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The Illinois State Corn Husking Competition is one of nine competitions happening during harvest season all across the Midwest.

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Once A Year, Farmers Go Back To Picking Corn By Hand — For Fun

3:46pm October 18, 2014

by Abby Wendle

Farmers across the Midwest harvest billions of bushels of corn nowadays using giant machines called combines. But a contest keeps a more primitive corn-picking technique alive: human hands.

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Dallas Hospital Deals With Aftermath Of Ebola Missteps

3:46pm October 18, 2014

by Wade Goodwyn

Authorities in Texas are working to limit travel by health workers who may have been exposed to Ebola. Meanwhile, the hospital at the center of the first cases in the U.S. is trying to move forward.

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James Foley Memorial Set In His New Hampshire Home Town

3:46pm October 18, 2014

A memorial for journalist James Foley will be held Saturday, on what would have been his 41st birthday. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rev. Marc Montminy, who is presiding over the service.

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Texas Can Enforce Voter ID Law For November Election

3:46pm October 18, 2014

The Supreme Court announced that Texas can use its controversial new voter ID law for the November election. NPR's Scott Simon gets the latest from Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg.

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Brooklyn DA Works To Overturn His 'Legacy Of Disgrace'

3:46pm October 18, 2014

Since Kenneth Thompson became district attorney, he's been investigating a number of old cases. As he tells NPR's Scott Simon, he recently asked a judge to throw out a 30-year-old murder conviction.

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Pritzker Travels Europe And Asia On Commercial Diplomacy Tour

3:46pm October 18, 2014

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker recently returned from Ukraine and Turkey, and she heads next to Japan and South Korea. NPR's Scott Simon talks to her about practicing commercial diplomacy.

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The Supreme Court early Saturday declined to block a Texas Voter ID law for the November election.

Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Voter ID Law For Nov. Election

2:50pm October 18, 2014

by Scott Neuman

With three justices dissenting, the high court's ruling effectively blocks a lower federal court decision declaring the law restrictive and unconstitutional.

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America's Boo-It-Yourself Halloween Spirit

2:39pm October 18, 2014

by Linton Weeks

You've heard of recycling and upcycling, now there's boocycling — making first-rate costumes from second-hand stuff.

Workers drill for oil in the Bakken shale formation outside Watford City, N.D., an area experiencing an oil boom.

Predictions Of 'Peak Oil' Production Prove Slippery

12:52pm October 18, 2014

by Marilyn Geewax

Just a few years ago, authors were predicting production would soon hit a peak and then decline. But since then, supplies have surged. So are the forecasters now slapping themselves in the head?

Senegalese fencer Abdoulaye Thiam (left) competed against Jason Rogers of the U.S. during the 2008 Olympics. Due to Ebola fears, a World Cup fencing event set for Senegal this month has been canceled.

Universities To Speakers Who've Visited West Africa: En Garde!

5:37am October 18, 2014

by Eleanor Klibanoff

Fears of Ebola — not always justified — have caused organizers in Africa and the United States to cancel or reschedule events they worry may lead to spread of the disease.