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What Is The Role Of Jails In Treating The Mentally Ill?

1:00pm June 05, 2015

by NPR Staff

The United States incarcerates hundreds of thousands of inmates with mental health needs. Prisons and jails are trying to provide support, but incarceration is far from therapeutic.

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Amil Patel (left) and Bob Dunn run the front desk at this Walgreens pharmacy on the campus of the University of California, San Francisco. The store will be one of the first to take advantage of a new California law expanding pharmacists' scope of practic

Health & Safety

California Women Can Soon Go Right To The Pharmacist For Birth Control

12:44pm June 05, 2015

by April Dembosky

Under a new law being implemented in California, women will be able to walk into a pharmacy, get a prescription for contraceptive pills, the ring, or the patch, and get it filled — all in one visit.

Bazileo Hernandez (right) fills out a job application at a motel while searching for jobs in Williston, N.D., in January.

Economy Beats Expectations, Adding 280K New Jobs In May

11:55am June 05, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Labor Department says the jobless rate increased to 5.5 percent as more Americans who had been sitting on the sidelines begin looking for work.

An Access Health CT location in New Britain, Conn.

State Obamacare Exchanges Experience Growing Pains

11:50am June 05, 2015

Minnesota, Colorado and Connecticut are figuring out how to keep their health insurance marketplaces afloat as federal startup funding runs out.

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Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks to a crowd at a restaurant in New Hampshire in May. He's considering a run for president in 2016.

Q&A: Ohio Gov. John Kasich. He Does It His Way

11:13am June 05, 2015

by Don Gonyea

No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio. That's one reason Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the latest GOP candidate to give serious consideration to a White House bid.

Malala Yousafzai poses for photographs in New York. Yousafzai survived being shot by the Taliban in 2012 because she advocated education for girls.

World News

Pakistan Officials: Most Arrested In Malala Yousafzai Attack 'Secretly Acquitted'

9:47am June 05, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Authorities announced in April that 10 men had been convicted in the attack on the youth activist. Now they say all but two were actually "secretly acquitted" and set free.

Kanzi the bonobo (a species closely related to chimps) holds a pan of vegetables he cooked at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, November 2011. Kanzi was taught to cook. However, a new study is the first to show that animals can acquire a cooking-li

Science

Chimps Are No Chumps: Give Them An Oven, They'll Learn To Cook

9:22am June 05, 2015

by Jon Hamilton

That's what researchers found when they gave chimps a device that appeared to work like an oven. The findings add to the argument that our ancestors began cooking soon after learning to control fire.

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Nestlé's Maggi instant noodles gained popularity in India as the snack of the middle class in the 1980s.

India Orders Nestlé To Stop Selling Some Noodle Soup Products

9:19am June 05, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

India's Food Safety and Standards Authority said that the soups were "unsafe and hazardous for human consumption." Nestlé said the products had not been tested properly.

#NPRreads: Rube Goldberg Machine's Dark Origins And Spalding Gray's Last Days

8:56am June 05, 2015

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EPA Finds No Widespread Drinking Water Pollution From Fracking

8:01am June 05, 2015

by Jeff Brady

The report says there are few incidents of tainted water given the number of wells. Energy companies agree. Environmentalists accuse the industry of undue influence over the study.

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