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A U.S. Marine from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Alpha Company looks out as an evening storm gathers above an outpost near Kunjak, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.

A Retired Marine And A Photojournalist Confront War's 'Invisible Injuries'

6:46pm August 24, 2017

by Dave Davies

Marine Sgt. TJ Brennan suffered from memory loss after being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. Finbarr O'Reilly captured the event on film. Now the two men have written a memoir.

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Trump Administration Moves To Shrink National Monuments

6:33pm August 24, 2017

by Kirk Siegler

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says some National Monuments protecting federal public land designated during the Obama administration will be downsized, including a big reduction of Utah's Bears Ears.

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Trump Continues To Brush Aside Conflicts Of Interest

6:33pm August 24, 2017

by Peter Overby

President Trump and his White House seem to have settled into a routine of dismissing the ethics laws. So when he plugged his Charlottesville winery at a last week, the pitch hardly made headlines.

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Rabbis Boycott Trump After Charlottesville Remarks

6:33pm August 24, 2017

As a result of President Trump's controversial remarks on Charlottesville violence, four rabbinical coalitions will not hold the annual presidential conference call before next month's High Holidays.

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Cantwell remains in custody at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

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White Nationalist Christopher Cantwell Surrenders After Charlottesville Violence

5:50pm August 24, 2017

by Amy Held

"I think that a lot more people are going to die before we're done here, frankly," Cantwell said in a VICE News Tonight documentary about the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.

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Charlottesville Rally Videographer On Becoming 'Fake News'

5:28pm August 24, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Brennan Gilmore, who recorded the car plowing into protesters. He's since become the focus of conspiracy theorists and the target of death threats from neo-Nazis.

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Simply going up in pitch at the end of a sentence can transform a statement into a question.

Really? Really. How Our Brains Figure Out What Words Mean Based On How They're Said

5:28pm August 24, 2017

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists have identified the brain cells that detect pitch changes in speech, allowing us to understand whether someone is asking a question or making a statement.

Texas Coast Prepares For Strengthened Hurricane Harvey

5:06pm August 24, 2017

by Laura Isensee

The National Hurricane Center now says Harvey will be a major hurricane when it arrives in Texas late Friday. The overnight escalation surprised planners who were told it would be a tropical storm.

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