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How Did 'Good Girls' From Colorado Get Recruited By ISIS?

6:28pm October 22, 2014

Three Denver-area teenaged girls were arrested after leaving the U.S. and seeking to join militants of the Islamic State in Syria. The teenagers were arrested in Germany over the weekend and returned home by the FBI on Monday. Robert Siegel talks to Megan Verlee of Colorado Public Radio.

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A voter casts her ballot at a polling site for Georgia's 2014 primary election in Atlanta.

Concern Over New-Voter Registration In Georgia Ahead Of Election

5:26pm October 22, 2014

by Hansi Lo Wang

Weeks before the November election, a Georgia lawsuit claims more than 40,000 voter registration applications — mainly from black, Latino and Asian-American voters — are missing.

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NHTSA Adds More Than 3 Million Vehicles To Air Bag Recall

5:07pm October 22, 2014

by Sam Sanders

Almost 8 million vehicles are now being recalled over worries their air bags could malfunction. Vehicle owners in hot and humid climates are under special alert.

An official at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor says its mix of patients helps explain the infection rates.

Hospitals Struggle To Beat Back Serious Infections

3:58pm October 22, 2014

by Jordan Rau

About 75,000 patients a year die from infections they caught in the hospital. A Kaiser Health News analysis finds that nearly 700 hospitals across the nation have higher than expected infection rates.

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Pentagon Says It Will Investigate Stray Arms Drop Over Syria

2:55pm October 22, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The self-declared Islamic State has released a video purporting to show its fighters rifling through a crate of grenades airdropped by a U.S. military cargo plane.

President Obama casts an early ballot for the midterm elections at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Service Center in Chicago on Monday.

In Tight Races, Both Parties Bank On Early Votes

2:48pm October 22, 2014

by Tamara Keith

Two million people have already voted in next month's election, including President Obama. Locking in votes early is huge, particularly since control of the Senate rests in a handful of close races.

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Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten leaves federal court in Washington in June. Slatten on Wednesday was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007.

Blackwater Guards Found Guilty In 2007 Shootings In Iraq

2:42pm October 22, 2014

by Scott Neuman

One guard was found guilty of first-degree murder and three others of voluntary manslaughter in a 2007 incident in Baghdad in which 14 civilians were killed.

Look, Mom, I Finally Made It To Broadway!

12:56pm October 22, 2014

by Michel Martin

NPR's Michel Martin will sit down with a panel of award-winning playwrights to ask about diversity in theater. Follow here or join us on Twitter on Friday at 7 p.m. ET, using #NPRMichel.

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Ray Rice Video Sets Off Barrage Of Conversations

12:54pm October 22, 2014

by Michel Martin

The assault by former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice on his then-fiancee was public knowledge. But a new video released by TMZ grabbed the public's attention.

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American Freed By North Korea Arrives Home

11:56am October 22, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Jeffrey Fowle, 56, who was arrested in North Korea in May after allegedly leaving a bible in a club for foreign sailors, arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base this morning.