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Dylann Roof To Represent Himself In Charleston Church Shooting Trial

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Alexandra Olgin

There was a bit of a courtroom surprise Monday in Charleston, S.C. A federal judge granted accused church shooter Dylann Roof's request to represent himself in his trial.

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For Bay Of Pigs Veterans, Fidel Castro's Death Feels Bittersweet

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Adrian Florido

Among the Miami Cubans celebrating Fidel Castro's death are surviving veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion that tried to retake Cuba in 1961. For these men, news of Castro's death has been bittersweet.

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President-Elect Trump Makes Voter Fraud Claims Amid Push For Recount

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Tamara Keith

President-elect Donald Trump is making baseless claims about widespread voter fraud amid a push to recount votes in three key states that he won.

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California Secretary of State Urges Trump To Present Proof Of Voter Fraud

6:28pm November 28, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla about Donald Trump's allegations of voter fraud in the state.

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Suspect Dead After Knife And Car Attack At Ohio State University

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Jessica Mador

A man deliberately crashed his car into pedestrians on the Ohio University State campus in Columbus. The driver went on to attack passing students with a butcher knife. The suspect was shot and killed by a university police officer.

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Trump Presidency Casts Doubt Over Declassification Of CIA Torture Report

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by David Welna

Only a few copies exist of the infamous CIA torture report, and the Senate committee that created them has called for the agencies that received them to return them. Activists and journalists are hoping to keep those copies at least extant, so they might one day be declassified and released. They fear that if all the copies are returned, they will be destroyed and the information lost forever.

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How To Find The Best Deals On Cyber Monday

6:28pm November 28, 2016

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joanna Stern, personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, about this year's so-called "Cyber Monday." They discuss the best online tech deals, which tech gadgets make the perfect gift, and if consumers should be concerned about exploding batteries in this year's hottest gizmos.

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Texas, Oklahoma Divided Over How To Handle Earthquakes Linked To Oil Drilling

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by John Burnett

Oklahoma and Texas have been experiencing a rash of human-caused earthquakes. It happens when oil and gas wastewater gets pumped underground in the wrong places and disrupts faults. Oklahoma officials have cracked down on wastewater injection; Texas is apparently uninterested in doing much. That could mean a lot more quakes given that the country's biggest oil reservoir has just been discovered in west Texas.

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People wait to see President Obama on his way to make a televised address to the Cuban people in Havana on March 22. President Obama's opening to Cuba was carried out largely by executive orders that could be reversed when Donald Trump enters the White Ho

How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening To Cuba

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Michele Kelemen

President Obama reached out to Cuba mostly through executive orders. But those can easily be undone by Donald Trump, who is much more critical of the Cuban leadership.

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Biomedical researchers are amassing huge amounts of patient data but are having trouble making sense of the information.

Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It

6:28pm November 28, 2016

by Richard Harris

There's a plethora of projects to gather data about the brain, various kinds of cancer and every type of cell in the body. But researchers are struggling to keep up with the information explosion.

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