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An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid
gas factory as she searches for her husband in Basra, Iraq, May 2003.

Guest: Lynsey Addario LYNSEY ADDARIO has spent two ...

Air Date: October 30, 2018 10:00 am

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A helicopter view of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md., in 2016.
(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Russia investigations: The U.S. launches a digital offensive — gently

This week in the Russia investigations: America's cyber-troops may be fighting back against Russia's influence brokers. Will it be enough?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to U.S. National security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at left. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Putin says Russia will target nations hosting U.S. missiles

"I would like to repeat that it's not our choice," Putin said. "We don't want it."

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The Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear received a national honor for its service. (Zoe Read/WHYY)

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Delaware veterans ceremony receives national honor

The cemetery is one of only four state and tribal cemeteries out of 111 in the U.S. to receive this year’s Operational Excellence Award.

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National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. After their meeting, Bolton told reporters the U.S. still intends to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. (Maxim Shipenkov/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bolton affirms U.S. intent to pull out of arms treaty with Russia

Bolton confirmed the plan to end the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, better known as the INF Treaty.

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This November 2017 photo provided by Badamsereejid Gansukh shows him in front of a U.S. military recruiting office in New York's Times Square. Gansukh, whose recruiter told him his Turkish language skills would be an asset to the military, said he didn’t know he was discharged at all until he asked his congressman’s office in the summer of 2018 to help him figure out why his security screening was taking so long. (Courtesy of Badamsereejid Gansukh via AP)

Politics & Policy

Army expelled 500 immigrant recruits in 1 year

The AP has interviewed more than a dozen recruits from Brazil, Pakistan, Iran, China and Mongolia who all said they were devastated by their unexpected discharge.

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Some of the highest levels of PFAS contamination have been found on military bases like Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, because the chemicals have been used for years in firefighting foam, and persist in groundwater. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)

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Study: PFAS levels at N.J. base 24,000 times higher than proposed fed standard

Water sources at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst contained levels of toxic PFAS chemicals that were up to 24,000 times hi ...

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The R. P. Resor was torpedoed on Feb 28, 1942 off the coast of northern New Jersey, with a full load of crude oil. (Photo courtesy of Joseph Bilby)

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The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast

Imagine yourself on a beach in Sea Isle City in the winter of 1942. It’s night, and a cold, steady breeze off the A ...

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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Guest: Hampton Sides General Douglas MacArthur was certain that the Chinese would not step into the Korean War in ...

Air Date: October 3, 2018 10:00 am

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On the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France, a U.S .Army 37-mm gun crew man their position. (AP file photo)

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World War I battle devastated U.S. forces, broke hearts at home

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

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The U.S. is sanctioning China's military for buying equipment from Russia that included fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) is show with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Russia earlier this month. (Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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China fires back against U.S. sanctions for purchases of Russian weapons

China and Russia's increasing military and economic ties come as a trade war escalates between China and the U.S.

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The leader of a fictional movement to repopulate Poland with Jews delivers a speech in an installation view of

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Artist takes her work out of the museum, onto Philly streets

The complex films of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art wrap multicultural messaging with nationalist propaganda.

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An original 1779 minute book of Pennsylvania’s unicameral Revolutionary General Assembly has returned to Pennsylvania for safekeeping in the Pennsylvania State Archives. (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)

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Long-lost Revolutionary War-era book returns to Pennsylvania

Historians are always a bit skeptical about items supposedly from the 1770s because of all the reproductions out there, but this volume proved to be the real deal.

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