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Report: Trump Administration Wants To 'Outsource Afghanistan To Mercenaries'

8:13am July 20, 2017

Steve Inskeep asks Mark Perry of The American Conservative about his article that says some in the Trump administration want to use more contractors in Afghanistan.

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Morning News Brief: Trump Blasts Sessions, DeVos Talks To Conservative Activists

8:13am July 20, 2017

In a new interview, President Trump criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Also, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces protesters in Colorado, and ICE agents say their work has recently changed.

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ICE 'Not Apologizing' For Aggressive Tactics

5:03am July 20, 2017

by John Burnett

Arrests of people who are in the U.S. illegally are way up in Texas — and immigrant rights groups don't like it. Immigration agents, however, say they're just enforcing the law.

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Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., heads into a closed-door committee meeting with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on June 15 in Washington, D.C.

Sen. John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer, Hospital Says

11:50pm July 19, 2017

by Dana Farrington

The Arizona Republican underwent surgery on July 14 to remove a blood clot. The Mayo Clinic says testing revealed that a tumor "known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot."

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Renee Hall has been hired as police chief in Dallas, after a stint as deputy chief in Detroit.

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Dallas Police Get First Female Chief, Making All Of Metro's Top Lawmen Women

11:30pm July 19, 2017

by Molly Evans

Renee Hall succeeds David Brown, who led the department through the aftermath of the ambush deaths of five officers last July. She leaves Detroit, where she has been deputy chief of police.

Arctic sea ice is seen from a NASA research aircraft on March 30, 2017, above Greenland. A top Interior Department scientist who tracks Arctic conditions says he was demoted by the Trump administration for speaking out on climate change.

Climate Scientist Says He Was Demoted For Speaking Out On Climate Change

11:13pm July 19, 2017

by Nathan Rott

Joel Clement, who was director of the Interior Department's Office of Policy Analysis during the Obama administration, says in a newspaper op-ed that he was reassigned to an "accounting office."

Trump: I'd Never Have Picked Sessions If I'd Known About Recusal On Russia

11:09pm July 19, 2017

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, President Trump voiced frustration with the attorney general's choice, and offered his thoughts on the investigation under Special Counsel Mueller.

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Hip-Hop Radio DJs Stretch And Bobbito Return To The Airwaves With NPR Podcast

11:09pm July 19, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to New York hip-hop radio DJs Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia about their upcoming NPR podcast called "What's Good with Stretch and Bobbito."

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Trump's Election Integrity Commission Holds First Meeting In Effort To Probe Voter Fraud

11:08pm July 19, 2017

by Pam Fessler

President Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity holds its first meeting Wednesday to uncover voter problems that undermine public confidence in U.S. elections. The panel has already faced criticism, especially from state election officials disturbed by the panel's request to send detailed voter registration data. The commission is looking for signs of voter fraud, which most election officials and experts say is rare.

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Trump Urges Senators To Revive Republican Health Care Bill

11:08pm July 19, 2017

by Tamara Keith

President Trump urged GOP senators to keep trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act all at once. The push came a day after he seemed to favor repealing Obamacare without a replacement.

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