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Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

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Generation Gap: How Age Shapes Political Outlook

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Nov. 03 (Poll) - A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds wide gaps in how different generations view politics. Older voters are more conservative and less hopeful about the future of the country. Younger voters lean left and believe the nation's best days are yet to come. But they are less engaged.

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Reports: Obama To Propose $300 Billion Package Aimed At Boosting Jobs

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Mark Memmott - Sep. 07 (News Report) - President Obama will propose "$300 billion in federal spending and tax cuts" when he addresses the nation Thursday night during a joint session of Congress, The Associated Press and other news outlets are reporting.

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Debt 'Super Committee' Nearly Complete, At 9 Members

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Aug. 10 (News Report) - BILL CHAPPELL The new "Debt Supercommittee" created by the recent deficit ceiling deal now has 9 of its 12 members, as House Speaker John Boehner says Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas will co-chair the new committee, according to the AP. The panel's task will be to create a bipartisan plan for cutting the federal deficit by around $1.5 trillion. That money could come from a combination of spending cuts and raising revenue. If the panel fails to reach an agreement, automatic cuts would be made — and the automated cuts were crafted to be unpalatable to both of the major political parties.

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This Receipt Tells You Where Your Tax Dollars Go

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Jacob Goldstein - Apr. 17 (News Report) - The White House launched an official taxpayer receipt today. You enter how much you paid in income taxes, and how much you paid for Social Security and Medicare (which have their own special taxes, and are broken out on your W-2). The calculator tells you, dollar by dollar, what you taxes paid for. Take, for example, a married couple that made $80,000, has kids and put 5 percent of their income into a tax-deferred retirement plan. This screengrab shows part of their receipt (click on the image to see a bigger version)

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'New York Times' Unveils Metered Online Paywall

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By David Folkenflik - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The Times is unveiling a metered system under which the paper's most loyal readers would pay for access to the website, though most casual online readers would not pay a cent. Print subscribers would also continue to receive unfettered access at no additional cost. Executives say the time is right, as people have been conditioned by tablets and smart phones to pay for access to content. "We have to be agnostic in regard to how people digest the news product," Janet Robinson, the CEO of The New York Times Co., said in an interview with NPR. "We can't force them to buy a print subscription. We can't force them to buy a digital application. We have to be there in every venue."

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For Journalists, Is It Ever OK To Cheer?

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Npr With Neal Conan, Host - Mar. 10 (Interview) - .announcers couldn't restrain themselves. the crowd erupted in applause, and... so did a number of journalists... tom bowles... admitted that he cheered...he defended it..he says that got him fired.

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The Wilting Climate Change Debate

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Bradford Plumer - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - If you spend enough time listening to climate deniers speak, you start to recognize certain tropes and tics that crop up again and again.

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Could Climate Change Have Led To The Fall Of Rome?

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By NPR Staff - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Rome may have fallen hundreds of years ago, but much of the civilization the Romans built still dots the landscape today. One team of scientists recently unearthed a different kind of Roman artifact that may hold a strange clue to the empire's downfall. A study of tree rings recently published in the journal Science provides evidence of climate shifts that, perhaps not coincidentally, occurred from A.D. 250 to 550, a period better known as the fall of the Roman Empire.

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South Korean Commandos Battle Somali Pirates In Rare Raid

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Jan. 21 (News) - In a top-secret operation reportedly lasting five hours, South Korean special forces scrambled up a ladder onto a hijacked vessel in the Arabian Sea at dawn and saved all 21 crew members aboard the Samho Jewelry. Eight Somali pirates were killed and five were captured alive.

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GAO Report: Policy On Gays Cost Pentagon Nearly $200 Million

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Wright Bryan - Jan. 21 (News) - A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that the United States military spent about $193 million between 2004 and 2009 in connection with the Pentagon's "homosexual conduct policy."

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Closing The Achievement Gap With Baby Talk

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Jan. 10 - A child growing up in a poor home hears fewer words per hour on average than a child in a higher-income household, research has shown. So around the country, programs are trying to reduce the achievement gap by getting parents to talk more to their kids.

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In California, New Governor Faces Budget Woes

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:23:15 -0800

NPR - Jan. 09 - Los Angeles TimesIn California, New Governor Faces Budget WoesNPRCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown will unveil a new state budget Monday, designed to erase a deficit that could be as high as $28 billion dollars, but the new governor won't have much time to fix the state's budget. ...Brown to unveil tight spending plan, reorder govtSan Jose Mercury NewsHow to Revive the California DreamWall Street JournalJerry Brown tries to sell optimism to a battered stateLos Angeles TimesThe Business Insider -Capitol Weekly -New York Timesall 410 news articles »

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Arizona Congresswoman Shot By Gunman

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Jan. 08 (Breaking News) - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.

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Hey, Congress: (Don't) Keep Your Day Jobs

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Linton Weeks, Arnie Seipel - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - Next week, hordes of conservative Republican lawmakers will descend on Washington to take their seats in the freshman class of the 112th Congress. But some prominent conservatives suggest the best thing lawmakers can do to fix Capitol Hill is to stay the heck away from it.

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Pakistan's Military Shapes Relationship With U.S.

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Dec. 22 (News Report) - Classified U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the contempt Pakistan's military has for the country's civilian leaders and the power it wields. A cable from the U.S. envoy laments that Pakistan's military can "break bread with the Americans during the day and sleep with the Taliban at night."

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Signs Of 'Sanity' In Washington

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Oct. 30 (News) - People assembled by the tens of thousands Saturday on the National Mall for a "sanity" rally blending laughs, activism and a call to civility from two improbable maestros of moderation, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

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NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By David Folkenflik - Oct. 21 (News) - NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims.

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Google Invests In Wind Power Line

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By JJ Sutherland - Oct. 12 (News) - The search giant wants to build a cable hundreds of miles long, 15-20 miles off shore, that would carry power from off-shore wind farms. The cable would stretch from Virginia to New Jersey.

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Rethinking The Food Pyramid: USDA Aims For 'Superior' Guide

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Oct. 07 - Nutritionists have criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture's most recent food guide, MyPyramid, released in 2005. The agency says its working on a new, improved version. But don't expect to see it before next year.

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Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake News

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terry Gross, Jon Stewart - Oct. 04 (Interview) - Stewart sat down with Terry Gross on Sept. 29 in front of a live audience at New York City's 92nd Street Y to discuss his time on The Daily Show, his role in the media, and the upcoming rally — which is being billed as "Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement." "Like everything that we do, the march is merely a construct," he says. "It's merely a format, in the way the book is a format, a show is a format ... to be filled with the type of material that Stephen and I do and the point of view [that we have]. People have said, 'It's a rally to counter Glenn Beck.' It's not. What it is was, we saw that and thought, 'What a beautiful outline. What a beautiful structure to fill with what we want to express in live form, festival form."

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Immigration Advocates Target GOP In DREAM Act Ads

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Corey Dade - Oct. 02 (News Report) - To mobilize Hispanic voters in November, big labor and advocates of liberal efforts at overhauling immigration laws have announced a $300,000 ad campaign attacking Republican Senators for blocking passage of the so-called DREAM Act. The ad will air on Spanish-language radio stations in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and other states with large Latino populations. The effort was conceived and funded by the Service Employees International Union, Mi Familia Vota and America's Voice, which say the $300,000 is the most ever spent on a Spanish-language radio campaign by groups such as theirs to make their case on immigration.

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Execution Of Virginia Woman Stirs Objections

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Kathy Lohr - Sep. 30 (News) - The 41-year-old woman was sentenced to death by lethal injection after pleading guilty to being the mastermind in a plot to kill her husband and stepson. But her supporters argued her low IQ should have exempted her from the death penalty.

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Seeing The Internet As An 'Information Weapon'

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Tom Gjelten - Sep. 23 (Special Report) - The United States and other world powers have agreed to arms control measures in recent years that limit the deployment and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, as well as tanks and other artillery pieces. So why is there no arms control measure that would apply to the use of cyberweapons?

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Father: Army Ignored Complaints Of Afghan Slayings

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Tom Bowman - Sep. 22 (News) - Army officials say they are looking into why no one followed up on Chris Winfield's calls. It was after those calls, according to Army documents, that two more killings of Afghan civilians were committed by Gibbs and his soldiers: one in February; another in May.

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