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Planes sit on the tarmac at Cairo's airport Thursday after an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared over the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.

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Egyptian Military Says EgyptAir Flight 804 Debris Found Off Coast

11:42am May 20, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Authorities had reported finding wreckage from the plane Thursday but later retracted those claims. The debris found Friday is said to include passenger belongings but not flight data recorders.

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Egyptian Officials Cite Possible Terrorism In EgyptAir Crash Investigation

10:11am May 20, 2016

by David Schaper

Investigators caution it is too soon to jump to conclusions about what brought down an EgyptAir flight over the Mediterranean Wednesday night. But there are early indications terrorism played a role.

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Could A Lighthouse Have Prevented South China Sea's Latest Flashpoint?

10:01am May 20, 2016

by Michael Sullivan

After U.S. bases in the Philippines closed in the early '90s, a lighthouse on Scarborough Shoal was meant to help protect the country from regional aggression. But that project was never completed.

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Funeral Home Billboad Urges Motorists To Text And Drive

7:38am May 20, 2016

When irate motorists went to the Internet to check out the funeral home, they discovered it didn't exist. The billboard was a cleverly disguised PSA which warns against texting and driving.

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen smiles at the crowd on Friday during her inauguration in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Taiwan Inaugurates First Female President

7:29am May 20, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Tsai Ing-wen's party has previously pushed for formal independence from mainland China. But in her inauguration speech, she didn't mention the dispute over the "one-China" policy at all.

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Debris From EgyptAir Flight 804 Found In Mediterranean

7:21am May 20, 2016

France has sent warships, aircraft and aviation investigators to help find the cause of Thursday's crash of EgyptAir flight 804. The flight vanished from radar screens over the eastern Mediterranean.

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Russia Hires PR Firm Burson-Marsteller To Help Spin Doping Scandal

6:46am May 20, 2016

Russia's track and field program is banned from international competition because of a doping scandal. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Gene Grabowski, a former partner with Burson-Marsteller.

Aviation Expert Highlights Security Challenges In Aftermath Of EgyptAir Crash

11:32pm May 19, 2016

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Peter Goelz, a former National Transportation Safety Board investigator who worked with the Egyptian government in 1999 after an EgyptAir plane crashed into the Atlantic.

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Congress Agrees On Plan To Help Puerto Rico Restructure $70 Billion Debt

7:01pm May 19, 2016

by Greg Allen

After months of negotiation, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have agreed on a plan to help Puerto Rico deal with its crushing $70 billion debt. It sets up a control board to investigate the U.S. territory's murky financial picture and restructure its debt payments to creditors.

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right), hosts U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday. Sissi has touted his ability to bring order, but the country has looked increasingly shaky recently.

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Air Disaster Adds To Egypt's Litany Of Woes

6:26pm May 19, 2016

by Greg Myre

Egypt's government faces mounting criticism. There's an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula. The tourist industry is in tatters. And now, add to that a second aviation disaster in just over six months.