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Trump Tweets Justice Ginsburg's 'Mind Is Shot,' Calls On Her To Resign

4:52pm July 13, 2016

by Amita Kelly

After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disparaged Donald Trump in several interviews, he fired back, saying her comments are "highly inappropriate" and "a disgrace to the court."

President Obama pauses during remarks at an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12 in Dallas, Texas.

Obama Walks Fine Line On Race And Policing

4:43pm July 13, 2016

by Scott Horsley

In the wake of last week's deadly police shootings and the attack on officers in Dallas, President Obama's message has been fairly consistent. Is anyone listening?

GOP Delegates Draft Conservative Party Platform Ahead Of Convention

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Brian Naylor

The Republican Party is set to adopt a platform with reliably conservative positions, even as the country has moved in a liberal direction.

Arizona Hispanics Poised To Swing State Blue

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Jude Joffe-Block

The GOP carried Arizona in nine of the last 10 presidential elections, but Hispanics in Maricopa County could swing the state to the Democrats this November.

Sam Tahour, district manager for Travel Centers of America, stands next to a travel plaza outside Kansas City. Tahour was trained by a new effort to identify and stop sex trafficking at truck stops.

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Truckers Take The Wheel In Effort To Halt Sex Trafficking

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Frank Morris

A group called Truckers Against Trafficking is helping states enlist truckers to spot and report forced prostitution. The effort has sent traffickers to prison and liberated hundreds of sex slaves.

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State Laws Restrict Release Of Police Body Cam Footage

4:36pm July 13, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Nancy La Vigne, director of the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, about a survey of state laws restricting the release of police body cam videos.

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Mourners Gather At Funerals For 3 Slain Dallas Police Officers

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Wade Goodwyn

Three Dallas officers killed when a gunman opened fire on a peaceful protest were buried Wednesday. Sgt. Michael Smith, Senior Cpl. Lorne B. Ahrens and Brent Thompson, an officer with Dallas Area Rapid Transit, are the first of five officers killed last Thursday to be buried.

Probable Vice Presidential Pick Tim Kaine To Campaign With Hillary Clinton

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Susan Davis

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is a on a short list to become Hillary Clinton's vice president. Kaine was also a finalist to become President Obama's running mate.

Lucky laboratory mice got to watch scenes from Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil, starring Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston.

A Mouse Watches Film Noir And Offers Clues To Human Consciousness

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Jon Hamilton

Researchers in Seattle have created a public observatory for studying the visual circuitry in a mouse's brain. Among the attractions: watching 18,000 neurons respond to Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.

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Map showing the area where some several thousand dollars from the D.B. Cooper hijacking was found in February 1980 by 8-year-old Brian Ingram while on a family outing.

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FBI Is Giving Up On Solving The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper

3:23pm July 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The FBI says it is giving up on the D.B. Cooper investigation, 45 years after the mysterious hijacker parachuted into the night with $200,000 in a briefcase, becoming an instant folk figure.