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Vehicles drive past a Planned Parenthood office in Peoria, Ill., in December 2016.

Trump Signs Law Giving States Option To Deny Funding For Planned Parenthood

5:07pm April 13, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The legislation rolls back an Obama-era rule that prohibited states from withholding certain federal funds from organizations that provide legal abortions.

As Trump Continues Mar-A-Lago Trips, Watchdogs Want To Know Who's Joining Him

4:57pm April 13, 2017

by Greg Allen

Advocates want the administration to release a list of visitors to President Trump's Florida resort. A former Secret Service official says that information doesn't exist.

New Jersey's Self-Proclaimed Moderate Congressman Takes Heat From All Sides

4:57pm April 13, 2017

by Susan Davis

On the political spectrum of most conservative to most liberal congressional districts, New Jersey's 7th congressional district is the political median of America. Which is why its Republican Rep. Leonard Lance, a self-proclaimed moderate, is taking heat from all sides. NPR takes a look at how much interest his constituents have in centrist attitudes in the Trump era.

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Attorneys For United Airlines Passenger Speak Out On Incident

4:57pm April 13, 2017

by Susie An

Attorneys for Dr. David Dao are speaking out for the first time since Dao was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight on Sunday. Attorneys haven't filed a lawsuit yet, but say one is likely to come soon. Meanwhile, Chicago city officials are questioning the city's department of aviation about Sunday's incident.

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U.S. Courts Divided Over Anti-Discrimination Protections For LGBT Workers

4:57pm April 13, 2017

by Yuki Noguchi

Recently, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that existing civil rights law bars discrimination based on sexual orientation. But other appeals courts have ruled that existing federal law does not extend to sexual orientation. LGBT activists cheered the most recent decision, but it will likely wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Female Marines Join Fight Against Culture Of Sexism

4:57pm April 13, 2017

After seeing her photo with other female Marines get attacked on social media, Maj. Janine Garner joined about 100 other women to try to end sexism and misogyny in the Marine Corps.

The city of San Francisco has established the new Financial Justice Project to look for ways to make smaller fines, like parking tickets, more fair to poorer residents.

San Francisco Program Aims To Make Smaller Fines More Fair For Poor

4:57pm April 13, 2017

by Jeremy Dalmas

When fines like parking tickets stack up, it's difficult for some to pay their way out. So San Francisco created the Financial Justice Project to study the way fines affect the poor.

U.S. Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever Used In Combat

4:33pm April 13, 2017

by Tom Bowman

The U.S. on Thursday released one of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs ever built — the 22,000 pound Massive Ordnance Air Blast weapon — against ISIS fighters in eastern Afghanistan. It marked the first use of this weapon but was not expected to bring the end of the conflict any closer.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives James Baldwin Letters

4:33pm April 13, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, about receiving hundreds of James Baldwin's previously unreleased letters from his estate.

Comedian Charlie Murphy Of 'Chappelle's Show' Dies At 57

4:33pm April 13, 2017

Comedian and actor Charlie Murphy made a name for himself as a writer on Chappelle's Show, with his witty sketches of his encounters with famous people like Prince and Rick James. Murphy died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. He was 57.