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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Obama: Sexual Assault Has No Place In The Military
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama delivered the commencement address at Annapolis on Friday, challenging the U.S. Naval Academy graduates to help redefine national defense in the 21st century.
 
Week In Politics: Obama And Drone Strikes
May 24, 2013 | NPR · Melissa Block speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss highlights from the national security speech delivered by President Obama on Thursday.
 
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Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season
May 24, 2013 | NJN · Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it borrowed $10 million to repair the waterfront in time for the critical Memorial Day weekend.
 

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Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Research shows that prime-time television isn't a bad place to find portrayals of working women. Working moms and working women over 40 are another story.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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Learning The NPR API Has Never Been Easier
Feb 20, 2013 — Our Codecademy tutorial is the latest self-service tool from NPR. We've put together five lessons on the basics of working with stories, transcripts and station data that go into every NPR web and mobile app. Try it now, and let us know what you think.
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Using Google's Haiti Missing Persons Widget
Jan 17, 2010 — Google has published an easy-to-use widget that allows people to search or submit missing persons from the Haiti earthquake.
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Introducing The NPR Gadget For iGoogle
Sep 2, 2009 — NPR has released its first gadget for iGoogle. Powered by the NPR API, it allows iGoogle users a convenient way to access and experience NPR content.
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API Presentation at CPB
Aug 24, 2009 — NPR gave a presentation on the API to the staff of CPB. This presentation was the first in a series that Rob is hosting to expose the staff of the CPB to the rapidly changing technology advancements in the digital media space. Come download and ...
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NPR, the API and OSCON 2009
Aug 11, 2009 — It has been more than a year since NPR released our API and formally announced it at OSCON 2008. A lot has happened since that initial release, including a range of enhancements like our Station Finder API, Mix Your Own Podcast and the Full Trans...
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Coming Soon : NPR App on Symbian Platform
Aug 3, 2009 — By Daniel Jacobson and Robert Spier A few weeks ago, Symbian announced their new Horizon publishing program designed to enable and assist developers in building applications for mobile devices that run Symbian software. Horizon will be going li...
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API Update : New Transcript API and Much More
Jul 29, 2009 — With the new site launch, NPR has also made some significant changes to the API. Most notably, we have added our new Transcript API. Find out what other changes we made and tell us what else you would like to see in our API.
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Announcing OSCON Media Mashup with NPR and NYT
Jul 8, 2009 — NPR has teamed up with The New York Times to present Media Mashup at OSCON, 2009. The event will be from 12:30 - 2:30 on Friday, July 24th. Please join us for free food, toys, and a lot of talk about APIs and code.
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Upcoming Changes to the API
Jun 25, 2009 — In the next month or so, we will be making some significant changes to NPR.org. Some of these changes are visual, while others are architectural. As a result, there will likely be an impact on the API. That said, we did put in a lot of effort...
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NPR's API Rights Management
Jun 8, 2009 — Rights management is a critical aspect of distribution. As a result, we built a tiered permission scheme and a rights management filtering layer into our API. Find out what is involved in rights management and how NPR addressed this problem.
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