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Lynne Griffin pays her respects at a makeshift memorial outside the Capital Gazette offices, one day after a gunman killed five people in its newsroom. Griffin was a journalism student under John McNamara — one of the people killed Thursday. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Community

New details emerge about deadly shootings in Capital Gazette newsroom

The man charged with murdering five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday had previously been investigated over threatening comments toward staff members.

7 years ago

Staff of The Capital put out a newspaper on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people in its offices at the Capital Gazette. Here, Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, Md., holds a copy of Friday's paper. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
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Community

Capital Gazette keeps working, publishing, after 5 die in newsroom shooting

"Today we are speechless," the opinion page of The Capital's Friday edition reads.

7 years ago

Police officers talk to a man as they respond to a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday. (Greg Savoy/Reuters)
NPR
Community

Maryland newsroom shooting that left 5 dead was ‘targeted attack’

Acting Anne Arundel County Police Chief William Krampf confirmed an adult male suspect is in custody and being interrogated by law enforcement.

7 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, talk as they switch places at the podium during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Politics & Policy

The “civility” debate

Guests: Tom Scocca, Sarah Sobieraj Since the disrupted dining experiences of a few Trump administration officials ...

Air Date: June 27, 2018 10:00 am

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A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as an official searches her mother in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, earlier this month. For many, the image has become indelibly associated with a Trump administration policy that for weeks separated migrant children from their parents — but the girl's father says she was not separated from her mother. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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Community

Crying toddler on widely shared ‘Time’ cover was not separated from mother

Nevertheless, Time's editor-in-chief said he stands by the decision to use the image on the magazine's cover.

7 years ago

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Community

The end of net neutrality: Will users notice their missing internet freedom?

The rules protecting internet freedom disappeared June 11.

7 years ago

Newseum visitors browse newspaper front pages displayed outside the museum in Washington, Monday, June 11, 2018.
Community

Poll: Americans want more of what journalists want to report

There's substantial agreement on what Americans want from the news media and what journalists want to report

7 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

When Trump speaks: A conversation with Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Guest: Kathleen Hall Jamieson Middle-of-the-night tweets with errant capitalization and grammar, vitriolic insult ...

Air Date: June 7, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Bassem Youssef: from surgeon to political satirist

Guest: Bassem Youssef BASSEM YOUSSEF, du ...

Air Date: June 6, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Paul Smith says he wanted
NPR
Politics & Policy

Inspired by Russia, he bought influence on Facebook

On Tuesday, California holds its congressional primaries and in one largely rural district, there is a new kind of money entering politics: payments to Facebook.

7 years ago

Loveis Wise is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her illustration,
Arts & Entertainment

Talk of the town: Right after graduation, Philly artist lands New Yorker cover

Just weeks after graduating from UArts, Loveis Wise lands the cover of the New Yorker magazine.

7 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Money

Comcast v. Disney: A fight for Twenty-First Century Fox

Comcast said Wednesday that it's in the "advanced stages" of making an offer.

7 years ago

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump and his aides cannot block critics on Twitter. (Evan Vucci/AP)
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Courts & Law

Trump can’t block critics from his Twitter account, judge says

The White House did not give any indication whether the administration will appeal the decision.

7 years ago

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

EPA blocks some media from water contamination summit, then reverses course

The EPA reversed course Tuesday and allowed a reporter for The Associated Press to cover a meeting on water contaminants after she was earlier barred.

7 years ago

(Fahmida Azim for NPR)
NPR
Education

As ’13 Reasons Why’ returns, schools try to help students who are thinking of suicide

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers. And experts argue it's more than just an individual mental health issue. It's a public health issue.

7 years ago

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