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National

On Jan. 28, 2015, with a record low snowpack, chairs sit idle on a ski lift at Donner Ski Ranch in Norden, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
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Money

New report finds climate change could take a $1B bite from winter sports

Low and variable snowfall is expected to become more commonplace as the climate warms.

8 years ago

US soldiers stand attention during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Resolute Support main headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 25, 2015. (Allauddin Khan/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s reality check: A combat soldier says arming teachers is ‘asinine’

Trump is still abuzz about arming teachers. For the second straight day, he played the monkey to the NRA organ grinder. Let's rebut his blather with the help of a soldier.

8 years ago

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are facing more charges from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mueller brings more charges against Manafort, Gates

Manafort and Gates already faced money laundering and other charges in federal court in Washington, D.C. They have pleaded not guilty.

8 years ago

An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, SC. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said.  (Jeff Blake/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Philly area lawmakers oppose Trump plan to cut Amtrak funding

The budget plan proposes cutting in half the federal subsidy for Amtrak, including slicing grants to the Northeast Corridor by $128 million.

8 years ago

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(M. Spencer Green/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trauma bags and armed guards: Securing schools without creating a fortress

Since the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, schools across the country have been hardening their defenses.

8 years ago

Attendees cheer a speaker during the Women's March
NPR
Politics & Policy

More than twice as many women are running for Congress in 2018 compared to 2016

Democratic women are amped up for 2018.

8 years ago

Demonstrators protest the lack of a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which includes so-called DREAMers, last month outside of Federal Plaza in New York City. There is still no deal. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Is the March 5 DACA deadline meaningful anymore?

When it comes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and Congress, no one seems to know what comes next.

8 years ago

The Rev. Eugene Bettinger celebrates Mass at the Chapel on the Mall on Ash Wednesday last year in Paramus. New Jersey has the second-highest concentration of Catholics in the country.  (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

New Jersey 2nd in U.S. for Catholic and Jewish identification, Gallup poll finds

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

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Pamela Tilton, (right), comforts Che James-Riley, 18, as they light a candle at a memorial for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. (Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

FBI received tip on Florida suspect but did not investigate

In a statement issued Friday, the agency acknowledged that the tip should have been shared with the FBI's Miami office and investigated, but it was not.

8 years ago

The capitol is seen against a darkened blue sky
PBS
Politics & Policy

Watch: Senate to vote on immigration proposals

A bipartisan group of senators pitching an immigration bill is pushing back against criticism from the Trump administration.

8 years ago

When Dustin Gordon arrived at the University of Iowa, he found himself taking lecture classes with more people in them than his entire hometown of Sharpsburg, Iowa, population 89. (Ben Smith/The Hechinger Report)
NPR
Education

Who’s missing from America’s colleges? Rural high school graduates

Dustin Gordon bucked the trend. Though neither of his parents finished college, they insisted that he go.

8 years ago

Nikolas Cruz pictured over a photo posted on his Instagram account which shows weapons lying on a bed. Cruz was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, the day after opening fire with a semi-automatic weapon in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Broward County Jail and Instagram via AP)
Community

Florida school shooting suspect belonged to white nationalist group

The leader of a white nationalist militia called the Republic of Florida said Cruz was a member of his group and participated in exercises in Tallahassee.

8 years ago

A man with a set of maps heads to a federal courthouse in San Antonio last year for a redistricting trial. Texas is one of three states with cases before the Supreme Court in redistricting. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Where redistricting fights stand across the country

Even as Democrats and Republicans spend 2018 vying to win key races around the country, a larger legal battle underway this year could reshape the American political map.

8 years ago

The flag above the White House is lowered to half-staff for the shooting victims of a mass shooting in a South Florida High School, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump addresses nation on deadly mass shooting

President Donald Trump to address the nation beginning at 11 a.m.

8 years ago

(From left) FBI Director Christopher Wray, accompanied by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley, National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo, speaks at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on worldwide threats, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

U.S. intel sees signs of Russian meddling in midterms

Three of the nation's top intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday that they have seen evidence of Russian meddling in the upcoming midterm elections.

8 years ago

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