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What Can We Learn About The Effects Of Social Media Ads?

6:06pm October 01, 2017

Amid news that Russian operatives may have bought ads to fuel social and racial unrest, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Scott Tranter, a director of analytics for a data and technology firm.

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Mary Abagi on her farm. She used the payout from her merry-go-round savings club to buy a goat.

How To Buy A Goat When You're Really Poor? Join A 'Merry-Go-Round'

6:06pm October 01, 2017

by Nurith Aizenman

Skeptics say if you hand cash to the impoverished, they'll mismanage it. But it turns out, many poor people are great at saving — thanks to this ingenious system.

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Police officers work outside Marseille's main train station Sunday after a man launched a knife attack, killing two people, before being shot dead.

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2 Killed In Knife Attack At French Train Station

2:52pm October 01, 2017

by Amy Held

Soldiers shot dead the assailant after he killed two "young women" at Marseille's Saint Charles train station, officials say.

A Spanish riot police officer swings a club against would-be voters near a school assigned to be a polling station by the Catalan government in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday.

'Illegal' Independence Referendum Turns Violent As Police And Pro-Separatists Clash

1:25pm October 01, 2017

by Amy Held

"Horrible scenes," NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Barcelona. "Police dragging voters out of polling stations, some by the hair."

A relaxed moment for a child in the Khoisan hunter-gatherer society.

Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?

12:22pm October 01, 2017

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Anthropologist James Suzman has lived with one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers. And it's made him rethink his perspective on the Western lifestyle.

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Possible Terrorism In Canada As Officer Stabbed And Pedestrians Struck

10:55am October 01, 2017

by Amy Held

A vehicle containing an ISIS flag hit the officer before the driver jumped out and stabbed him, police said. Hours later, in a possibly related incident, a U-Haul hit pedestrians.

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Using Social Media To Get Help To Where It's Needed

8:09am October 01, 2017

by James Fredrick

Last month's earthquake in Mexico destroyed many buildings and killed hundreds of people. But out of the chaos a hashtag was born that connected those offering help with those who needed it the most.

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Spain Sends Riot Police To Stop Catalan Referendum

8:09am October 01, 2017

by Lauren Frayer

Spain has called Sunday's independence referendum in its Catalan region unconstitutional. Thousands of police have been mobilized to try to prevent it from taking place.

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The Fight For Raqqa

8:09am October 01, 2017

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Quentin Sommerville of the BBC about his reporting from Raqqa, Syria. Western-backed forces are taking over the former ISIS stronghold, but the city is largely in ruins.

Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina Recounts Time In Prison In 'Riot Days'

8:09am October 01, 2017

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Masha Alyokhina, a member of the band Pussy Riot, who was sentenced to two years in prison after playing a protest song in a Moscow cathedral in 2012.