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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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Robert Caro attends Author's Night 2017 to benefit the East Hampton Library on Aug. 12, 2017 in East Hampton, New York.

In 'Working,' Writer Robert Caro Explains His Process — And What Drives Him

6:01am April 08, 2019

by Scott Detrow

The memoir is a window into the seemingly superhuman reporting, researching, writing and will-power that have led Caro's reinvention of the political biography. But when's the next LBJ book coming?

Lauren Cox (#15) of the Baylor Bears shoots over Brianna Turner (#11) of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Amalie Arena Sunday night in Tampa, Fla.

Baylor Beats Notre Dame To Win NCAA Women's Basketball Championship

12:48am April 08, 2019

by Emma Bowman

The Lady Bears held off the Fighting Irish by a single point, 82-81, Sunday night to seal their third national title. The last time Baylor clinched the title was in 2012 against Notre Dame.

Texas Congressman Will Hurd Reacts To Nielsen Resignation

7:43pm April 07, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Congressman Will Hurd who represents the 23rd district of Texas.

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Behind The Departure Of Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen

7:42pm April 07, 2019

by Mara Liasson

NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson gives us analysis of the news around the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen from the Department of Homeland Security.

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Texas Congressman Reacts To Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen's Resignation

7:33pm April 07, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Congressman Joaquin Castro about the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen, the director of the Department of Homeland Security.

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New Mexico Congresswoman Concerned That Border Patrol 'Is Not Quickly Adapting'

6:46pm April 07, 2019

Democratic Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small, from New Mexico's 2nd District, tells NPR's Michel Martin how she thinks the government should address border security.

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