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Gina Haspel is sworn in to testify at her confirmation hearing before the Senate intelligence committee in Washington on May 9. The full Senate on Thursday confirmed Haspel as CIA director, making her the first woman to hold the job. (Alex Brandon/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Senate confirms Gina Haspel as CIA Director

Haspel, 61, is widely respected in the intelligence community.

7 years ago

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., speaks at a news conference calling for the passage of the Dream Act in January, along with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Lujan Grisham is one of five Democratic lawmakers, along with nine Republicans, receiving praise over immigration, in the form of paid ads, by the Koch network. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

Breaking with Trump’s GOP, Koch brothers praise democrats on immigration

The Koch brothers are going rogue.

7 years ago

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, arrives for his testimony Wednesday before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
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Politics & Policy

EPA’s Scott Pruitt, subject of many ethics probes, plays defense before Senate

The Environmental Protection Agency administrator fielded reproaches from both sides of the aisle during testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.

7 years ago

Christopher Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica employee, prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (Stringer/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica aimed to trigger paranoia, racial biases

"Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental and emotional characteristics in certain subsets of the American population and worked to exploit them."

7 years ago

The Senate Judiciary Committee released thousands of documents Wednesday related to its investigation about a Trump Tower meeting in 2016 between top Trump aides and a delegation of Russians who promised to help their campaign. (The Edge Digital Photography/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

Senate Committee releases 2,500 pages about 2016 Trump Tower meeting

The June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower is one of several known contacts between Trump campaign workers and people connected with the Russian government.

7 years ago

The Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Money

Sports betting likely to give Atlantic City’s casinos a revenue boost

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing all states to have legalized sports betting could help Atlantic City casinos generate additional revenue.

7 years ago

 The former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove and present day Horsham Air Guard Station is shown Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Horsham, Pa. The military is checking whether chemicals from firefighting foam might have contaminated groundwater near its bases nationwide. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

White House feared PR ‘nightmare’ over agency’s stricter chemical limits, emails show

Emails show that the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Control is planning to publish recommendations that EPA officials warned would fuel public alarm.

7 years ago

In this April 14, 2016, file photo, a son, (at right), holds his mother's hand at her nursing home in Michigan. Most young adults haven’t given much thought to their own needs as they get older, but a significant number are already providing long-term care for older loved ones, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.   (Carlos Osorio/AP Photo, File)
Health

Poll: Young adults feel stress of long-term care

According to the poll, a third of American adults under age 40 have already provided care for an older relative or friend.

7 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court  (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
PBS News Hour
Money

Sanctuary cities could get boost from sports betting ruling

The Justice Department declined to comment on the decision.

7 years ago

In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Queen Latifah speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York.  (Richard Drew/AP Photo, File)
Education

Amid #MeToo, more colleges host women as graduation speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers.

7 years ago

In this Friday, April 13, 2018 photo, Sara Dhamija, (right), listens to a teacher during an anti-bullying class at the On Lok 30th Street Senior Center in San Francisco. Nursing homes, senior centers and housing complexes for the elderly have introduced programs, training and policies aimed at curbing spates of bullying, an issue once thought the exclusive domain of the young. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
Lifestyle

Nursing homes, senior centers find bullying has no age limit

"It's like 'Mean Girls,' but everyone is 80."

7 years ago

Dr. Paul Marik (left) discusses patient care with medical students and resident physicians during morning rounds at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in 2014 in Norfolk, Va. (Jay Westcott for The Washington Post/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Can a cocktail of vitamins and steroids cure a major killer in hospitals?

Scientists have launched two large studies to test a treatment that could have an enormous impact on the leading cause of death in American hospitals — sepsis.

7 years ago

President Trump is looking to overhaul to federal workforce by, in part, cutting retirement benefits (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Federal employees face cuts to retirement benefits, pay freezes

Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration.

7 years ago

A Chicago man has been charged with mail fraud and mail theft after allegedly changing UPS's corporate mailing address to the address of his own apartment. Here, mail is sorted at Chicago's main post office in 2006. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Man allegedly used change of address form to move UPS HQ to his apartment

As federal crimes go, this one seems to have been ridiculously easy to pull off.

7 years ago

CIA nominee Gina Haspel testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday. Alleged Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says he has information that could be relevant to her nomination. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
NPR
Politics & Policy

Sept. 11 architect wants to tell senators about torture but says Haspel classified it

Many senators believe she did not oppose torture strongly enough, and they pressed her on what her role was in the CIA's interrogation program.

7 years ago

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