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GOP Members Of House Intel Panel Conclude There Was No Collusion With Russia

8:55pm March 12, 2018

by Ryan Lucas

The House intelligence committee's majority Republicans cleared Donald Trump's campaign on Monday of coordinating with Russia's attack on the 2016 election in a finding that minority Democrats are expected to dispute as premature.

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Lawyer Representing Stormy Daniels Discusses Case Surrounding Alleged Trump Affair

8:55pm March 12, 2018

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels — the adult film actress alleging to have had an affair with President Trump in 2006 — talks about the upcoming legal case. Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, is suing Trump to overturn a confidentiality agreement for which she was paid $130,000.

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President Trump's Proposed Gun Control Measures Remain Politically Cautious

8:55pm March 12, 2018

by Mara Liasson

In the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Florida, President Trump flirted with gun control measures opposed by the NRA. But in the end, his proposals are much more politically cautious.

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Trump's Tariff Decisions Could Help GOP In Pennsylvania Special Election

8:55pm March 12, 2018

by Scott Detrow

Voters in a western Pennsylvania congressional district head to the polls Tuesday. In this area, President Trump's tariff decisions could help the GOP avoid losing a reliably Republican seat.

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After Malfunction At California Fertility Clinic, It's Unclear If Eggs And Embryos Were Affected

8:55pm March 12, 2018

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Dr. Richard Paulson, past president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and director of USC Fertility, about a fertility clinic in San Francisco that may have had thousands of frozen eggs and embryos damaged after a problem with one of its storage tanks.

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Many American Workers Will Soon Be Able To Compare Their Salary To Company CEOs

8:55pm March 12, 2018

Starting this year, publicly traded firms will be required to share their median employee pay, as well as CEO pay. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Wall Street Journal reporter Theo Francis about the new disclosure rule.

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In a full-issue article on Australia that ran in National Geographic in 1916, aboriginal Australians were called "savages" who "rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings." The magazine examines its history of racist coverage in its April issue.

'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'

8:52pm March 12, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Before it could publish an issue on race, the magazine first had to look at its own history. "Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless," writes editor Susan Goldberg.

The Navy's new USS Little Rock arrives at the harbor in Buffalo, N.Y., last December. In imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said the U.S. military should be as self-sufficient as possible.

Trump Says Tariffs Are Needed To Protect Vital Industries, But Are They?

8:12pm March 12, 2018

by Jim Zarroli

The steel and aluminum tariffs are based on the idea that these homegrown industries are critical for national security purposes. But global supply chains make it tough for the U.S. to go it alone.

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A concrete marker with the North Korean and Chinese national flags has the words "China North Korea Border," at a crossing in the Chinese border town of Tumen in eastern China's Jilin province.

For China, One Of The Greatest Risks Of Trump-Kim Talks Is Being Sidelined

7:03pm March 12, 2018

by Bonnie S. Glaser

Beijing worries it will be marginalized from a potential U.S.-North Korea diplomatic process.

Military personnel wearing protective suits investigate the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, remain critically ill.

Nerve Agent Found In U.K. Is Rare And Definitely Russian

6:08pm March 12, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Novichok-class agents were developed in top-secret Russian labs at the end of the Cold War. Experts say only Russia is known to have made them. "They've been a deep, dark secret," says one expert.