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Steve and Janet Singleton, both Navy veterans, have lived in Clarksville, Tenn., for about a year. Steve couldn't get into the local VA clinic last spring, so now they have to drive to the Nashville clinic or pay out of pocket for medical care.

Overcrowding Forces Tennessee VA Clinic To Stop Accepting New Patients

7:49pm April 22, 2016

by Emily Siner

The growing veterans population in places like Clarksville, Tenn., is straining resources at VA clinics and making it difficult for vets to get nearby medical care.

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RNC Wraps Up Final Meeting Before National Convention

7:36pm April 22, 2016

by Susan Davis

Republican National Convention delegates have been talking about nominating rules and the delegate counts. NPR explores what we've learned about what the party's nominating convention will look like.

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Law Enforcement Continue Investigation Into Prince's Death

7:36pm April 22, 2016

by Tim Nelson

The autopsy on the performer Prince is underway, though results may not be known for days or weeks. Meanwhile, law enforcement is talking about the events Thursday that led them to his compound where they discovered him.

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Missouri's Proposed Religious Freedom Amendment Sets Old Allies At Odds

7:35pm April 22, 2016

by Frank Morris

The business community, including solidly GOP-leaning groups, oppose the bill, after seeing the effect of similar measures elsewhere. The blowback has surprised Christian conservatives in Missouri.

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Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights To Ex-Felons

7:18pm April 22, 2016

By executive action, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, moved to expand voting rights to more than 200,000 ex-offenders in the state. Republicans have criticized the decision because of its election year timing. But McAuliffe tells NPR's Kelly McEvers that it was a "moral issue."

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Shoemaker New Balance Challenges Obama On Trans-Pacific Partnership

7:15pm April 22, 2016

by Robert Smith

Shoemaker New Balance is criticizing the Obama administration over the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company is trying to make a running shoe with 100 percent American parts and feel the trade deal will doom shoes made in the U.S.

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Key Haven, a Florida neighborhood about a mile east of Key West, is where a test of Oxitec's genetically engineered mosquitoes might take place later this year. Some neighbors have strongly dissented — at public meetings and via yard signs.

Florida Keys Weigh Options For Battling Mosquitoes And Zika

6:34pm April 22, 2016

by Nancy Klingener

Residents of these islands have waged many campaigns against disease-carrying mosquitoes. But there's still not much agreement at public meetings about how the mosquitoes should be controlled.

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U.S. Proposes Removing Yellowstone Grizzly Bears From Endangered Species List

6:19pm April 22, 2016

by Eric Whitney

Grizzly bears in Yellowstone may soon lose protection from the federal government. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed taking the bears off the endangered species list, saying the population has recovered to a self-sustaining number. Opponents dispute that, in part because they say federal biologists aren't sufficiently accounting for climate change threatening their food sources.

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Authorities set up road blocks at an intersection at the perimeter of a crime scene, on Friday in Pike County, Ohio.

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Apparent 'Execution-Style' Killings Leave 8 Dead In Pike County, Ohio

6:07pm April 22, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Authorities say the victims were all from the same family. Investigators are working four separate crime scenes and don't have anyone in custody.

'He Loved People Whether He Showed It Or Not': Sheila E. Remembers Prince

5:53pm April 22, 2016

Sheila E. recorded hits like "A Love Bizarre" and "The Glamorous Life" with Prince back in the mid-1980s. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to her about her memories of Prince, who died Thursday at age 57.