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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives James Baldwin Letters

4:33pm April 13, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, about receiving hundreds of James Baldwin's previously unreleased letters from his estate.

Comedian Charlie Murphy Of 'Chappelle's Show' Dies At 57

4:33pm April 13, 2017

Comedian and actor Charlie Murphy made a name for himself as a writer on Chappelle's Show, with his witty sketches of his encounters with famous people like Prince and Rick James. Murphy died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. He was 57.

After a passenger was dragged off a full flight on Sunday, United has had to do damage control, to the delight of some competitors.

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Rival Airlines Pounce On United's Bad Press

4:27pm April 13, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

United Airlines has a PR disaster on its hands after a passenger was violently removed from a flight to make room for crew. For other airlines, it's a PR opportunity.

In coal country, restoring streams like this one near Logan, W.Va., is a big business. But the practice remains controversial among some scientists.

In Coal Country, Environmental Regulations Are Creating Jobs

4:07pm April 13, 2017

by Glynis Board

Though President Trump speaks about how environmental regulations kill jobs, in some areas, the regulations help create them. In coal country, restoring streams is steady work.

A photo provided by Eglin Air Force Base shows the GBU-43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target on Thursday, the first-ever combat us

U.S. Drops Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever Used In Combat

3:34pm April 13, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

The so-called Mother of All Bombs was dropped Thursday in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says it hit an underground ISIS complex.

Lisa, a client at the AAC Needle Exchange and Overdose Prevention Program in Cambridge, Mass. Nearly five years after an opioid overdose she still limps — possibly because of damage the drug cocktail did to her nerves or muscles.

What Doesn't Kill You Can Maim: Unexpected Injuries From Opioids

2:42pm April 13, 2017

by Martha Bebinger

Emergency room doctors are just beginning to study a new kind of casualty in the opioid epidemic — patients who survive an overdose, but walk away with brain damage, kidney failure or dead muscle.

Customers await their orders at a Burger King in in Marignane, France, in 2012.

OK Google, Burger King Hijacked Your Speakers ... And Failed Pretty Quickly

2:04pm April 13, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The fast-food chain launched an ad Wednesday meant to wake viewers' Google Home speakers and use them for a makeshift promo. Sadly for Burger King, it wasn't long before the ploy hit some speed bumps.

How Can The Colorado River Continue To Support 36 Million People In 7 States?

1:35pm April 13, 2017

by Terry Gross

New Yorker staff writer David Owen says that convoluted legal agreements and a patchwork of infrastructure determine how water from the Colorado is allocated. His new book is Where The Water Goes.

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Thomas Demetrio, an attorney for David Dao, speaks at a news conference Thursday in Chicago. Dao was dragged from a United Express flight Sunday after he refused to give up his seat on the full flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., to make room for four

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United Passenger Suffered Concussion, Broken Nose, Lost Teeth, Lawyer Says

1:07pm April 13, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

David Dao, the 69-year-old doctor dragged off a United Express flight on Sunday night, is still recovering from his injuries, according to his attorney, who said there will "probably" be a lawsuit.

Associate Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam of the New York State Court of Appeals. Abdus-Salaam was found dead Wednesday at the age of 65.

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First African-American Female Judge On New York's Top Court Found Dead

12:31pm April 13, 2017

by Doreen McCallister

Associate Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River. She was the first African-American woman to be appointed to New York's Court of Appeals.