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Senate Takes A Step Toward Riving Export-Import Bank

2:48pm July 30, 2015

In a rare Sunday session, the Senate voted to reauthorize the bank. Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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President Obama speaks in Ethiopia. While there, he noted that in the U.S., presidents can't run for more than two terms. But if they could, he said, he'd win.

Could President Obama Win A Third Term?

1:57pm July 30, 2015

by Ron Elving

Four U.S. presidents have completed a second term since that became the limit, and three of them might well have had a shot at winning again: Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

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Captives separated by a fence conduct communal evening prayers at the Camp 6 prison building at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

New Gitmo Plan Would Relocate Some Detainees To U.S.

1:59am July 30, 2015

by David Welna

President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser recently floated a plan to empty Guantanamo's detention camps and relocate "enemy combatants." The president promised in 2009 to shut down the facility.

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Senate Republicans Raise Concerns About Lifting Iran Economic Sanctions

7:56pm July 29, 2015

by Tom Bowman

Senate Republicans expressed skepticism about the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, including concern that the deal would allow Iran to acquire missiles and conventional arms in the coming years.

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Obama Administration Officials Take The 'Malign' Line On Iran

7:56pm July 29, 2015

by David Welna

'Malign' is the buzzword of the moment among administration officials to describe Iran's activities in the region. NPR takes a look at the use of the word.

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Johanna Fernández, co-curator of a new exhibition about the Young Lords, points to pages of the group's newspaper on display at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Once Outlaws, Young Lords Find A Museum Home For Radical Roots

7:56pm July 29, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

Inspired by the Black Panthers, the Young Lords were formed in New York City by a group of Puerto Rican youth in 1969. Their history is now on display in a new exhibition.

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After Boston Drops Olympic Bid, U.S. Committee Scrambles To Find New Choice

7:56pm July 29, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to Andrew Zimbalist, author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, about cities' reluctance to host the Olympics.

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Vice President Joe Biden addresses a progressive youth summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.

Could Joe Biden Get 'Ready For Biden'?

7:05pm July 29, 2015

by Jessica Taylor

It's unusual for a sitting vice president to not be a part of the campaign conversation. One group is urging Biden to run and holding out hope he hears the call.

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Detroit's Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine is named after presidential candidate Ben Carson.

How Democratic-Leaning Detroit Helped Shape Ben Carson's Conservative Views

4:51pm July 29, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

Detroit is not exactly known as a haven of conservatism, especially in the black community, but a look at where Carson grew up reveals a young man determined to carve his own path.

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah Sr., Of Philadelphia, Indicted On Corruption Charges

3:25pm July 29, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The Justice Department alleges that Fattah was involved in a wide-ranging conspiracy that included bribery, the illegal use of campaign contributions and theft of charitable funds.