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Supreme Court Sets Higher Bar For Revoking U.S. Citizenship

6:32pm June 22, 2017

by Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court said Thursday an immigrant's citizenship could not be revoked because of an untrue statement to authorities that was immaterial to the granting of citizenship.

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Brendan Dassey is escorted out of court in Wisconsin's Manitowoc County in 2006.

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Brendan Dassey Of 'Making A Murderer' Wins Federal Appeals Court Case

6:29pm June 22, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

A three-judge panel from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Dassey should be released unless the state of Wisconsin decides to retry him within 90 days or appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A grizzly mother and her cub in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

After 42 Years, Yellowstone Grizzly Will Be Taken Off Endangered Species List

6:27pm June 22, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Citing a population rebound, the Interior Department has announced plans to strip the bear of federal protection. But some groups are skeptical, and they've signaled they're prepared to resist.

When You Talk In Your Sleep, Are You Talking To Your Secret Self?

5:27pm June 22, 2017

by Abby Wendle

After hearing recordings of herself giggling and cheerfully talking in her sleep, Tanya Marquardt, who always thought of herself as tough and brooding, begins to connect with her other self.

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President Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then-director of the FBI, during a reception at the White House on Jan. 22.

Trump: 'I Did Not Make, And Do Not Have' Recordings Of Comey

5:05pm June 22, 2017

by Tamara Keith

After it was leaked that he allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey for loyalty during a private dinner, the president suggested there may have been "tapes" of their conversations.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined by other Republican senators, meets with reporters following a closed-door strategy session at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate Republicans Reveal Long-Awaited Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill

4:45pm June 22, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

The Senate's long-awaited "Better Care Reconciliation Act" was written largely in secret, with even many Senate Republicans unaware of what was in it.

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'Washington Post' Reporter Describes 'Social Contract' Of Police-Involved Shootings

4:31pm June 22, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, about his newspaper's police-involved shooting database and why guilty verdicts for police officers are so rare.

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Maine's Governor Releases Some Low-Level Prisoners To Fill Jobs

4:31pm June 22, 2017

by Susan Sharon

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is letting some low-level offenders out of prison. He says the inmates are needed in the work force.

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Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Removed From Endangered Species List

4:31pm June 22, 2017

by Nathan Rott

The Interior Department has announced that it will end federal protections for the Yellowstone grizzly bear.

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Funeral Held For Former North Korean Prisoner Otto Warmbier

4:31pm June 22, 2017

by Ann Thompson

The American college student who died shortly after being released from a North Korean prison was laid to rest Thursday in his hometown near Cincinnati. Otto Warmbier arrived back in the U.S. last week in a coma after being held by North Korea for more than a year.

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