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Justice Department Watchdog Finds No Bias By The FBI In The Russia Investigation

5:59pm December 09, 2019

by Greg Myre

An inspector general's report released Monday looks at how the FBI and the Justice Department conducted themselves in the early stages of the investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign.

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Jenni Grover holds a collection of finished patches from a quilt created by more than 100 volunteers across the country. The plans for the quilt were discovered at the estate sale of 99-year-old Rita Smith, who died earlier this year. Several dozen volunt

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Quilters Across The U.S. Answer Call To Help Sew Up Unfinished Project

5:59pm December 09, 2019

by Kate McGee

A Chicago woman found an unfinished quilt of the United States at an estate sale and sought help online to finish it. Quilters from around the country joined her last weekend to complete the project.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before Congress last year.

DOJ Watchdog On Russia Probe: No Evidence Of Bias, But Problems With Surveillance

5:27pm December 09, 2019

by Ryan Lucas

Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report enumerates multiple issues with the FISA application for former Trump aide Carter Page.

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Some Farmers Who Bet On Hemp Early Have Gotten Stung

5:11pm December 09, 2019

by Kevin Trevellyan

No state planted more hemp than Montana in 2018. But what looked like a lifeline as trade wars killed crop prices turned into a nightmare. Farmers and an economist explain high risk new markets.

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Why 'Out Magazine' Is Focusing Attention On The Deaths Of Transgender Women Of Color

5:11pm December 09, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Raquel Willis, executive editor for Out Magazine, about the magazine's Trans Obituaries Project, which memorializes trans women of color killed this year.

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FBI Says It's Investigating Shooting At Florida Naval Base As Possible Act Of Terror

5:11pm December 09, 2019

by Tom Bowman

The U.S. has a long history of military training for visiting Saudis. The deadly shooting at a Pensacola naval base by a Saudi national tests that relationship.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker listens to a question as he appears before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C., in 1980.

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Dies At 92

4:39pm December 09, 2019

by Yuki Noguchi

Volcker took the top job at the Federal Reserve in 1979, at a time when inflation was spiraling out of control. He is credited with taming it.

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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, pictured during a Senate Judiciary hearing in June, has released his office's report on the Russia investigation.

READ: DOJ Inspector General's Report On The Russia Investigation

2:21pm December 09, 2019

by NPR Staff

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been examining the way authorities used their surveillance powers in the Russia investigation. His final report was released on Monday.

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Shooter At Naval Air Station Pensacola Was A Saudi National

7:35am December 09, 2019

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Greg Allen and former homeland security official Juliette Kayyem about the shooting and the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

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National Security Adviser Aids In U.S.-Iran Prisoner Swap

6:15am December 09, 2019

The U.S. and Iran conducted a prisoner swap over the weekend. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to national security adviser Robert O'Brien who played a pivotal role in the negotiations.

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