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Celebrating The Fourth Of July In The Nation's Capital

9:33pm July 04, 2019

People decked out in red, white and blue celebrated in the rain during the National Independence Day Parade. There were also demonstrators, drummers and a whole lot of flags.

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Is Trump Politicizing The 4th Of July? Critics Say Yes

4:20pm July 04, 2019

by Brian Naylor

President Trump is adding to the holiday festivities with military vehicles, flyovers and a nationally televised speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Critics say he's turning the celebration into a political event.

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How The Trump Administration Could Still Add A Citizenship Question To The Census

4:20pm July 04, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California Irvine, about what the Trump administration can still do to add the citizenship question to the census.

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One Woman's Quest To Get Back Her Vegetable Garden Results In New Florida Law

4:20pm July 04, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

A zoning ordinance threatened Hermine Ricketts with a $50 fine each day for the front-yard vegetable garden she had tended for years. So she pulled it up — and got a lawyer.

A naturalization ceremony of new U.S. citizens at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia. The U.S. citizenship oath today is 140 words. It wasn't until 1929 that the oath's text was standardized, and the oath was amended in 1952 to emphas

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How The U.S. Citizenship Oath Came To Be What It Is Today

4:20pm July 04, 2019

If you are born in the United States, citizenship is a birthright. But if you immigrate to this country, the work of the citizenship process culminates in the reciting of an oath.

Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig sits outside his luxury suite to watch the Milwaukee Brewers game at Miller Park. His new book reveals how he navigated tumultuous events in his career like the devastating player strike and the spread o

Candid And Sometimes Angry, Bud Selig's New Book May Surprise You

1:03pm July 04, 2019

by Tom Goldman

In For the Good of the Game, the former Major League Baseball commissioner is candid offers a stark contrast to his public persona when he led the sport for 22 years.

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Responding To Conditions At Migrant Detention Centers

7:20am July 04, 2019

Rachel Martin speaks with Doris Meissner, the former head of Immigration and Naturalization Services, about what government agencies can do to respond to poor conditions at migrant detention centers.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton On Trump's Speech

7:06am July 04, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington, D.C., about President Trump's Fourth of July celebration in the city and the complications involved.

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D.C. Officials Push Back On Trump's July 4 Plans

7:06am July 04, 2019

by Elly Yu

President Trump is planning big changes to the annual Fourth of July festivities in Washington, D.C. Some D.C. residents are skeptical of the plans.

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Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy

7:06am July 04, 2019

One of the nation's largest coal producers has declared bankruptcy. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Lexington Herald-Leader reporter William Wright.

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