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Officer's Acquittal Renews Calls For Baltimore Police Reform

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Abortion-Rights Supporters, Opponents Plan Next Steps

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Charges Against Remaining Officers Dropped In Freddie Gray Case

Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MONTAGNE, HOST: In a surprise move, Baltimore prosecutors have dropped all charges against three officers who still face trial in the death of Freddie Gray. The...

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Remaining Charges Against Officers In Freddie Gray's Death Dropped

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A New Course At Arkansas Colleges: How To Not Get Pregnant

Orientation at Arkansas Tech University this year included a surprising topic for a Bible Belt state that pushes abstinence-only in high school. Every freshman was shown a newly produced video in which...

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Worried About A Bleak Future, Climate Change Activists Hesitant To Have Kids

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An Even Deadlier Opioid, Carfentanil, Is Hitting The Streets

A powerful drug that's normally used to tranquilize elephants is being blamed for a record spike in drug overdoses in the Midwest. Officials in Ohio have declared a public health emergency, and the...

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On Your Mark, Give Birth, Go Back To Work

On her first day back at work after giving birth, Tricia Olson drank copious amounts of coffee, stuffed tissues in her pocket, and tried not to cry. After all, her son Gus was just 3 weeks old.Olson,...

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From Cooks To Accountants: Hilton Extends Paid Parental Leave To All

In the two-story breakfast room on the 25th floor of Hilton's Conrad Miami, Florance Eloi mans the omelet stand in front of a panoramic view of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. The bubbly Miami...

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Fact-Checking Trump's Statements On 'Partial-Birth' Abortion

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Poverty Wages For U.S. Child Care Workers May Be Behind High Turnover

In Greensboro, N.C., Eyeisha Holt spends her days as a full-time child care worker at Head Start. But after a decade's work in early education she still earns only $11.50 an hour — barely enough, she...

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Access To Abortion Could Be Curtailed Under Trump Administration

Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Women's Health had been having a banner year. Her organization, based in Charlottesville, Va., operates several abortion clinics around the country and brought a legal...

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This Family Doesn't Agree On Trump — But They Await His Presidency Together

The most contentious presidential campaign and election in memory has many people dreading the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Some have even canceled plans , unwilling to face family members on the...

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Abortion-Rights Groups Challenge Restrictions In 3 States

There's no shortage of speculation about how the incoming Trump administration, whose appointees so far are staunch abortion opponents, might crack down on access to the procedure. But reproductive...

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Ohio Gov. Kasich Mulling State Abortion Bans

Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to take a look at a story in Ohio, where the state legislature this week passed a new law banning abortion at six weeks...

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Activist Groups Expect More States To Take Up New Anti-Abortion Measures

Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Texas isn't alone in this. Its regulations requiring the burial of aborted fetuses are part of a wave of such measures nationwide. NPR's...

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Lawsuit Challenges Fetal Burial Rule In Texas

Abortion rights groups filed suit Monday to stop the state of Texas from enacting a rule on Dec. 19 that requires fetal remains to be buried or cremated after miscarriages or abortions. The lawsuit...

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Crowds Eager To Pass Through Security To Witness Trump Inauguration

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Inauguration Day here in Washington, D.C., and already thousands of Donald Trump supporters are gathering at checkpoints along the Mall...

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As Obama Clean Power Plan Fades, States Craft Strategies To Move Beyond It

There have been no executive orders yet to undo President Barack Obama's signature climate plan, but many officials and environmental groups consider it as good as dead. The Clean Power Plan is on hold...

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Big Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables

Kevin Butt's job is to find cleaner ways to power Toyota. One of the hardest places to do that is at the automaker's sprawling plant in central Kentucky, a state where nearly 90 percent of electricity...

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