Incidents See Largest Single-Year Increase On Record, Audit Finds The Anti-Defamation League annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents found 1,986 such occurrences, including 457 at K-12 schools and 204 on college campuses. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Why Saudi Arabia Is Suddenly Shaking Up Its Military The kingdom replaced top military brass, opened armed forces jobs to women and promoted a woman to a senior Labor Ministry post in a series of rare steps in the ultraconservative kingdom. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New Air Force One Deal Cleared For Takeoff President Trump has reached an "informal agreement" with Boeing to buy two new 747s to serve as Air Force One. The company says he got a bargain, but one independent analyst is skeptical. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Long-Term Effects Of Psychotropic Drugs Are 'Cloaked In Mystery' When it comes to antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, author Lauren Slater says, "We don't really know what we're taking into our bodies." Her new book is Blue Dreams. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Lawmakers Agree On Paid Family Leave, But Not The Details Passage of paid family leave laws in states like Washington is spurring federal lawmakers from both parties to float their own proposals, but so far support is not bridging party lines. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Sen. Corker Really Isn't Running For Re-Election (Seriously) This time the Tennessee Republican means it. Sen. Bob Corker had been wavering after he announced in September that he would be retiring. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Congress Stalled On Bills To Tighten Gun Background Check System Lawmakers have made little progress in advancing any new gun control measures in since the February 14 shooting that left 17 people dead at a high school in Parkland, Florida, Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Asian Ticks (Mysteriously) Turned Up On A New Jersey Sheep No one is quite sure how it got there. And get this: It basically clones itself! Should we be worried? Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA As Milk Prices Decline, Worries About Dairy Farmer Suicides Rise The nation's dairy farmers are facing their fourth year of depressed milk prices. The outlook is so bleak, it's increased worries about farmer suicides. One recent outreach effort drew criticism. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Can Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely The court ruled that immigrants, even those who are permanent legal residents and asylees, have no right to periodic bond hearings, meaning they can be held indefinitely. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Education Department Wants To Protect Student-Loan Debt Collectors The Trump administration is considering a policy change to prevent states from making tough demands of companies that collect student loan debt, according to an internal document obtained by NPR. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Stories: Trump's Direction On Guns; Deadly Papua New Guinea Quake Also: Georgia's lieutenant governor threatens to end Delta's tax break over NRA ties; a new report warns of the dangers of U.S. poverty and racial inequality; and a warm Arctic means a colder Europe. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Which Direction Is Trump Heading On Guns? The president made it seem like he wanted to take a bipartisan approach right after the Florida school shooting. As of late, he's spent more time with the NRA, and it's beginning to show. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Georgia's Lt. Gov. Threatens To Kill Tax Break For Delta Airlines Amid NRA Spat Republican Casey Cagle says he will "kill" pending legislation to give Delta a tax exemption on jet fuel after the carrier said it was ending its discount for NRA members. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA A Hip Charleston Restaurant Where Women Are The Boss The #MeToo movement has forced many restaurants and chefs to confront sexual harassment in their own ranks. At Cannon Green, where women mentor other women, the atmosphere seems much less turbulent. Read more on NPR

#Breaking NFL To Demand Cowboys Owner Reimburse Legal Fees, Reports Say The NFL wants Jerry Jones to pay more than $2 million in fees after he threatened to derail Commissioner Goodell's contract extension and engaged in other battles, according to published reports. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA NFL To Demand Cowboys Owner Reimburse Legal Fees, Reports Say The NFL wants Jerry Jones to pay more than $2 million in fees after he threatened to derail Commissioner Goodell's contract extension and engaged in other battles, according to published reports. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Rapper 50 Cent, Who Bragged About Owning Bitcoin, Now Denies It Last month, the artist, whose is filing for bankruptcy, said he "forgot" he owned the cryptocurrency, which by some estimates would have been worth nearly $8 million. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Hollywood Diversity Study Finds 'Mixed Bag' When It Comes To Representation The report finds that broadcast TV and children's series are increasingly diverse, but people of color remain underrepresented on all fronts, including lead roles, writers, directors and showrunners. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Your 2018 Health Plan Must Comply With ACA Rules Or You Risk Tax Penalties The tax reform law passed in December did repeal the Affordable Care Act's penalties for not having comprehensive health insurance. But the penalties are still in effect until 2019. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Powers Small Dollar Donor Surge For Democratic Fundraising Site The site, ActBlue, raised a record $522.7 million for Democrats in 2017. By comparison, President Trump's campaign took in $350.7 million over two years for the 2016 election. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Curious Case Of A Florida Man Who Called Politicians Corrupt, Got Thrown In Jail Fane Lozman's second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday could have far-reaching implications for freedom of speech. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA New Front In Data Privacy At The Supreme Court: Can U.S. Seize Emails Stored Abroad? The Supreme Court to decide whether a U.S. warrant can compel Microsoft to turn over a user's emails stored in Ireland. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Feeding the Green-Eyed Monster: What Happens When Envy Turns Ugly Envy is an unflattering, miserable emotion. It can prompt us to improve our lives — and also cause us to feel resentment, rage, and a desire for revenge. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Pays Treasury Undisclosed Sum For Hotel Profits From Foreign Governments The Trump Organization did not disclose the size of the payment. At least three lawsuits allege President Trump is violating anti-corruption provisions in the Constitution. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Mississippi GOP Senator Gets A Familiar Challenger From The Right Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who nearly upset Sen. Thad Cochran in a bitter 2014 race, is teasing that he will mount a conservative primary challenge to Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Seeking To Make Schools Safer, Florida Legislators Take Up Gun Measures State lawmakers are tackling bills that, if passed, would impose age limits on gun sales, implement a waiting period and allow authorities to confiscate weapons. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Racket In Brazil: Gangs Are Blowing Up Banks For Cash Exploding ATMs add another complication to Rio de Janeiro's chronic security crisis, spreading fear among the public and dealing a blow to property prices for residents with homes near banks. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Bike-Share Firm Hits The Brakes In France After 'Mass Destruction' Of Dockless Bikes Gobee is a no-go, at least in France: The first dockless bike-sharing program to launch in that country has shut down French operations after thousands of bikes were stolen or destroyed. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Scientists Predict King Penguins Face Major Threats Due To Climate Change The researchers say the problem is their primary source of food is moving further away from places where the animals can breed. They're likely going to have to swim farther for their dinner. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Pension Funds Under Pressure To Sell Off Investments In Gun Makers Since the mass killing at a Parkland, Fla., earlier this month, many teachers have called on funds to sell their stakes in gun makers. But some fund manager say that may not lead to industry change. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Broward Sheriff Under Scrutiny For Handling Of Parkland Shooting Florida's governor ordered an investigation into law enforcement response to the Parkland shooting. The sheriff says that so far, only one of his deputies has been shown to have acted improperly. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Army Creating Units Whose Training And Mission Is To Serve As Advisers The Army has deployed advisors to foreign military forces for decades. But is has been an ad hoc assignment with mixed success. Now the Army is forming brigades specifically trained to be advisors, with specialized training. The operative principal is cross-cultural empathy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Trump Reportedly Considering Naming His Personal Pilot To Head FAA The Federal Aviation Administration has been without a permanent chief since early this year when President Obama's appointee stepped down. Now, according to reports President Trump has a nominee in mind, one who happens to be his personal pilot. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA On The Navajo Nation, Foster Care Families Are In Short Supply Foster families are in short supply on the Navajo Nation. U.S. law requires Native children be placed with Native families, so a small number of homes take in a large number of foster children. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What The Weinstein Company Filing For Bankruptcy Means For Alleged Sexual Abuse Victims The Weinstein Company is filing for bankruptcy. For alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse that might put compensation further out of reach. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What's The Potential Impact Of Gun Control Ideas Following South Florida Shooting? Congress returns this week for the first time since a shooter killed 17 people inside a Florida high school. Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA who has written extensively about gun regulations, joins NPR's Ailsa Chang to talk about various proposals to regulate access to guns — and what impact those policies could have on preventing mass shootings. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA What Sen. Feinstein Losing Support Of California Democrats Says About The Party California's senior senator, Democrat Diane Feinstein, did not receive the endorsement of her party this weekend. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Seema Mehta about why this happened an what is says about Democrats in California. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Florida Lawmakers Proposing Major Changes To Gun Laws Following Parkland Shooting In Florida, new gun control measures get their first test Monday in a Senate committee, where Democrats will push for a ban on high-powered semiautomatic rifles. Much of the focus now is on the Broward Sheriff department's investigation and response to the shooting, with many GOP lawmakers calling for the sheriff's suspension. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Resistance To Trump's Presidency Is Helping Groups On The Left Raise Money Act Blue is a non-profit that has become a start of Democratic fundraising. The digital fundraising platform for progressive candidates and causes raised $522 million in 2017 — that's more than double its take in 2015. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Appeals Court Rules The Civil Rights Act Protects Gay Workers NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Buzzfeed News political reporter Dominic Holden about Monday's ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit saying that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans gender discrimination, also bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA China Cracks Down On Memes After Proposal To End Presidential Term Limits Following the Chinese Communist Party's announcement that it plans to do away with term limits, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to continue his rule, China's internet censors have cracked down on criticism posted and shared on Chinese social media, including a meme featuring Winnie the Pooh. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA The Implications Of China Eradicating Presidential Term Limits NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the decision of China's Communist Party to abolish term limits for presidents, which would allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Kansas Lawmakers Considering Bill To Lower The Minimum Age For Concealed Carry Governors from across the country met with President Trump at the White House Monday morning. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer about the meeting and the renewed debate over gun control after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Renewing Call To Arm Teachers, Trump Tells Governors The NRA Is 'On Our Side' The president also criticized law enforcement for not doing enough to prevent the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and suggested he would have been more aggressive in engaging the gunman. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA #MosqueMeToo Gives Muslim Women A Voice About Sexual Misconduct At Mecca Inspired by a viral Facebook post, Muslim women around the world are sharing their stories of being groped and fondled in the holiest place in the Islamic world. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Despite U.N. Call For Cease-Fire, Strikes Continue On Damascus Suburb Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area home to more than 350,000 people, has suffered a barrage of attacks for days, and civilian deaths are continuing. Now Russia is calling for a "humanitarian corridor." Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Automakers Say Trump's Anti-NAFTA Push Could Upend Their Industry As the administration seeks to redo the North American Free Trade Agreement, the industry is watching the talks closely. Automakers say changes could drive up costs, making them less competitive. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA FACT CHECK: Read The Democratic Memo From The House Intel Committee Ranking committee member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Saturday released a partially redacted document in response to an earlier memo from Republicans on the panel. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA With Hundreds Of Students, School Counselors Just Try To 'Stay Afloat' School counselors work with students on mental health each day — but with support, they say, they could do more. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Won't Review DACA Case The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a key case dealing with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The court said that the Court of Appeals should hear the case first. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Declines To Take Up Key DACA Case For Now The court said the government's appeal on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be heard by a court of appeals first. Trump had wanted to end the program by March 5. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA West Virginia Schools Closed As Teacher Walkout Enters Day 3 Teacher unions are calling for salary increases and a health care fix, but it's unclear when their demands will be satisfied well enough to send them back to the classroom. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Weinstein Company Will File For Bankruptcy After Sale Talks Collapse New York's attorney general filed a civil rights lawsuit against the company two weeks ago, which may have scuttled the deal. Bankruptcy may also hinder plans for a victim compensation fund. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA How A Skeptical Rancher, Aided By An Outdoors Brand, Turned Climate Friendly It took a bit of arm-twisting to get on board because of previous encounters with environmentalists. But now, partnered with The North Face, the ranch sustainably produces wool for outdoor clothing. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Top Stories: Potential For North Korea Talks; Memorable Olympic Moments Also: Congressional Democrats release their memo on the Russia investigation; deadly weather across the U.S. kills five people; and the Global Seed Vault in Norway now holds 1 million seed varieties. Read more on NPR

#Breaking #News #USA Supreme Court Could Bleed Unions Dry Conservative justices seem poised to overrule a 40-year-old decision that allowed states to compel payment of union fees. Read more on NPR