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Somali Immigrants Have Abandoned Kansas Town After Bomb Plot

8:46pm March 19, 2018

by Frank Morris

Three militia members go on trial Tuesday for plotting to bomb Somali immigrants working in the Kansas Meatpacking Triangle, a constellation of minority-majority, hardscrabble pioneer towns, that depend on foreign labor. Somali immigrants have all but abandoned one town, despite civic and police efforts to reassure them that they're safe there. Some residents want them to return.

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President Trump Unveils Plan To Fight Opioid Crisis

8:46pm March 19, 2018

by Ryan Lucas

An estimated 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2016 — the vast majority of those were from heroin or synthetic opioids. New Hampshire is one of the states hardest hit by the epidemic and on Monday President Trump unveiled his plan to fight the crisis.

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Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference last year.

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NRA Signals Openness to Gun Removal Laws — With Conditions

8:26pm March 19, 2018

by Martin Kaste

In a new video, the NRA says it supports state laws that allow temporary removal of guns from people deemed to be a threat. But gun control groups are skeptical: "The devil is in the details."

A self-driving Uber moves through an intersection in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Dec. 1, 2017. Uber on Monday suspended its self-driving tests in four cities after a pedestrian was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, Ariz.

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Uber Suspends Self-Driving Tests After Pedestrian Is Killed In Arizona

8:14pm March 19, 2018

by Ian Wren

A self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian walking her bicycle in Tempe, Ariz. The incident could be the first pedestrian death involving a self-driving vehicle.

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How A Teenager's Actions Changed Punishments For Violent Juvenile Offenders

5:35pm March 19, 2018

by Kaari Pitkin

Forty years ago this month a 15-year-old boy in New York went on a crime spree that shocked the city and helped change the nature of sentencing minors in America.

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Pa. Attorney General Probing How Data-Mining Firm Acquired Facebook Data

5:35pm March 19, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro about his office's intent to look into how the data of 50 million Facebook users got into the hands of the political data-mining firm, Cambridge Analytica.

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Austin Authorities Say They're Investigating 'Serial Bomber' After Fourth Explosion

5:14pm March 19, 2018

by Claire McInerny

Over the weekend there was a fourth bombing in Austin, Texas. Authorities say this latest incident was caused by tripwire and showed a "different level of skill."

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Mounting research suggests that African-American and Latino children with autism are diagnosed late because of bias on the part of health care providers or a lack of information among patient families.

Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism

4:42pm March 19, 2018

by Casey Rentz

Research suggests that African-American and Latino children with autism are diagnosed later in life because of healthcare provider bias and families' lack of access to care, among other reasons.

Austin Police Chief Brian Manley (from left), ATF Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs at a news conference on Monday in Austin, Texas. They said a bomb that exploded Sunday night appeared to have used

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Investigators Say Austin 'Serial Bomber' May Have Used Tripwire In Latest Blast

4:41pm March 19, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

"With this tripwire, this changes things," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs. "It's more sophisticated. It's not targeted to individuals. We're very concerned."

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Facebook Admits Data-Mining Firm Got Access To Millions Of Users' Personal Information

4:40pm March 19, 2018

by Aarti Shahani

Facebook is under intense pressure after it admitted that Cambridge Analytica, a political data-mining firm, got access to massive amount of user data. A look at why Facebook allows third parties access to its data and what the business objective is.

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