News

Amid Pressure From Nassar Case, USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun Will Step Down

9:51pm February 28, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Sally Jenkins about the resignation of U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun, who cited health problems due to prostate cancer as his reason for stepping down, but there have also been calls for his resignation for not doing enough to address the sexual abuse cases within the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team.

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Dick's Sporting Goods Shoppers React To Company's Decision To Limit Gun Sales

9:51pm February 28, 2018

Dick's Sporting Goods announced it will stop selling assault-style rifles like the one used in the Florida high school shooting and won't sell firearms to anyone under 21. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Cornell University business ethics professor Dana Radcliffe, who also teaches ethics and public policy at Syracuse University, about the company's decision.

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Supreme Court Examines Strict Laws For Inside Polling Places

9:51pm February 28, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

Polling places are politics-free zones. Could that change with a Supreme Court case out of Minnesota? The Supreme Court heard arguments in a key case Wednesday.

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Lawmakers Meet With President Trump To Discuss School Shooting Prevention

9:51pm February 28, 2018

by Scott Horsley

President Trump hosted Democratic and Republican lawmakers at the White House Wednesday to discuss proposals to prevent school shootings.

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President Trump speaks, watched by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, during a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress on school and community safety at the White House on Wednesday.

Trump Angers Conservatives Over Guns While Negotiating With Lawmakers On TV

9:10pm February 28, 2018

In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, now says that the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be determined by the upcoming midterm elections.

Top Democrat Says Election Will Decide DACA's Fate

8:16pm February 28, 2018

by Scott Detrow

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is conceding that a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program won't happen any time soon. He had been working toward a March 5 deadline set by the president.

A statement from Dick's Sporting Goods said, "We have to help solve the problem that's in front of us. Gun violence is an epidemic."

National

Walmart Joins Dick's Sporting Goods In Tighter Limits On Gun Sales

7:57pm February 28, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Both firms say customers will have to be 21 to buy a gun. Both are also putting new curbs on ammunition purchases in response to the Parkland, Fla., high school shootings.

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Army troops from The Old Guard at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Three people were hospitalized after a letter was opened on the Marine Corps side of the base.

National

Three Marines Treated After Exposure To Suspicious Substance From Envelope

7:27pm February 28, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

11 personnel at Virginia's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall felt ill, and 3 were transported to a hospital for further medical evaluations. All 3 were released.

Daniel Ek, CEO of Swedish music streaming service Spotify, in Tokyo in 2016. The company is expected to go public late next month or early April.

Music & Culture

Spotify Files Papers For Its Entry To The Stock Market

6:50pm February 28, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

The world's most popular music streaming service has announced its long-anticipated plan to debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify's fate, however, isn't entirely in its own hands.

Visitors walk toward Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.

Economy

Some Disneyland Employees Struggle To Pay For Food, Shelter, Survey Finds

6:10pm February 28, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

More than two-thirds of unionized workers at Disneyland in California tell surveyors that they are food insecure at the place advertised as the "happiest place on earth."