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International

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Thursday. (Alexei Nikolsky/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Putin says Russia has new nuclear weapons that can’t be intercepted

Those weapons include cruise missiles, nuclear-powered underwater drones, and a new hypersonic missile that travels five times the speed of sound.

8 years ago

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani shakes hands with a foreign delegate at the Kabul Process conference in the country's capital Wednesday. During the conference, Ghani called on the Taliban to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Afghan president urges Taliban to talk peace, offering political recognition

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani opened an international conference Wednesday in Kabul with a substantial overture to his government's longtime antagonist.

8 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended himself and the Justice Department on Wednesday after more criticism from President Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Fact check: Sessions vows to probe FISA abuse, but Trump’s patience appears thin

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to defend President Trump in the Russia imbroglio, but Trump has slapped Sessions down — again — for work he says isn't good enough.

8 years ago


The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. (Tadhgh Rainey)
NPR
Science

Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep

Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.

8 years ago

Adm. Michael Rogers, chief of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

NSA Chief: U.S. response ‘hasn’t changed the calculus’ of Russian interference

According to Rogers, President Trump has not ordered him to go after the Russian attacks at their origin.

8 years ago

A Gobee bike sits near other bikeshare rental options in Paris on Nov. 18, 2017. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Urban Planning

Bike-share firm hits the brakes in France after ‘mass destruction’ of dockless bikes

France's first dockless bike-sharing program, which launched in October, has shut down operations across the country, citing "the mass destruction" of its fleet.

8 years ago

Hulking grey mirrored tower against a grey sky
Money

Challenge to Murdoch: Comcast also bids for Sky

Comcast's CEO, Brian Roberts, said his company would use Sky as a platform to grow in Europe.

8 years ago

Chevrolet Camaros are lined up at General Motors' Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan, in 2015. Automakers in the U.S. say if costs go up as a result of a renegotiated NAFTA, they would be less competitive.
NPR
Money

Automakers say Trump’s anti-NAFTA push could upend their industry

NAFTA touches almost every business sector — few more than the car industry.

8 years ago

Riders take a lap through Philadelphia during the 2012 professional cycling race. (Bas Slabbers/for WHYY, file)
Community

Is it the end of the road for the Manayunk bike race?

For the second straight year, there will be no professional cycling race in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Entrance to Camps 5 and 6, Naval Station Guantánamo Bay. (Photo reviewed and cleared by U.S. military.) (David Welna/NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

On a tense press tour of Guantánamo’s prison complex, signs of expansion

Two days before I left Washington in early February for my first tour inside Guantánamo's prison complex, an email arrived.

8 years ago

White Helmet Khaled Omar Harrah was killed during an airstrike in 2016. He's part of a group of volunteer rescue workers featured in the documentary Last Men in Aleppo (available on Netflix). (Courtesy of Grasshopper Film)
NPR
Community

Director of Oscar-nominated Aleppo doc wants his film to serve as witness

The documentary Last Men In Aleppo, by Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad, takes viewers inside the city.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Syria’s continuing crisis

Guests: Liz Sly, Mona Yacoubian, Andrew Tabler Although ISIS has been largely defeated in Syria, the seven ...

Air Date: February 23, 2018

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at an event at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 2, 2018. (Jose Luis Mag/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

As Washington gears up to tackle foreign influence, how effective can it be?

Sessions announced a "Cyber-Digital Task Force" within the DOJ to combat the "malicious use of technology," which he said "poses an unprecedented threat against our nation."

8 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with then-President Barack Obama in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 5, 2016. Obama's warnings about active measures went unheeded.
(Alexei Druzhinin/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Fact Check: Why didn’t Obama stop Russia’s election interference in 2016?

This story is complex and goes beyond a simple "True" or "False" grade.

8 years ago

In this file photo taken on April 19, 2015, a women enters the four-story building known as the
NPR
Courts & Law

The Russia Investigations: Mueller indicts the ‘Internet Research Agency’

Much of what Mueller's office charges was already public. But the 37-page indictment also includes a number of fascinating new insights.

8 years ago

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