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After Maintaining Low Profile, Rex Tillerson Addresses State Department Staff

4:32pm May 03, 2017

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is addressing his staff on how he plans to cut the budget. The former Exxon Mobil CEO also hired a consulting firm to survey employees across the globe on ways to make the department more efficient.

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North Korea Confirms Detention Of Third American As Tensions Grow

4:32pm May 03, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Joseph DeTrani, former State Department special envoy for negotiations with North Korea, about the detention of a third American in North Korea.

Trump Lobbies House Republicans To Vote For Health Care Bill

4:32pm May 03, 2017

by Mara Liasson

President Trump personally lobbied House Republicans on Wednesday to vote for the revised GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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A right wing activist holds a sign during a rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on April 27, 2017 in Berkeley, California. Protestors are gathering in Berkeley to protest the cancellation of a speech by American conservative political commen

Hate Speech And The Misnomer Of 'The Marketplace of Ideas'

4:03pm May 03, 2017

by David Shih

The belief that more speech is the remedy for "bad" speech can be a principled stance. But racist hate speech may not be doing what free speech defenders think it is.

Last month, North Korean authorities detained Tony Kim, an American accounting instructor, at Pyongyang's airport. Above, a plane sits at the Pyongyang airport on April 17.

North Korea Says Detained American Had Intended To 'Subvert The Country'

3:57pm May 03, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Tony Kim, an accounting instructor in his 50s, was detained at Pyongyang's airport in April. At least two other Americans are known to be held in North Korea, sentenced to prison and hard labor.

President Trump gives a joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday at the White House.

Trump Says He Wants To Help Mediate Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal

3:08pm May 03, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

"I've always heard that perhaps the toughest deal to make is the deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Let's see if we can prove them wrong," he said alongside Palestinian leader Abbas.

A three-dimensional model of the proposed Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Here's How The Obama Presidential Center Will Look

2:50pm May 03, 2017

The Center will be located in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago's South side and it will include three buildings — a museum, forum and library that surround a public plaza.

Diverse classrooms are the key to building a better preschool, a new study reports.

Pre-K: Decades Worth Of Studies, One Strong Message

2:45pm May 03, 2017

by Claudio Sanchez

What happens when a group of the nation's leading pre-K experts get together to lay out a blueprint for what parents, and educators, can learn from decades of research?

A woman votes in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.

Noncitizens Will Soon Be Able To Vote In San Francisco — For School Board

2:31pm May 03, 2017

by Scott Shafer

"If you allow the children to attend school, why can't a parent have the right to vote?" said one parent. Some worry the move will complicate and jeopardize the integrity of the city's elections.

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Facebook Plans To Add 3,000 Workers To Monitor, Remove Violent Content

2:04pm May 03, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

"If we're going to build a safe community, we need to respond quickly," Mark Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday. The hiring spree comes amid a spate of violent videos uploaded to the site by users.