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Proposal Would Curb Police Department's Use Of Militarized Gear

1:25am May 22, 2015

by Martin Kaste

President Obama announced restrictions on military-style hardware police may get from the federal government. Critics say the rules will have little impact on the trend toward military-style raids.

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States with implemented or planned online voter registration.

Cheap And Fast, Online Voter Registration Catches On

1:23am May 22, 2015

by Pam Fessler

Twenty states have implemented online voter registration and seven are expected to follow. It has Republican and Democratic support, but some still worry about cyberthreats.

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Murals on display across the street from the Red Bull House of Art gallery in Detroit, Mich. After the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, Detroit hopes outsiders will focus on the city's potential, not the history of conflict and crisis that ha

#MotorCityDrive: Is Detroit's Economic Engine Roaring Back To Life?

8:29pm May 21, 2015

by Michel Martin

Michel Martin heads to Detroit for a live conversation with some of the creative forces fueling the Motor City's economy. She'll ask: What's driving Detroit's future now?

#MotorCityDrive: Is Detroit's Economic Engine Roaring Back To Life?

8:29pm May 21, 2015

by Michel Martin

Michel Martin heads to Detroit for a live conversation with some of the creative forces fueling the Motor City's economy. She'll ask: What's driving Detroit's future now?

Police in riot gear stand around an armored vehicle as smoke fills the streets of Ferguson, Mo., in November 2014.

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White House Ban On Militarized Gear For Police May Mean Little

7:09pm May 21, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

An NPR analysis of equipment given to police agencies by the Pentagon since 2006 — 84,258 assault rifles, 951 armored vehicles, for example — found a vast majority of it would fall outside the ban.

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Maryland Drops Parallel Parking From Driver's License Test

7:07pm May 21, 2015

Maryland has dropped the requirement that drivers must take a parallel parking test, joining a handful of other states who have eliminated the test. People share their tricks to parallel parking.

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Bulk Collection Debate Highlights Need To Revise Patriot Act

7:07pm May 21, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Kim Zetter, a senior staff reporter at Wired magazine, who says the debate in Congress over the NSA's bulk collection program shows the Patriot Act needs to be revised.

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Senate Advances Bill To Give Obama 'Fast-Track' Trade Authority

7:07pm May 21, 2015

by Ailsa Chang

The Senate is trying to wrap up its business before leaving Washington, D.C., for a week-long recess. That includes considering a bill to give President Obama expanded authority on trade.

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Grand Jury Indicts 6 Baltimore Officers In Freddie Gray's Death

6:48pm May 21, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby said at a news conference that the officers will be arraigned July 2. The charges against them are mostly similar to those announced May 1.

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Muddled Messages In America's Past

6:17pm May 21, 2015

by Linton Weeks

Communication breakdown is not a new phenomenon. American history features a mass — and a mess — of misunderstood messages.