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Demonstrations Grow Against Egypt's President

6:38am September 27, 2019

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Jared Malsin about the latest protests in Egypt in which nearly 2,000 people have been arrested calling for the president's ouster.

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Gulf War Whistleblower Says He knew His Life Would Never Be The Same

6:33am September 27, 2019

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to ex-CIA analyst and whistleblower Patrick Eddington about his decision to reveal sensitive information about U.S. soldiers' exposure to toxins during the first Gulf War.

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News Brief: Trump-Ukraine Call, Latest Protests In Egypt

6:01am September 27, 2019

Whistleblower says White House officials were told to "lock down" all records of Trump's Ukraine call — to put them in a "codeword-level system. Anti-government protests grow larger in Egypt.

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The whistleblower complaint says notes from President Trump's call with the Ukrainian president, released this week, were loaded into an electronic system meant for classified information "of an especially sensitive nature."

Former Officials Say White House's Use Of Secret System Is Unusual, 'Disturbing'

5:40am September 27, 2019

National Security Council officials from prior administrations say a top-secret system reserved for highly sensitive government secrets should not be used for transcripts of foreign leader calls.

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A Swedish government program called the Edible Country recruited Michelin-starred chefs to create recipes that use ingredients that can be foraged from the areas around 13 picnic tables scattered across the countryside. Diners book a table, show up and hu

Foraging Is Part Of Swedish Identity; Now Its Countryside Is The Wildest Restaurant

9:32pm September 26, 2019

by Richard Morgan

The government recruited Michelin-starred chefs to craft recipes from ingredients that can be foraged at sites across the Swedish countryside. Diners book a table, show up and hunt for their own food.

Neal stands in a room with military cyber operators from Joint Task Force ARES to launch an operation that would become one of the largest and longest offensive cyber operations in U.S. military history.

How The U.S. Hacked ISIS

3:50pm September 26, 2019

by Dina Temple-Raston

In 2016, the U.S. launched a classified military cyberattack against ISIS to bring down its media operation. NPR interviewed nearly a dozen people who lived it.

On the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tells PBS in a documentary airing next week, "I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch."

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Saudi Crown Prince On Killing Of Jamal Khashoggi: 'It Happened Under My Watch'

2:10pm September 26, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

In an interview that appears in an upcoming PBS documentary, Mohammed bin Salman denies he had prior knowledge of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Residents of Sydney attend a rally last month at Parliament House in support of decriminalizing abortion.

Australia's Largest State Lifts Abortion Restrictions

2:04pm September 26, 2019

by Paolo Zialcita

The Parliament of New South Wales, home to the nation's largest city, Sydney, has removed unlawful abortion from the state's criminal code and has eased access to abortion services.

Chinese-style tile has replaced the domes and domed minarets of the Hongsibao Mosque in China's Ningxia region. Ningxia is home to a large concentration of Hui Muslims, who have long prided themselves on assimilation but are under increasing scrutiny by C

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'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown

11:19am September 26, 2019

by Emily Feng

A government crackdown on China's Muslim minorities has reached the Hui. "The pressure on not just one's religious behavior, but how one lives one's daily life, is unbearable," says a young Hui man.

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During Call To Ukraine President, Trump Disparages A U.S. Ambassador

9:09am September 26, 2019

by Martin Kaste

When President Trump fired the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine this past spring, it was at the urging of conservative media. We reconstruct how and why she was called home.

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