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NAACP Leader: Confederate Flag's Fall Is An 'Extraordinary Moment'

10:38am July 11, 2015

The country's oldest civil rights organization begins its annual convention Saturday in Philadelphia. NPR's Wade Goodwyn speaks with NAACP President Cornell William Brooks.

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Leading U.S. Psychologists Secretly Aided CIA Torture Program

10:38am July 11, 2015

by Jon Hamilton

Independent investigation done for the American Psychological Association supports allegations that psychologists and APA officials enabled U.S. torture of prisoners in the wake of 9-11.

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Greeks And Tourists Living In Cash-Economy Limbo

10:38am July 11, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

As Greeks wait anxiously to hear if their government's latest plan to win a third bailout has been accepted by European lenders, they are struggling to get by with banks closed and credit cards blocked.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Divides Over Response To Killings

10:38am July 11, 2015

by Leila Fadel

A split has sharpened in the Muslim Brotherhood. Some members are calling for violence against the state after Egyptian security forces killed nine people in the outlawed group.

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Running Low: U.S. Grocers' Supplies Of Greek Olives And Feta

10:38am July 11, 2015

Imagine: salads without Kalamata olives and bread without Greek olive oil. NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks with Costas Mastoras, owner of a Greek import store in New York, about how turmoil in Greece is affecting his business.

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A resident rides a bicycle on a road submerged by water in Xiangshan county, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Saturday after Typhoon Chan-hom hit the Chinese coast south of Shanghai, forcing 1.1 million people to evacuate.

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Strong Typhoon Slams Shanghai, Second In A Week For China

10:00am July 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Chan-hom, packing winds of 100 mph, made landfall just south of Shanghai, forcing the evacuation of more than a million residents.

A woman weeps as she visits the grave of a family member killed in the 1995 massacre at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Saturday.

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20 Years After Srebrenica, Anger Over Genocide Still Runs Hot

9:27am July 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who was attending a ceremony in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark the 1995 massacre, was driven away by a crowd throwing rocks and bottles.

Activists in Sri Lanka got an early start on the day of action, with a demonstration by 800 people in Negombo province on the Sri Lanka's western coast.

Boy Band Joins The Masses To Take A Stand For Global Development

7:39am July 11, 2015

by Nadia Whitehead

One Direction is one of many supporters of today's "global day of action," when citizens will make demands of their leaders. The goal: to send a message to the Financing for Development summit.

Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, speaks about taxes on marijuana outside the Capitol in 2013. "Any industry that is heavily regulated by the government has to have an active voice," the group's deputy director

Pot Politics: The Marijuana Business Comes To Washington

7:03am July 11, 2015

by James Doubek

"We're going to be making sure that [members of Congress] know their constituents care about this stuff," said one industry representative.

Melissa Mathis holds a container of freeze-dried placenta capsules.

Texas Defends A Woman's Right To Take Her Placenta Home

1:36am July 11, 2015

by Carrie Feibel

Texas now explicitly allows the placenta to be taken home after giving birth in a hospital. It came about at the urging of people who feel consuming dried and encapsulated placenta helps new mothers.

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