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Meet The French Priest Documenting Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Yazidis

5:44pm March 09, 2018

by Eleanor Beardsley

Father Patrick Desbois has spent a decade uncovering the forgotten, mass graves of the 2 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Now he's using his same techniques to document crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidis.

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How Koreans Are Reacting To Potential Meeting Between Trump And Kim Jong Un

5:44pm March 09, 2018

by Elise Hu

South Korea has gone more than a generation without a diplomatic opening with the North and without anything like a hope for nuclear disarmament. NPR looks at how news of a possible meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un is playing out among Koreans, especially Korea's millennials.

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European Union Ambassador To The U.S. Weighs In With Response To Trump's Tariffs

5:44pm March 09, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David O'Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, about Europe's response to the new tariffs President Trump ordered for steel and aluminum imports.

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Defense Secretary Mattis Says Diplomacy Is The Way Forward For Talks With North Korea

5:44pm March 09, 2018

by Tom Bowman

With the State Department hollowed out, the generals have been driving North Korea policy. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has all along pushed for a diplomatic solution to the stand-off.

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Metformin pills — they're a go-to drug for type 2 diabetics — move through a sorting machine at a pharmaceutical plant in India.

Why Potentially Dodgy Diabetes Drugs Dominate in India

5:27pm March 09, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Indian drugmakers like to come up with combos — two meds in one pill. They can make more money that way. And they say it's easier for patients to take one pill than two. But is there a downside?

A 19th-century scientist who told cooks to stop adding flour at the end of cooking traditional Norwegian porridge faced the wrath of a nation.

The Great Norwegian Porridge Debate, Or Tradition Vs. 'Science'

4:43pm March 09, 2018

by Deena Prichep

In 1864, a male scientist tried to "porridge-splain" how to make proper gruel to Norwegian women who had been making it for centuries. It caused quite a stir and didn't work out so well for him.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross poses before a roundtable briefing in Hong Kong in September.

Trump Commerce Secretary Says Warnings About Tariffs Are Overhyped

1:56pm March 09, 2018

by Domenico Montanaro

Wilbur Ross, a leading advocate for the steel and aluminum tariffs the president announced this week, told NPR's Morning Edition the tariffs' impact isn't "much of a roar."

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman presents the book The Art of the Deal to North Korea's Sports Minister Kim Il Guk last June in Pyongyang, North Korea. Until this week, Rodman was believed to be the only person who had met both Kim and the U.S. president.

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Guess Who Knows Both President Trump And Kim Jong Un?

11:17am March 09, 2018

by Greg Myre

Until this week, only one person was believed to have spent quality time with both leaders: Dennis Rodman.

John Koenig: What If There Were A Word For Every Emotion In The World?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

When we can't describe how we're feeling, we say we "have no words." But in his made-up dictionary, writer John Koenig has invented words to describe our most abstract and ephemeral emotions.

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Tiffany Watt Smith: Did People In The Past Experience Emotions Differently?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Did past generations experience and express emotions the same way we do? Probably not, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith — perceptions of our emotions depend on the time and place.

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