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People gather outside the Time Warner Center, in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. A police bomb squad was sent to CNN's offices in New York City and the newsroom was evacuated because of a suspicious package. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind

The provocateur-in-chief has spent the last three years stoking his cultists to commit political violence.

8 years ago

People gather on a corner near the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa., where a shooter opened fire Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, injuring multiple people. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

11 killed, 6 injured in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; FBI investigating as hate crime

A law enforcement official has identified the suspect in a shooting Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue as Robert Bowers.

8 years ago

An undated police mugshot of Cesar Sayoc, who was charged Friday with sending explosive devices to critics of President Trump. (Broward County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Who is Cesar Sayoc? Bomb suspect has criminal history, attacked Democrats online

Cesar Sayoc has a long criminal history, including a charge of making a bomb threat.

8 years ago

A car enters the United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
(Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Postal Inspectors see suspicious package cases drop in recent years

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service opened 19 cases related to suspicious items or substances in Fiscal Year 2017.

8 years ago

Families affected by pre-existing conditions attend a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pre-existing conditions shape election debate over health care

Republican U.S. Representative Scott Perry took to Facebook Live last Thursday to talk pre-existing conditions.

8 years ago

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen inaugurates a newly completed renovated section of the border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif. As a migrant caravan heads toward the U.S., Nielsen says her agency has asked for the military's help. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visits new border wall in California

The Trump administration's plan calls for the troops to be in place by Tuesday — one week before Election Day.

8 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden talks with 27th Congressional District Democratic candidate Nate McMurray after greeting workers and patrons in a restaurant, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, in Lancaster N.Y. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Biden on mail bombs: ‘This division, this hatred, this ugliness — it has to end’

Biden quoting Yeats, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

8 years ago

This Nov. 1, 2017, photo shows a van with windows covered with an assortment of stickers in Well, Fla. Federal authorities took Cesar Sayoc into custody on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, and confiscated his van, which appears to be the same one, at an auto parts store in Plantation, Fla., in connection with the mail-bomb scare that has targeted prominent Democrats from coast to coast. (Courtesy of Lesley Abravanel via AP)
Courts & Law

Florida man charged after weeklong bomb-package scare

Law enforcement officials identified the man as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida.

8 years ago

This photo shows a detail of a Dec. 28, 1774 Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser at the Goodwill Industries in Bellmawr, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. A quick eye by Goodwill workers in southern New Jersey turned up the original 1774 Philadelphia newspaper with an iconic
Community

Goodwill workers in N.J. find original 1774 ‘rebel’ newspaper

There are three other existing copies of the same weekly edition of the Pennsylvania Journal, all housed in university collections.

8 years ago

Trader Michael Capolino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Strong results from major companies including Microsoft, Visa and Comcast are sending U.S. stocks higher Thursday morning as the market found its footing after three weeks of steep declines. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
Money

After long losing streak, U.S. stocks surge on solid earnings

Strong results from major companies including Microsoft, Visa and Comcast are sending U.S. stocks sharply higher Thursday.

8 years ago

Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

EPA head says rollbacks will keep environment clean, economy up

Wheeler: Fed action not needed to lower CO2

8 years ago

Among at least some rural Americans, pragmatism may now be superseding traditional disdain for government and the prizing of rugged individualism. (Angela Hsieh/NPR)
NPR
Health

Rural Americans are OK with ‘outside’ help to beat opioid crisis and boost economy

Rural Americans willing to allow people from outside their communities to help with the opioid epidemic.

8 years ago

Members of the Rise Above Movement (Screenshot via YouTube Lucas Waldron/ProPublica)
Courts & Law
ProPublica

4 members of violent white supremacist group face riot charges, federal authorities say

The charges are against members of the Rise Above Movement.

8 years ago

New York City Police Dept. officers arrive outside the Time Warner Center, in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. A police bomb squad was sent to CNN's offices in New York City and the newsroom was evacuated because of a suspicious package. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
Community

Crude pipe bombs sent to Obama, Clintons, CNN; no injuries

All the confirmed bombs appeared to come from the same person or persons.

8 years ago

Thousands of Honduran migrants and families walk towards the southern Mexico border from Guatemala. Many say they are headed to the U.S. The White House said on Tuesday that a record number of migrant families have arrived at the Southwest border over the last year. (Oliver de Roos/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. apprehended record number of migrant families at southwest border

More than 161,000 migrant family members were apprehended or found inadmissible at the Southwest border in FY 2018, which ended last month.

8 years ago

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