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Many Still Without Housing, Months After Louisiana Floods

7:57am April 29, 2017

by Tegan Wendland

After devastating floods in Louisiana eight months ago, FEMA put people in trailers and hotels. Many are still without housing and the deadline for getting FEMA assistance is near.

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Lebanese Photographer Visits U.S. Cities Named 'Lebanon'

7:57am April 29, 2017

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram about his project to visit all the U.S. cities named "Lebanon" around the country.

An Anasazi cliff dwelling, one of many ancient ruins in Recapture Canyon, Utah.

In Utah, How You Tread Through This Canyon Matters

7:57am April 29, 2017

by Kirk Siegler

In Utah's canyon country, federal land managers are partially lifting a ban on off-road vehicle travel through an area that's prized for its sensitive Native American cultural sites.

Sydney Ireland has been an unofficial member of Boy Scout Troop 414 in Manhattan since she was a little girl. She wants to become an Eagle Scout, but girls aren't allowed to earn merit badges.

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Meet The Teenage Girl Who Wants to Be A Boy Scout

7:33am April 29, 2017

by Yasmeen Khan

Sixteen-year-old Sydney Ireland has been an unofficial Boy Scout for more than a decade. Now she's petitioning the organization for the right to earn merit badges along with her male troop mates.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Emergency Banking Act into law on March 9, 1933. Roosevelt signed a record 15 major pieces of legislation in the first 100 days of his presidency.

The First 100 Days: 'A Standard That Not Even Roosevelt Achieved'

7:00am April 29, 2017

by Tamara Keith

The 100-days measure of a president is based on FDR's achievements in 1933. The problem for Trump is not that he's come up short of FDR, but that he's come up short of his own promises.

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Dave Cover (left), Doyle Smithson (center) and Rob Freeman meet weekday mornings at the Top Notch Diner in Cortland, Ohio. All three voted for President Trump.

Trump Continues To Have Staunch Supporters And Determined Opposition

7:00am April 29, 2017

by Don Gonyea

Across the country, President Trump continues to have the support of those who voted for him, and those who opposed him have found additional reasons to do so in the past 100 days.

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President Trump ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to look into whether the federal government has usurped state and local control of education.

Trump On Education Department: 'Reverse This Federal Power Grab'

6:05am April 29, 2017

Our weekly education news roundup: State officials criticize DeVos on student loan protections; and typos torpedo some grant applications for low-income students.

Those ubiquitous drug ads are selling cures to ills we'll probably never have.

Those TV Drug Ads Distract Us From The Medical Care We Need

5:00am April 29, 2017

by John Henning Schumann

Doctors spend lots of time answering questions about the latest drug ad, and that means less time answering questions that could really help your health, a primary care physician says.

Two reconstructed buildings stand in the former Manzanar War Relocation Center. Once, 10,046 people were imprisoned here.

Walking In Their Footsteps At A Former Japanese Internment Camp

4:01am April 29, 2017

by Melissa Hung

"I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."

Soldiers transfer the remains of Army Sgt. Joshua Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill., at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Rodgers and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio, were killed during a raid in Afghanistan.

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The Pentagon Investigates Possible Friendly Fire Deaths In Afghanistan

7:52pm April 28, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

U.S. forces targeting an ISIS leader may have accidentally killed two of their own.