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Airbnb, the online home-rental service, says it will start collecting hotel taxes in a few American cities.

Airbnb To Start Charging Hotel Taxes In A Handful Of Cities

7:13pm April 18, 2014

by Ben Trefny

Airbnb and other rental websites have made billions marketing existing housing to tourists, without hotel tax. Soon, Airbnb will start collecting tax in New York City, San Francisco and Portland, Ore.

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Budget Cuts Threaten Mock Villages At Military Training Center

11:10am April 18, 2014

David Greene talks to Weekend All Things Considered host Arun Rath about his trip to Fort Irwin National Training Center located in the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

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Wal-Mart To Offer Money-Transfer Service

11:10am April 18, 2014

The giant retailer will go head to head with Western Union and Moneygram in a market worth about $900 billion. But Wal-Mart says it will offer lower fees.

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While many women continue to work with little change in their duties while pregnant, others find that pregnancy can be a career liability.

When Being Pregnant Also Means Being Out Of A Job

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Yuki Noguchi

Thirty-six years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, employers still have very different interpretations of what they're required to do to accommodate expectant mothers.

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The Serpent Mound in southern Ohio is 3 feet high and more than 1,300 feet long.

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The Ohio Snake Art That's Been Mid-Slither For A Millennium

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Noah Adams

In another installment of the Spring Break series, Noah Adams visits the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio. It's not a burial site; it's a massive, grass-covered snake effigy, created a millennium ago.

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Probe: Gains Of Integration Eroded, Especially In The South

7:41am April 17, 2014

In 1954, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation. David Greene talks to ProPublica's Nikole Hannah-Jones about her story in The Atlantic. She examines the failure of school desegregation.

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Entering Talks In Geneva, U.S. Hopes For A Ukraine Breakthrough

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Jackie Northam

Secretary of State John Kerry is set to meet Thursday with officials from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union. They will discuss the crisis in Ukraine. While the Obama administration has said it has overwhelming evidence that Moscow is stirring up the unrest in eastern Ukraine, it says it wants to wait before expanding sanctions. Analysts say Washington has few other options.

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Legal Moves Might Mean Fiscal Relief, And More PR Troubles, For GM

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Tracy Samilton

General Motors is signaling its plans to ask a bankruptcy judge for protection from lawsuits related to a defective switch recall. This could further complicate its current public relations crisis.

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Justice's 'Peacemaker' Unit Focuses On Transgender Rights

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Carrie Johnson

A unit originally created to keep the peace during the civil rights movement is training law enforcement on how to be more sensitive to transgender witnesses and crime victims.

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NYPD To Disband Controversial Unit That Spied On Muslims

4:33pm April 16, 2014

The Demographics Unit was trying to root out terrorist threats, but never produced a usable lead. Kelly McEvers talks to journalist Matt Apuzzo, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the unit.

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