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Three student journalists on the protests rocking their campuses

5:38pm April 30, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with student journalists at Emory University, University of Notre Dame and the University of Texas at Dallas about covering the pro-Palestine protests on their campuses.

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After chronicling California at 'LA Times' for 43 years, Louis Sahagún has retired

4:56pm April 30, 2024

In his 43 years at the LA Times, Louis Sahagun reported on everything from the Latino communities of east LA, to the plight of the desert tortoise. And he got his start at the paper sweeping floors.

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'Washington Post' probes 2023 alleged assassination plot of Sikh separatist

5:16am April 29, 2024

A new report from The Washington Post provides the clearest link yet between India's government and a foiled assassination attempt targeting a Sikh activist in the U.S. in 2023.

How NPR decides the words we use to describe war

5:01pm April 26, 2024

by Tony Cavin

In newsrooms, there are constant debates over how journalists should use certain words. We're pulling back the curtain to provide some transparency on the words you hear — or don't hear — from NPR.

Jim Hoft, owner of the Gateway Pundit, at the White House in 2019. The website has been hit with defamation lawsuits related to 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories it is accused of spreading.

Gateway Pundit files for bankruptcy after election conspiracy defamation lawsuits

7:04pm April 24, 2024

by Huo Jingnan

The influential website faced multiple defamation suits over conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud that it's accused of promoting.

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, by Susan Page

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Barbara Walters forged a path for women in journalism, but not without paying a price

5:33pm April 24, 2024

by Tonya Mosley

Walters was the first woman to co-anchor a national news show on prime time television. "The path she cut is one that many of us have followed," says biographer Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker.

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Former President Donald Trump watches as prosecutor Joshua Steinglass questions David Pecker before Judge Juan Merchan during Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Politics & Government

Ex-National Enquirer publisher says he pledged to be Trump's 'eyes and ears'

5:11pm April 23, 2024

by Ximena Bustillo

David Pecker's testimony resumed this morning after a short time on the stand on Monday and lasted until mid-afternoon. The trial is set to pick back up on Thursday morning.

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Terry Anderson, who was the longest held American hostage in Lebanon, grins with his 6-year-old daughter Sulome, Dec. 4, 1991, as they leave the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, following Anderson's release.

World News

Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, dies at 76

6:52pm April 21, 2024

by The Associated Press

Snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985, reporter Terry Andersen chronicled his years of imprisonment in a 1993 best-selling book. He died at home in New York on Sunday.

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Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study

3:07pm April 19, 2024

by Hao Peng

A new study finds that in news stories about scientific research, U.S. media were less likely to mention a scientist if they had an East Asian or African name, as compared to one with an Anglo name.

Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'

2:27pm April 19, 2024

by Terry Gross

During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.

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