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Are Car Insurers Making Minorities Pay Higher Premiums?

6:18pm April 09, 2017

by Michel Martin

Julia Angwin of ProPublica discusses a new study that found, on average, drivers who live in white neighborhoods pay less for car insurance than those in predominantly non-white neighborhoods.

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Fresh Express announced a recall of a "limited distribution" of its prepackaged Organic Marketside Spring Mix, after two people from Florida found an unwelcome organism in one container.

Fresh Express Recalls Batch After Dead Bat Found In Prepackaged Salad

4:46pm April 09, 2017

by Emma Bowman

Federal health officials are investigating the case, after a couple of Florida salad eaters stumbled upon a perhaps too organic spring mix purchased at Walmart.

Park Ranger Ibarra poses for a portrait.

PHOTOS: The Creamy, Sculpted Dunes Of White Sands National Monument

4:23pm April 09, 2017

There's no place like it on the planet: White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. It's the world's largest gypsum dunefield: miles and miles of stunning white landscape.

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Under a rarely used law, lawmakers have voted to repeal more than a dozen regulations enacted in the last six months of the Obama administration.

Republicans Are Using An Obscure Law To Repeal Some Obama-Era Regulations

10:52am April 09, 2017

by Brian Naylor

The Congressional Review Act has allowed the Republican-controlled Congress and President Trump to repeal nearly a dozen regulations enacted in the last six months of the Obama administration.

This is mountain lion kitten known as P-54 found in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. It is the only known kitten from P-23's third litter, according to the National Park Service.

A Mountain Lion Kitten Is Found, Leading To Excitement And Concern

10:16am April 09, 2017

by Nathan Rott

A mountain lion kitten was found in the Santa Monica Mountains, just outside Los Angeles. Biologists are excited to see new kittens being born but are concerned about inbreeding.

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Neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz On Syria Airstrikes

8:02am April 09, 2017

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz about options for the United States in Syria following the chemical attacks and U.S. response last week.

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The Call-In: Rural Life

8:02am April 09, 2017

On this week's The Call-In we explore what it's like to live in rural America. A retired teacher talks about the challenges of education, and we hear about a broadband Internet cooperative.

A Roundtable On Trump, Syria And What Lies Ahead

8:02am April 09, 2017

Greg Jaffe of The Washington Post, Sheera Frenkel of BuzzFeed News, and Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times discuss President Trump's recent airstrike on Syria with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

A new study looked at whether playing the game Tetris within six hours of a car crash helped patients deal with intrusive bad memories.

How Playing Tetris Tames The Trauma Of A Car Crash

5:00am April 09, 2017

by Bret Stetka

Researchers were able to dial down painful recollections of a car crash by having people play the video game Tetris while in the emergency room. The technique makes use of the malleability of memory.

Parents, students and supporters of Chicago Public Schools teachers gather at a press conference in 2016 near Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home.

Chicago Mayor's Plan To Update H.S. Graduation Has A Fatal Flaw

4:03am April 09, 2017

by Amy Alexander

The mayor's mention of "like you do with your children," raises questions about his grasp of his school district's largest student and parent constituency — African-Americans and Latinos.