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What Energy Groups Think Is Wrong With The Clean Power Plan

6:52am October 11, 2017

The EPA plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to combat climate change. Steve Inskeep talks to lawyer Jeff Holmstead, who represents a group which has challenged the plan in court.

Fire Evacuees Want To Know What Happened To Their Homes

6:49am October 11, 2017

California's wildfires have moved quickly, but in some cases official information hasn't. Some people only learned their houses were destroyed from their neighbors or on the news.

Woman Pulled Over For A Fake DUI And A Marriage Proposal

6:43am October 11, 2017

An officer in Palmdale, Calif., had her walk in a straight line. Then instructed her to turn around. That's when she saw another officer on his knee, holding a ring. It was all a stunt. She said yes.

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More Women Accuse Harvey Weinstein Of Sexual Harassment

6:29am October 11, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

Allegations against Weinstein are emerging from all levels of the entertainment industry — including instances of sexual assault and a recording by the NYPD in which he admits to groping a woman.

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Politics & Government

News Brief: Trump's Tax Plan, California's Raging Wildfires

6:27am October 11, 2017

President Trump heads to Harrisburg, Pa., to talk to an audience that will include truckers about his tax overhaul. And, more than a dozen people have died in intense wildfires in Northern California.

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More Women Allege Misconduct By Harvey Weinstein, Including Sexual Assault

10:52pm October 10, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The New Yorker spoke with 13 women who said they were sexually harassed or assaulted by the film executive, who was fired on Sunday. Three women said Weinstein had raped them.

A firefighter monitors a house burning in Santa Rosa. Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through Northern California, sending residents on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames as homes burned.

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'Public Calamity' As California Wildfires Leave Apocalyptic Scenes In Wine Country

8:40pm October 10, 2017

by Bill Chappell

At least 15 people have died and 115,000 acres of land and property have been scorched by wildfires that have obliterated neighborhoods, shops and woodlands since Sunday.

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Rebecca Atienza and her father, Roberto, stand in a grove of decimated coffee trees. Hurricane winds stripped these trees nearly bare of leaves and beans.

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'This Was A Beautiful Place': Puerto Rico's Coffee Farms Devastated By Maria

8:27pm October 10, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Hacienda San Pedro had harvested just 2 percent of its beans before Hurricane Maria blasted through. The ripple effects will continue — it is expecting to run out of beans in December.

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Hollis Daniels III, 19, was charged with capital murder of a peace officer in the shooting of a campus officer at the Texas Tech police headquarters on Monday.

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Police Say Student Confesses To Fatal Shooting Of Texas Tech Cop

7:58pm October 10, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

It started as a police check on a student in his room — then it turned fatal, say university officials. Detectives say 19-year-old Hollis Daniels III told officers he had done "something illogical."

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Women Struggled For Years Before Speaking Out Against Harvey Weinstein

7:01pm October 10, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Ronan Farrow, a contributor to The New Yorker, about his story following a 10-month long investigation into sexual harassment claims against Harvey Weinstein.

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