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British Driver Says She's Sorry In 'Twit And Run' Case

NPR Top Stories - 1 hour 33 min ago

A British driver who struck a cyclist with her car — and who then bragged about the incident on Twitter — has issued an apology. The incident caused an uproar after the collision Sunday.

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Could African Crops Be Improved With Private Biotech Data?

NPR Top Stories - 1 hour 36 min ago

A plant scientist at Mars Inc., has appealed to the world's biggest life sciences companies to help him — by sharing what they already know about 100 crops that could provide better nutrition in Africa. But can the kings of agricultural intellectual property get on board with open source agricultural information for Africa?

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A Decade In The Making, West Bank Barrier Is Nearly Complete

NPR Top Stories - 1 hour 45 min ago

Despite much international criticism, Israel has kept building its West Bank barrier. It's now nearing completion, while the Israelis and Palestinians continue to argue over whether it will help or hurt prospects for a Middle East peace agreement.

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The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost

NPR Top Stories - 1 hour 45 min ago

Ironically, there's one piece of Web history that can't be found online: the very first page. Now, a team at the lab where the World Wide Web was born is on a hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that might hold copies of the missing files.

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Scandal Politics: The Downstream Effect

NPR Top Stories - 2 hours 19 min ago

The trio of scandals that have engulfed the White House may not be big news by 2014, but now is the time when prospective candidates must decide if they want to be on the ballot. Is the news of the moment hurting the effort?

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Costa Concordia Captain To Face Manslaughter Charges

NPR Top Stories - 2 hours 29 min ago

Capt. Francesco Schettino is accused of negligence that led to the grounding of the ship and of abandoning the stricken vessel while a rescue of its more than 4,200 passengers and crew was still underway.

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London Attack Deemed Likely Terrorist Incident

NPR Top Stories - 2 hours 58 min ago

The incident occurred Wednesday when the suspects attacked the man near a London military barracks.

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Polio Outbreak In Kenya: A Threat To Global Eradication

NPR Top Stories - 3 hours 35 min ago

A handful of polio infections in Kenya and Somalia could set back efforts to wipe out the virus worldwide, health workers warned Wednesday. The last time there was polio in this region, the virus spread throughout the Horn of Africa into the Middle East and eventually into Indonesia.

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Oregon's Cash-Strapped Counties Reject Public Safety Levies

NPR Top Stories - 3 hours 45 min ago

Two Oregon counties have reportedly rejected property tax increases that would have funded law enforcement and public safety services. The counties once received federal timber subsidies, but those days are over — and now they're scrambling to pay for essential services.

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Go East, Young Marijuana Dealer

NPR Top Stories - 3 hours 51 min ago

A San Francisco dealer quadrupled his income by moving to New York after California legalized medical marijuana.

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Riots In Sweden. That's Right. Sweden

NPR Top Stories - 4 hours 31 min ago

Sweden has a global reputation as a smoothly run, harmonious nation. But following the death of an immigrant, three nights of rioting have prompted some soul-searching.

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Male Sergeant May Have Filmed Female Cadets At West Point

NPR Top Stories - 5 hours 15 min ago

The sergeant has been accused of secretly videotaping at least a dozen female cadets, sometimes when they were showering. The New York Times report follows a series of accounts in recent weeks about alleged sexual assaults within the military.

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Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process

NPR Books - 5 hours 25 min ago

After years trying to conceive, novelist Jennifer Gilmore and her husband decided to adopt. What they thought would be a relatively simple process was instead a long and painful one. In her latest novel, Gilmore channels these autobiographical experiences into fiction.

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Research Reveals Yeasty Beasts Living On Our Skin

NPR Top Stories - 5 hours 32 min ago

While studying microorganisms on humans is not new, tracking fungi is. In a census of sorts, scientists checked the skin of healthy volunteers. They found an expansive ecosystem of silent inhabitants.

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China's Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium: Heavy Metal

NPR Top Stories - 5 hours 56 min ago

In 2011, police detained Ai Weiwei for 81 days. Now, he's released a song that's turned the experience into a heavy metal protest song, along with a dystopian nightmare video. The lyrics are explicit and angry. Ai says his music is for the many political prisoners who remain jailed.

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The Argument For Stop-And-Frisk

NPR Top Stories - 6 hours 33 min ago

Arguments in a court challenge against New York's stop-and-frisk policy wrapped up earlier this week. Critics say the policy promotes racial profiling. But host Michel Martin speaks with Heidi Grossman, New York City's lead attorney in the trial, to hear the Police Department's side of the story.

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Book News: Newly Found Pearl Buck Novel To Be Published This Fall

NPR Books - 11 hours 4 min ago

Also: shameless book blurbs; new plays from Ayad Ahktar; and a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone draws a record price at auction.

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A Different Kind Of Immigrant Experience In 'Americanah'

NPR Books - 11 hours 33 min ago

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest, Americanah, follows the trials and tribulations of Ifemelu, a middle-class Nigerian immigrant to America. Reviewer Jennifer Reese calls Americanah a "rich and gloriously detailed tapestry ... hung on the sturdy scaffolding of a sweet love story."

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Garcetti Holds Slim Lead As L.A. Picks New Mayor

NPR Top Stories - 14 hours 23 min ago

Councilman Eric Garcetti held a slender edge Tuesday in early returns over city Controller Wendy Greuel to become the next Los Angeles mayor, while slow-coming returns suggested it could take a day or more until a winner emerges.

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Anthony Weiner Launches Bid To Become NYC Mayor

NPR Top Stories - 14 hours 28 min ago

The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement late Tuesday that he's in the New York City mayoral race. He'd said last month he was considering it.

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