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Will The U.S. Military Really Welcome Women On Battlefields?

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

Now that the U.S. military has officially agreed to allow women into combat roles, let's examine how quickly the various branches are moving to make that happen. The overall process is expected to take years.

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Liberal Groups Say They Received IRS Scrutiny Too

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

The conventional shorthand for the IRS scandal is that employees "targeted" conservative groups for extra scrutiny in the applications for tax-exempt status. Except, as an inspector general's report showed, it wasn't just conservative groups that got extra scrutiny. Plenty of liberal groups had to produce extensive documentation answer dozens of questions, too.

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Bay Area Residents Forced To Wait For Bridge Repairs

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

One of the largest public works project in California history is struggling to re-gain public confidence amid construction delays and questions about whether the new bridge will be safe. A scheduled opening for Labor Day is in doubt as officials race to fix a series of bad bolts that were meant to keep the bridge secure in a catastrophic earthquake.

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Chrsyler Makes A U-Turn On Its Recall Position

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

The Detroit automaker is now recalling more than 1.5 million Jeeps after earlier refusing to carry out the move. Chrysler initially denied any problem existed.

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Ranking Indicates Digital Customers Are Unsatisfied

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

The companies that dominate America's access to TV and the Internet are not making their customers very happy. The American Customer Satisfaction Index examines attitudes toward more than 40 industries. And in that index, cable TV and Internet service providers rank dead last.

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Obama To Renew Call To Reduce Nuclear Weapons

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

President Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday before giving a speech at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. Fifty years ago next week, President Kennedy declared his support for the citizens of West Germany in his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.

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Liberal Groups Say They Received IRS Scrutiny Too

NPR Politics - 19 hours 39 min ago

The conventional shorthand for the IRS scandal is that employees "targeted" conservative groups for extra scrutiny in the applications for tax-exempt status. Except, as an inspector general's report showed, it wasn't just conservative groups that got extra scrutiny. Plenty of liberal groups had to produce extensive documentation answer dozens of questions, too.

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Obama To Renew Call To Reduce Nuclear Weapons

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

President Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday before giving a speech at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. Fifty years ago, President Kennedy declared his support for the citizens of West Berlin in his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at the same spot. President Obama is set to speak on the east side of the gate

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Will The U.S. Military Really Welcome Women On Battlefields?

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

Now that the U.S. Military has officially agreed to allow women into combat roles, NPR's Larry Abramson looks at just how quickly, or not, the various branches are moving to make that happen.

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Liberal Groups Say They Received IRS Scrutiny Too

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

The conventional shorthand for the IRS scandal is that employees "targeted" conservative groups for extra scrutiny in the applications for tax-exempt status. Except, as an inspector general's report showed, it wasn't just conservative groups that got the extra scrutiny. Plenty of liberal groups had to produce extensive documentation answer dozens of questions, too.

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Survey: African Americans Fearful Of U.S. Economy

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

And now another chapter in our series on African-American lives. NPR conducted a poll of African Americans with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. The survey found optimism but many respondents expressed fears about the economy.

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Bay Area Residents Forced To Wait For Bridge Repairs

Morning Edition - 19 hours 39 min ago

One of the largest public works project in California history is struggling to re-gain public confidence amid construction delays and questions about whether the new bridge will be safe. A scheduled opening for Labor Day is in doubt as officials race to fix a series of bad bolts that were meant to keep the bridge secure in a catastrophic earthquake.

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Business News

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David Greene has business news

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The Last Word In Business

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Steve Inskeep and David Greene have the Last Word in business.

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Liberal Groups Say They Received IRS Scrutiny Too

NPR Politics - 19 hours 39 min ago

The conventional shorthand for the IRS scandal is that employees "targeted" conservative groups for extra scrutiny in the applications for tax-exempt status. Except, as an inspector general's report showed, it wasn't just conservative groups that got the extra scrutiny. Plenty of liberal groups had to produce extensive documentation answer dozens of questions, too.

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Tick Tock: Make The Serve, Pitch, Putt Or Shot

NPR News - 20 hours 16 min ago

In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. Hurry up already, says commentator Frank Deford.

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Tick Tock: Make The Serve, Pitch, Putt Or Shot

Morning Edition - 20 hours 16 min ago

In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. Hurry up already, says commentator Frank Deford.

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U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll, But Hiring Is Slow And Steady

NPR News - 20 hours 18 min ago

Profits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.

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U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll, But Hiring Is Slow And Steady

Morning Edition - 20 hours 18 min ago

Profits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.

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Fashion's Victims: An Artist's Focus On Garment Workers

NPR News - 20 hours 19 min ago

More than 1,000 people were killed in the factory collapse in Bangladesh in April. Spanish companies were among those whose clothes were made at the facility. But there's a clash between the allure of low-cost fast fashion and consumer awareness of working conditions. A Spanish artist is doing her bit: She's drawing attention to workers' plight.

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