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Homeland Security Office Uses Community Outreach To Fight Violent Extremism

5:25pm December 18, 2015

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to George Selim, director of the Office for Community Partnerships at DHS, about strategies to stop ISIS recruitment and preventing attacks by "lone wolves" on American soil.

The Empowerment Plan says it can produce 1,000 of these high-tech coats on a budget of $100,000.

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Chicago's Chance The Rapper Joins With Nonprofit To Give Coats To Homeless

5:23pm December 18, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The high-tech outerwear, which can also serve as sleeping bags, are manufactured in Detroit by homeless parents to help them earn a steady income.

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Friend Of San Bernardino Shooters Faces Criminal Charges

5:16pm December 18, 2015

by Matt Guilhem

Federal authorities have charged Enrique Marquez Jr. with conspiring to commit crimes of terrorism. He is also charged with committing immigration fraud by entering into a sham marriage.

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Stonegate Bank's Pompano Beach, Fla., location, shown here, announced it is setting up a correspondent banking relationship with a Cuban financial institution.

Little Florida Bank Goes Where Behemoths Fear To Tread: Cuba

5:15pm December 18, 2015

by Greg Allen

Middlemen, messy currencies and questions galore allude to the price of banking in Cuba — but that's not stopping Stonegate, the first to offer customers a debit card they can use across the strait.

'Washington Post' Columnist Ignatius On Obama's Choices To Thwart ISIS

4:38pm December 18, 2015

Ahead of the holidays, President Obama has been trying to calm fears about ISIS. David Ignatius of The Washington Post tells David Greene that Obama doesn't consider ISIS to be an existential threat.

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Nurse practitioner Rachelle Quimpo begins an ear exam on Shreya Sasaki at a Kaiser Permanente health clinic inside a Target retail department store in San Diego, Calif., as Dr. Heidi Meyer watches via video. Kaiser says it will train medical students to p

Kaiser Permanente's New Medical School Will Focus On Teamwork

4:34pm December 18, 2015

by Julie Rovner

The California-based health care provider plans to enroll its first students in 2019. It's the latest of 20 U.S. medical schools opened in the past decade to boost the number of primary care doctors.

Week In Politics: GOP Debate, Obama's Legacy

4:29pm December 18, 2015

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times about the GOP debate this week and President Obama's legacy.

Secretary Of State Kerry Works To Focus Global Leaders On Syria

4:29pm December 18, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

Secretary of State John Kerry tries to keep up the momentum in talks to resolve the civil war in Syria. Nearly 20 countries are meeting in New York to plan for peace talks expected next month.

President Obama speaks to the media during his year-end news conference at the White House on Friday.

Obama Wraps Up 2015 With Year-End News Conference

4:09pm December 18, 2015

by Camila Domonoske

The president took questions Friday afternoon. Afterward, he'll travel to San Bernardino, Calif., to visit families of victims of this month's terrorist attack, before heading off for vacation.

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Obama Commutes Prison Sentences For 95 Nonviolent Offenders

3:57pm December 18, 2015

by Merrit Kennedy

The White House says it is shortening the sentences for 95 men and women in federal prisons for nonviolent crimes. Obama has now commuted more sentences than the previous five presidents combined.