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Iowa Town Residents Angry With U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers After Devastating Floods

6:19pm March 22, 2019

by Frank Morris

Hamburg, Iowa, got through the last big flood on the Missouri River years ago by adding to the top of the levy. But federal officials ordered it removed and the town flooded last week.

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LGBTQ, immigrant rights and criminal justice reform groups, launched a coalition, Decrim NY, in February to decriminalize the sex trade in New York.

Should Sex Work Be Decriminalized? Some Activists Say It's Time

5:29pm March 22, 2019

by Jasmine Garsd

Opponents of decriminalization say the multi-billion-dollar industry exploits sex workers. But activists and academics say legalization would protect workers and benefit public health.

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What Makes People Heed A Weather Warning — Or Not?

5:17pm March 22, 2019

by Rebecca Ellis

One social scientist says it's how people interpret these warnings that matters and that "we need to get out there and do a better job of understanding their perspective."

President Trump speaks before signing an executive order Thursday requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants.

Trump And Universities In Fight Over Free Speech, Federal Research Funding

4:33pm March 22, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The president signed an executive order on Thursday conditioning research grants on "compliance with the First Amendment."

President Trump speaks at Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, on Wednesday. His speech included a five-minute attack on the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

Among False Claims, Trump Attacked McCain For Failing Veterans

2:30pm March 22, 2019

by Quil Lawrence

President Trump's attack on the late Sen. John McCain included an inaccurate claim about McCain's role in reforming the VA. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., called Trump's remarks "deplorable."

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Episode #1913

2:12pm March 22, 2019

The underground Venezuelan hair market, an interview with Cherríe Moraga, and a new "How I Made It" featuring Danny Ocean.

One of the Trump administration's proposals would change the prices Medicare pays for certain prescription drugs by factoring in the average prices Europeans pay for the same medicines.

It Will Take More Than Transparency To Reduce Drug Prices, Economists Say

1:59pm March 22, 2019

by Alison Kodjak

The Trump administration wants to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing. But health economists say the administration's call to tie prices to what other nations pay might work better.

Chief Justice John Roberts attends the 37th Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 7, 2014, in Washington, DC.

In 'The Chief,' An Enigmatic, Conservative John Roberts Walks A Political Tightrope

11:54am March 22, 2019

by Nina Totenberg

Reporter Joan Biskupic portrays the chief justice as a dedicated conservative who now "has the court he's always wanted" — and she says the law "will likely be what he says it is."

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology says suggestions that a medical abortion can be reversed after more than an hour has passed aren't supported by scientific evidence.

Controversial 'Abortion Reversal' Regimen Is Put To The Test

10:55am March 22, 2019

by Mara Gordon

Several states require doctors who perform medical abortions to tell their patients the procedure can be "reversed" with progesterone. There's an absence of evidence to support that contention.

A family photo of Bettye, Miriam and Edwin Pratt together in 1966.

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Her Dad Was A Slain Civil Rights Leader. She Remembers His Assassination

10:07am March 22, 2019

Edwin Pratt, the then-head of the Seattle Urban League, was assassinated in 1969 at his home. At StoryCorps, his daughter and her godmother remember him and the night he was shot.

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