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Russia Delivers Warning To U.S. After Downing Of Syrian Warplane

4:33pm June 19, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Robert Malley, vice president for policy of the International Crisis Group and former "ISIS Czar" for President Obama, about the downing of the Syrian fighter jet by the U.S., and the implications both militarily and diplomatically.

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Senate Democrats Stage Stand-Off Over GOP Health Care Efforts

4:33pm June 19, 2017

by Geoff Bennett

Senate Republicans have two weeks to meet a self-imposed deadline to vote on a health care bill. Democrats and several Republicans are criticizing the closed-door process for drafting the legislation.

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Alaska Governor Raises Concerns About Republican Health Care Efforts

4:33pm June 19, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Alaska Gov. Bill Walker about his concerns with the American Health Care Act. With its remote rural communities, Alaska has some of the highest insurance costs in the country.

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Bookstore Owner Sues California Over Law Regulating Autographed Items

4:33pm June 19, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

A new California law regulates how autographed items may be sold. Originally intended to cover sports memorabilia and an apparently thriving market in fake autographs, bookstores are worried it will shut down popular author book signings. Now one of them has filed suit.

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Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare brain disease in 2010, and then learned she had inherited the same genetic mutation. She and her husband, Eric Minikel, went back to school to study the family of illnesses — prion diseases — in the hope of find

A Couple's Quest To Stop A Rare Disease Before It Takes One Of Them

4:33pm June 19, 2017

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Twenty years. That's how long two grad students, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel, think they have before a deadly disease envelops Sonia's brain. The Massachusetts couple is now racing to find a cure.

Without predictable access to housing or food, the students at Positive Tomorrows live in a constant state of stress. The teachers and administration work on techniques for managing anxiety and other emotions. Here, students in Shelly Fryer's class take

A School That Provides The One Constant In Homeless Children's Lives

4:11pm June 19, 2017

by Katie Hayes Luke

Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City addresses education and other basic needs for homeless students and their families.

About 10,000 cardiac arrests happen in workplaces each year, according to the American Heart Association. Using an automatic external defibrillator can increase the chance of survival.

Can You Find The Defibrillator At Work? Half Of People Say No

3:15pm June 19, 2017

by Courtney Columbus

People who work in the hospitality and service industries were even less likely to know where to find an AED, according to a new survey. The devices can restart someone's heart after cardiac arrest.

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Man Charged In Killing Of Muslim Teenager In Virginia

3:02pm June 19, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Darwin A. Martinez Torres, 22, is accused of killing Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Va., who was reportedly walking with her friends back to a mosque after getting breakfast early Sunday.

Former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, left, faces a murder charge over the death of Sam DuBose. Tensing is seen here during his retrial Friday at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati.

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Ray Tensing Police Shooting Case Goes To A Jury, For The Second Time

2:36pm June 19, 2017

by Bill Chappell

An earlier trial ended in a hung jury last November. Tensing faces murder and manslaughter charges over his killing of Sam DuBose in 2015.

Kamni Vallabh helps her daughter Sonia get ready for her wedding, a few months before Kamni started showing symptoms of the prion disease that would kill her.

A Mother's Early Death Drives Her Daughter To Find A Treatment

2:27pm June 19, 2017

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Sonia Vallabh knows that by the time she's middle-aged, a rare inherited disease will likely start killing off her brain cells. She and her husband have become scientists to try to stop the disease.

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