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Live from n.p.r. News in Washington Im Jack Speer Charlottesville Virginia today is mourning one of 3 people who lost their lives there last week and 32 year old Heather higher was killed after being run down by a car driven by a man who marched with white nationalists N.P.R.s Debbie Elliott reports hire was remembered at community memorial service today the historic downtown theater was full of people dressed in purple heather hires favorite color friends and family told stories of how she fo...

Watching this is appallinged by this its interesting that you said that. during the election, i never even heard of word alt-right until we started seeing it show up. and certainly you know, voters that i spoke to, they werent aware of this sort of fringe part of the base. if it is even part of the base. i dont know if these people showed up to vote, i dont know, whatever. what i think and i really agree with david. like this is a really important conversation that we have to have as a country i...

From w.h.y. Why in Philadelphia this is Fresh Air Im Dave Davies in for Terry Gross today the still unfolding story of the Kennedy assassination investigative reporter Philip Shenon talks about hundreds of newly declassified documents he says the CIA and f.b.i. Didnt want investigators of the Warren Commission to learn how much they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination as the director of the f.b.i. Later determined Clarence Kellys big conclusion at the end of his life was that ...

I f.m. 89.3 North Highlands Sacramento coming up here on the b.b.c. World Service after the news its hard to talk all the democratic freedoms being with away in Poland by the ruling Law and Justice Party its critics claim that its a rarity in the independence of the courts and the press My guest is the Polish foreign minister Witold fashion is Poland losing its standing within the European Union and in the white of well yes youre right that tens of thousands of protesters were protesting Kunder...

Im Marco Werman In some parts of Afghanistan women are not called by their own names in public instead a woman might be referred to as her fathers daughter or a sister now theres a campaign to stop that and give all Afghan women the recognition they deserve we carry children our bodies and only take care of them and we are held responsible that children could have cuts but we never get credit for the others and later the theory behind Soccer is financial fair play rules it is supposed to keep t...

>> it is a pretty hot item. youre going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it will be so easy. >> for all the talk, they never apparently bothered to come one a workable plan. instead, they are now at this very moment, debating what the basic framework for their health care bill should be. already, two proposals have failed. a repeal and replace strategy, voted down. a repeal only, voted down. putting off the question of replacement for the time being. even the r...

>> only one way to truly fix obamacare. on one way. thats a full replay. >> what i can tell you is that were 100% committed to repeal and replace obamacare. >> obamacare will be gone. >> were preparing to repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. >> it is a pretty hot item. youre going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it will be so easy. >> for all the talk, they never apparently bothered to come one a workable plan. instead, they are now at this very...

The phone to on the fence members trying to get them across the line. one source telling me the president would essentially tell members how well he did in their state and why they should vote with him. dont look past what senator mitch mcconnell was doing making promises to his members they would get opportunities to vote on what they wanted policy wise. in the end, it was the pressure that ended up working. members recognizing this was a vote they were going to be going on the record and very ...

And started greeting him individually including a whole slew of democrats nearly all of them coming over from their side of the senate to greet him. theres no doubt also that mccains return had a psychological impact on the vote you were talking about. obviously, arranging with mitch mcconnell to come back here for this key vote certainly will helped the effort to get the final last folks who may have hurdled to jump over to get to 50 votes and allow mike pence to cast the tiebreaking vote. on t...

Concluding a whole slew of senate nearly all of them come pretty good theyre side of the senate to agreed him. theres no doubt that mccains return has a psychological effect on the vote that you were talking about. arranging for mitch mcconnell to come back for this key vote has helped the effort to get the final last votes who may have a hurdle to jump over to get there, to get to 50 votes and allow mike pence to cast that tie-breaking vote. on the matter of healthcare this is just the beginnin...