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What The U.S. Is Doing To Ease Tensions Between India And Pakistan

6:30pm February 28, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Alyssa Ayres, of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the United States' role in mediating tensions between India and Pakistan.

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The Status Of Nuclear Weapons Around The World

6:30pm February 28, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joan Rohlfing, president and COO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative about the current status of nuclear weapons globally.

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President Trump Thinks Kim Jong Un Is Not Responsible For Otto Warmbier's Death

6:30pm February 28, 2019

At a summit in Vietnam, President Trump said he believed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's claim that he had nothing to do with the 2017 death of American college student Otto Warmbier.

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What's In Store For Future Negotiations Between The U.S. And North Korea

6:30pm February 28, 2019

by Scott Horsley

President Trump walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without a nuclear deal. What does this mean for future negotiations?

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Hispanic and black children are over-represented in child poverty totals.

Report: Child Poverty Could Be Cut In Half Over 10 Years, At A Hefty Price

6:30pm February 28, 2019

by Pam Fessler

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine lays out how to cut child poverty in half in 10 years.

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The animal, identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, washed up on a shore last week at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve.

Scientists Shocked By Rare, Giant Sunfish Washed Up On California Beach

6:22pm February 28, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

They initially thought it was a type of fish known to swim near Santa Barbara. But by collaborating with Australian scientists, they found it was a species never before documented in North America.

Why Snowpack Forecasts Are Important In California

5:56pm February 28, 2019

by Kirk Siegler

Huge snowstorms hit the West in February and in places like the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is well above average. Reservoir operators and farmers are watching the new snowpack forecast data closely.

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Expert North Korea Adviser Gives His Take On The U.S.-North Korea Summit

5:56pm February 28, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Victor Cha, an expert on North Korea and former top adviser to the George W. Bush administration, about the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi.

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Why Talks Between The U.S. And North Korea Abruptly Ended

5:20pm February 28, 2019

by Anthony Kuhn

The second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly collapsed Thursday when both sides failed to reach a deal in denuclearization talks.

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The House passed a background check bill that would allow federal authorities more time to conduct background checks on would-be gun purchasers. The bill faces long odds of being adopted in the Senate.

House Passes Second Gun Background Check Bill In As Many Days

5:10pm February 28, 2019

The measure seeks to close the so-called "Charleston loophole" that allowed an avowed white supremacist to buy a gun he used to kill 9 people at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston. S.C., in 2015.