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Monday, November 8, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, embrace following a joint statement and press conference  at  Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. Obama is on a three-day visit to the world's largest democracy.(AP)

U.S. Had Numerous Warnings About Mumbai Terror Plotter, President Obama Talks Trade And Security In India, Healthcare 2.0: People Look For Cures And Community Online, Author Dennis Lehane Continues ‘Gone Baby Gone’ Story

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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Some Lenders To Resume Home Foreclosures, Judge Strikes Down Montana’s Ban On Corporate Political Spending, What, Exactly, Is The US Chamber Of Commerce?, Climate Change Changes Fall Colors, Blogger Takes Aim At Campbell’s Soup, ‘Two Peds In A Pod’ Are On Frontline Of What’s Happening With Children, Political Silly Season

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Monday, October 18, 2010
Youths shout at riot police officers during a students demonstration in Lyon, France. (AP)

France Buffeted By Strikes And New Terror Threat, Online Tool Lets Patients Negotiate With Doctors, New Guidelines Drop The ‘P’ From CPR, Jimmy Carter Biography Follows The Story Of Peanut Farmer To President, Harold Bloom Looks At ‘Last Poems’

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Candidates for governor in California, Republican Meg Whitman, left, and Democrat Jerry Brown at a debate in Fresno, Calif. (AP)

High Court Hears Arguments On Vaccine Side Effects, Healthcare Reform Gets Mixed Marks, California Candidates Spar Over Name Calling, To Prevent Suicides, Movement Tells Gay Teens ‘It Gets Better’, Authors Spin Childhood Tales Of Writer Zora Neale Hurston

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Friday, October 1, 2010
Jeff Deck at the scene of a (grammar) crime. (Courtesy Ben Herson)

TARP To Expire With Losses Just A Fraction Of Estimates, Changing The World, One Typo At A Time, On The Road With China’s Car Clubs, Hospital Chain Responds To Cost Criticism, British Quartet Get The ‘Hang’ Of It

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Monday, September 27, 2010
Adrian Grenier in the WBUR studios in Boston. (Kevin Sullivan/WBUR.)

With Elections Looming, Republicans Rise, Early Screening, Intervention Can Help Children With Mental Illnesses, Sumo Wrestling Grapples With Gangsters In Japan, Adrian Grenier Turns Camera On A ‘Teenage Paparazzo’

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Monday, September 20, 2010
British soldiers from Somme Company providing security as Afghan National Army troops search compounds near the town of Sayedebad, Afghanistan. (AP)

Healthcare Provisions Kick In Ahead Of Midterm Elections, Inside C-Street, The House That Hoped To Transform America, Brits Turn Over Dangerous Afghan Province to Americans, Testimony Resumes This Week In CT Home Invasion And Murder Trial, ‘Cathy’ Says Good-bye After 34 Years

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Boston Nutcrackers roller derby team with Here & Now's Kassandra Sundt, "Maya Mangleyou," sixth from right.

Tea Party Triumph In Delaware, Tax Cuts and Small Businesses, Roller Derby Makes A Comeback, Does Market Clout Drive Up Healthcare Costs?, H&N Resident Chef Says You Can Can!

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Who are the Groups For & Against Health Care Reform?, Two Perspectives on Protests, Missing Girl Found after 18 Years, The Endangered Bluefin Tuna, Honored at Arlington

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Harvard Professor Racially Profiled?, Reporter’s Notebook: Cairo, Russian Cosmonaut Looks Back on Space Race, Is Massachusetts A Model for Healthcare Reform?, Rocker Ian Hunter

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Two men go through the damage surrounding the Moore Medical Center and damaged vehicals after a tornado moves through Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (Alonzo Adams/AP)

Kelly Frey, the editor of Oklahoma’s big daily newspaper The Oklahoman, is from El Reno, Okla. and describes what it’s like to grow up in “tornado alley.”

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Adam Scudder, Trisha Milittle, Tamra Jones and Bridget Kline, from left, take shelter at Pelican's Restaurant in northern Oklahoma City as a tornado passes nearby Friday night, May 9, 2003. (Andrew Laker/AP)

Are home-based shelters really enough to hold back an F5 category tornado, which can have winds upwards of 300 miles per hour? And what about people who don’t have home-based shelters?

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Monday, May 20, 2013
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If you find yourself waxing nostalgic for the kind of 1970s investigative journalism that led to the Watergate hearings, you can now relive the chills and thrills of the Washington Post investigation.

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