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After Freddie Gray, Baltimore Residents Continue To Criticize City's Police

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Andrea Seabrook

A year after the death of Freddie Gray, residents of his Sandtown, Baltimore, neighborhood are still unhappy with the city's police. Gray died in police custody, and the officers will go on trial later this spring.

Congress Considers Plan To Restructure Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Greg Allen

Puerto Rico is short of cash and at risk of defaulting on a $400 million debt payment due May 1. House speaker Paul Ryan pledged to have a plan ready by then to help Puerto Rico find a way to repay its more than $70 billion debt.

Pentagon To Send Additional 250 Special Forces Troops To Syria

4:37pm April 25, 2016

President Obama announced he will send additional U.S. special operations forces to Syria. The announcement comes at a time when ISIS's foothold on the region is, reportedly, weakening.

ISIS Uses Cyber Capabilities To Attack The U.S. Online

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Mary Louise Kelly

The U.S. and the West aren't the only ones operating on the cyber-battlefield in the war with ISIS. The terror group has cyber-capabilities of its own. NPR takes a look at these capabilities and explores how they play into the larger expansion of cyber-strike and counter-strike throughout the Middle East.

National Park Service Celebrates 100th Anniversary

4:37pm April 25, 2016

by Nathan Rott

The National Park Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its creation this year. NPR spends time on the job with workers in the country's busiest national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to explore the vast variety of work the park service does and the challenges it's facing.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appears on Capitol Hill in February.

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U.S. Spy Chief Considers Disclosing Number Of Americans Surveilled Online

4:31pm April 25, 2016

by Lauren Hodges

National Intelligence Director James Clapper says there are multiple obstacles in calculating just how many U.S. citizens are ensnared in government data-collection programs targeting foreigners.

The Cruz-Kasich Deal: Will Their Alliance Against Trump Work?

4:30pm April 25, 2016

by Scott Detrow

John Kasich and Ted Cruz will stay out of each other's way in three upcoming primary states. The nonaggression pact is an attempt to block Donald Trump from clinching the GOP nomination.

Can More Money Fix America's Schools?

4:30pm April 25, 2016

It's one of the loudest debates in education: whether spending more money adds up to better test scores and graduation rates.

A protester holds up a picture of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a December 2014 demonstration in Washington, D.C.

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Cleveland To Pay $6 Million To Settle Tamir Rice Lawsuit

3:27pm April 25, 2016

by Lauren Hodges

The city agreed to the settlement Monday in a civil rights suit brought by Tamir's family. The 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police officer in November 2014.

'Alter Egos' Dissects Hillary Clinton's Tenure As Obama's Secretary Of State

1:51pm April 25, 2016

Mark Landler of The New York Times discusses Clinton and Obama's contrasting views on America's role in the world. Clinton, Landler says, was often the hawk, more willing to intervene with force.

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