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Latest On Pittsburgh Deadly Synagogue Mass Shooting

1:25pm October 28, 2018

by Kathleen Davis

Eleven people were killed and six were injured after a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The attack is being investigated as a hate crime.

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Officials are treating Robert Bowers' attack on the Tree of Life Congregation as a hate crime.

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims Identified

1:01pm October 28, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

Victims range in age from 54 to 97. Robert Bowers , 46, has been charged with 29 separate federal crimes for his attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.

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Pittsburgh Officials Speak On Saturday's Synagogue Shooting

9:19am October 28, 2018

Pittsburgh officials are giving a news conference with the latest on the victims of Saturday's shooting.

A group of Gettysburg, Penn., residents have been meeting up in a historic church to practice what others preach: bringing people of different political views together.

Politics, Facts And Civility: A Lesson In Engaging In Discourse

8:21am October 28, 2018

by Michel Martin

Politics, Facts and Civilty is a group of people, consisting of both Republicans and Democrats, that occasionally get together to have a civil conversation about political issues.

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Pittsburgh Shooting Update

8:17am October 28, 2018

by Quil Lawrence

Eleven people were killed and at least six injured when a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The suspect had reportedly made anti-Semitic comments online.

Rhetoric In Media And Politics

8:17am October 28, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses civil rhetoric with Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse and Ariela Schachter of Washington University in St. Louis.

The Call-In: Civil Discourse

8:17am October 28, 2018

In our call-in segment, we hear from listeners about where they go in their community for civil conversations with people of different political stripes.

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What We Know About The Pittsburgh Shooting

8:17am October 28, 2018

by Sarah McCammon

Eleven people were killed and at least six injured when a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Synagogue's Former Rabbi On Pittsburgh's Jewish Community

8:17am October 28, 2018

The mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh has left the Jewish community reeling. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Rabbi Chuck Diamond about the impact.

People wait in line to vote at a polling place on the first day of early voting on Oct. 22 in Houston. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been aggressively prosecuting people for voting violations, which critics argue is designed to intimidate non-whit

Ahead Of The 2018 Election, Texas AG Ramps Up Voter Fraud Prosecutions

7:00am October 28, 2018

by Ashley Lopez

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charging a record number of people with so-called "voter fraud" in the state, which is something voting experts say is extremely rare.