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What's Changed Since The Pulse Nightclub Shooting

5:16pm June 12, 2021

What's changed since the tragedy at Pulse nightclub in Orlando? Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith and George A. Wallace, executive director of LGBT+ Center Orlando, talk with NPR's Michel Martin.

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Ari Shapiro On Covering The Pulse Shooting

5:16pm June 12, 2021

When covering the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting, NPR's Ari Shapiro realized he had visited years prior. He tells host Michel Martin how that changed the way he covered the story.

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Apple announced this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference a new feature in its forthcoming operating system, iOS 15, that will digitize state-issued licenses and ID cards.

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Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge

4:15pm June 12, 2021

by Bobby Allyn

Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.

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Clippings from the Great Falls Tribune were part of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office investigative file into the 1956 murders of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle.

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Detectives Just Used DNA To Solve A 1956 Double Homicide. They May Have Made History

2:06pm June 12, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

It's one of the oldest criminal cases cracked with the new DNA technology. The murders of teen sweethearts Lloyd Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke had gone unsolved for more than 60 years.

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5 Years Later, 1 Pulse Shooting Survivor Remembers The Tragic Night

8:05am June 12, 2021

5 years ago this weekend, 49 people were killed and 53 injured in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A survivor, Orlando Torres, talks about that night and the years since.

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President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak during a bilateral meeting ahead of the G-7 summit on Thursday in Carbis Bay, England.

G-7 Leaders Are Set To Pledge 1 Billion Coronavirus Vaccines To Other Countries

9:17pm June 11, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

President Biden pledged the U.S. will donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine globally. "Our values call on us to do everything that we can to vaccinate the world against COVID-19," he said.

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It's A First! NPR And Member Stations KCUR And WABE Win A Pulitzer Prize

7:50pm June 11, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

NPR has won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting for No Compromise, a podcast about the role of the far right in American gun culture, co-produced with member stations KCUR and WABE.

Dr. Aaron Kesselheim (left), a professor at Harvard Medical School, at a documentary film screening in 2018 in Boston. He has resigned from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel over the FDA's decision to approve an Alzheimer's drug.

3 Experts Have Resigned From An FDA Committee Over Alzheimer's Drug Approval

7:04pm June 11, 2021

by Bill Chappell

In his resignation letter, Dr. Aaron Kesselheim calls it "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history." An FDA official says the agency found the benefits outweighed the risks.

1 Notable Aspect Of These Pulitzer Prize Winners: The Diversity They Represent

6:39pm June 11, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The Pulitzer Prizes awarded in arts and letters categories on Friday, June 11, were notable for many reasons: not least, the diversity represented by their recipients.

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Merrick Garland Promises A Plan To Protect Voting Access

4:29pm June 11, 2021

by Ryan Lucas

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced what the federal government can do to safeguard access to voting. This comes as Republicans seek legislation to control how elections are conducted.