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What's Next For Immigration As Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Leaves

5:09pm April 08, 2019

by John Burnett

President Trump has signaled he'll take a tougher approach to immigration after the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and as migrant families continue to cross the border.

Migration Policy Institute President Reacts To Resignation Of Kirstjen Nielsen From DHS

4:40pm April 08, 2019

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned Sunday. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, about how she implemented President Trump's policy.

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Barbara holds an imprint of her grandson Alijah's hand and foot that she was given after he died. Jessica, the baby's aunt, called 911 when he was found limp. The operator failed to recognize that the baby was in cardiac arrest, meaning that his heart had

A Baby In Cardiac Arrest And An Emergency Dispatcher Who Did Not Know Telephone CPR

4:19pm April 08, 2019

by Lynn Arditi

Emergency dispatchers play a key role when people go into cardiac arrest, but there are no national requirements that they be trained in telephone CPR.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller, center, leaves after a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 21, 2017, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

House Judiciary Leaders Unite In Call For Mueller Hearing; Unclear If He'd Appear

3:37pm April 08, 2019

by Philip Ewing

The Democratic chairman and the Republican ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee say they agree that they want to hear from Robert Mueller. But silence endures from the Justice Department.

Roughly 150 adults and children are gathered at a stash house, waiting around for their trip northward.

Coyotes' Boomtown: Picking Up The Migrant Trail On The Way To The U.S.-Mexico Border

2:32pm April 08, 2019

by John Burnett

Migrants from Central America who end up in the U.S. must cross the Guatemala-Mexico border, where immigration control is light to nonexistent. Quicker journeys are spurring more illegal immigration.

The U.S. has designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. Here, members of the force march during a 2007 military parade in Tehran.

U.S. Labels Iran's Revolutionary Guard As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

1:02pm April 08, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Iranian officials say they're prepared to retaliate in kind, warning that the elite Revolutionary Guard could now view U.S. troops the same way it sees ISIS.

14-Year Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico Could Go On For Decades

7:33am April 08, 2019

by Tegan Wendland

The U.S. Coast Guard is trying to clean up an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that's been going on since 2004 when a hurricane toppled a rig owned by Taylor Energy, a New Orleans-based firm.

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Minnesota Has An Opening For A Historian To Manage Iconic Lighthouse

6:57am April 08, 2019

by Euan Kerr

Lee Radzak is retiring as the Split Rock lighthouse keeper after 36 years — welcoming 160,000 visitors a year. The Minnesota Historical Society is launching a search for a replacement.

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President Trump vowed in January to "detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States anywhere, anytime, anyplace." Doing so would likely mean basing defenses in space.

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Trump's Plan To Zap Incoming Missiles With Lasers Is Back To The Future

6:57am April 08, 2019

by Geoff Brumfiel

The president's 2020 budget plan calls for studying space-based energy weapons as a way to stop warheads. Critics say it didn't work with the "Star Wars" program in the 1980s and it won't work now.

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How Students May Be Cheating Their Way Through College

6:41am April 08, 2019

by Tovia Smith

Concern is growing at the nation's colleges and universities about a burgeoning online market, where students can buy ghost-written essays. Schools are trying new tools to catch it.

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