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Lawyers Band Together To Fight Gun Violence

6:24pm October 18, 2014

A new group called Prosecutors Against Gun Violence has formed to find solutions to gun violence in the U.S. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with attorneys and co-chairs Cyrus Vance Jr. and Mike Feuer.

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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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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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Politics & Government

A Candidate With Low Poll Numbers, But High Hopes

3:46pm October 18, 2014

by Scott Simon

Dr. Doug Butzier was the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate in Iowa when he died in a small plane crash this week. NPR's Scott Simon thinks on the hopes even "lost cause" candidates inspire.

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A rendering for the planned 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., Pitches New Bridge Park As A 'Model For Social Equity'

1:39pm October 18, 2014

by Franklyn Cater

The park, built on piers left over from an obsolete, demolished bridge, would connect two disparate parts of the city in hopes of sparking new life and knitting two communities.

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?

Michael Dunn talks with a member of his defense team during the first break in his retrial at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla., in September.

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Florida 'Loud Music' Shooter Michael Dunn Gets Life In Prison

2:14pm October 17, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Dunn was convicted earlier this month in a second trial for the fatal shooting of black teenager Jordan Davis in 2012.

One rationale for extending Medicaid coverage to more people is to help them get to a doctor or clinic before a minor illness becomes a medical emergency.

Spike In ER, Hospital Use Short-Lived After Calif. Medicaid Expansion

2:02pm October 17, 2014

by Lisa Aliferis

Previous research found that going on Medicaid increased a poor person's use of costly emergency room visits. Now an analysis suggests that initial spike in ER visits quickly tapers off.