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10-Year-Old Girl Is Detained By Border Patrol After Emergency Surgery

8:34pm October 26, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Rosa Maria Hernandez, who came illegally to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 3 months old, was being transferred between hospitals in Texas when the ambulance was stopped by federal officers.

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Pharmaceutical Founder Arrested In Alleged Nationwide Opioid Scheme

7:01pm October 26, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

John Kapoor, who co-founded Insys Therapeutics, has been charged with racketeering and fraud for allegedly bribing doctors to overprescribe the company's powerful opioid spray.

A guard escorts an immigrant detainee at an ICE detention center in Adelanto, Calif., in 2013. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may create new detention facilities around the country to hold record numbers of detainees.

As It Makes More Arrests, ICE Looks For More Detention Centers

6:46pm October 26, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Recent postings by the agency show its interest in sites near Chicago, Detroit, San Antonio, Salt Lake City and St. Paul, Minn., that could accommodate thousands of detainees.

A man checks out an anti-overdose kit he was given at a clinic. With America confronting an opioid epidemic, Walgreens says it will stock naloxone spray at all of its pharmacies.

Narcan Opioid Overdose Spray Is Now Stocked By All Walgreens Pharmacies

5:43pm October 26, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Letting people get the medicine "without an individual prescription in 45 states is critical in combating this crisis," says the CEO of Narcan maker Adapt Pharma.

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Report Says Ongoing Power Outage In Puerto Rico Is Worst Electricity Failure In U.S. History

4:43pm October 26, 2017

by Jason Beaubien

Most of Puerto Rico remains without power more than a month after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. Getting the electricity back on is now dominating politics on the island and leading to allegations of mismanagement in the allocation of reconstruction contracts.

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Harvey's Debris Remains On Texas Sidewalks As Cities Face Shortage Of Trucks

4:43pm October 26, 2017

by Robert Siegel

Nearly two months after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, a shortage of debris removal trucks is slowing down the recovery effort for some cities along the coast. Many trucks have been lured to Florida by higher rates, leaving Texas cities to fend for themselves. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with officials in Groves, Texas about how they're improvising.

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For StoryCorps' David Isay, An Email Was Just 'One Small Step' Toward His Next Project

4:43pm October 26, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to StoryCorps creator David Isay about One Small Step, a new project which brings strangers with opposing ideologies together to talk with and listen to each other with the help of a facilitator.

What Happened To The Move To Ban Bump Stocks?

4:43pm October 26, 2017

by Geoff Bennett

After the Las Vegas massacre, lawmakers launched an effort to regulate bump stocks, devices which allow semi-automatic weapons to shoot like machine guns. Now, that effort appears to have stalled.

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A Look At Workplace Policies Meant To Prevent Sexual Harassment

4:43pm October 26, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to attorney Amy Oppenheimer about what kinds of policies can prevent sexual harassment in the workplace — and whether the ones already implemented have done any good.

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Twitter Says It Will Ban Ads From Russian News Agencies After Interference In 2016 Election

4:43pm October 26, 2017

by David Folkenflik

Twitter has said it will ban all ads from Russian news agencies effective immediately. The company made the decision as a result of role these agencies had in interfering with the 2016 election.