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AP Case Adds To Obama Team's Tough Record On Leaks
May 17, 2013 | NPR · His administration has prosecuted six people for giving reporters information about secret national security operations — twice as many cases as all previous presidents combined. Amid criticism from First Amendment advocates, the White House insists it values both press freedoms and national security.
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Weighing Freedom Of The Press Against Public Safety
May 17, 2013 | NPR · The Justice Department has been scrutinized this week for secretly obtaining phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors while investigating the disclosure of a CIA operation to thwart a terrorist attack. Steve Inskeep talks to Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment lawyer, about how the Constitution and the law treat press freedom.
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Select Young Afghans Chosen As Commandoes In Training
May 17, 2013 | NPR · From the Afghan capital Kabul, Morning Edition's Renee Montagne talks to Gen, Joseph Dunford, the commander of all U.S. and international forces there. They discuss the challenges of the current situation on the ground, and look ahead to the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014.
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Alzheimer's Cases Rise, But Hope Remains
May 18, 2013 | NPR · More than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's disease, and the number is only going to increase — in part, due to aging baby boomers. But researchers say increased awareness and early detection is helping patients live with the disease.
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Week In News: A Rough Week For The White House
May 18, 2013 | NPR · With the White House embroiled in three concurrent scandals this week, Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic, about the way forward for the president and for Congress, with recent history as their guide.
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Internships: Low-Paid, Unpaid Or Just Plain Illegal?
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Fed up with working for free, some interns are suing their employers. Last week, a judge ruled that interns could not sue the Hearst Corp. as a class action, which could be a legal setback for young workers tired of exploitative unpaid internships.
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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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Stephen Colbert Talks To Aliens
Jul 16, 2012 — Colbert on aliens.
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Nancy Pelosi 'Slams' Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC In 'Ad' For DISCLOSE Act
Feb 10, 2012 — House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi turned the tables on Stephen Colbert with a faux political ad on YouTube that calls for stopping the comedian and his superPAC by passing a bill that would that would force corporate campaign donors to reveal themselves.
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Campaign Finance Reports Show Ups And Downs For Candidates, SuperPACs
Jan 31, 2012 — A new disclosure report documents how Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry lost his fundraising base. Donors gave up long before Perry dropped out two weeks ago.
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Herman Cain Gets 'A Colbert Bump' In South Carolina
Jan 21, 2012 — Could Herman Cain's one percent of the South Carolina vote be thanks to a late-breaking endorsement by Comedy Central comedian Stephen Colbert?
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'Rock Me Like A Herman Cain': Colbert And Cain Poke Fun At ... Everything
Jan 20, 2012 — In South Carolina, comedian Stephen Colbert and former GOP candidate Herman Cain joined forces at an event dubbed the "Rock Me Like a Herman Cain: South Cain-olina Primary Rally."
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The Cain Train Is Back On Track In S.C., With Colbert As Conductor
Jan 19, 2012 — The former presidential hopeful has the help of comedian Stephen Colbert and his superPAC Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. A poll paid by his PAC found 18 percent in South Carolina are "kinda somewhat likely" to vote for Herman Cain.
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Stephen Colbert Spoofs Herman Cain's Strange 'Smoking' Ad
Oct 26, 2011 — Stephen Colbert had some fun with the absurd Herman Cain ad which concludes with the campaign's chief of staff Mark Block smoking and the candidate's slow-motion smile.
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School Lunch Potato Fight Gets The Colbert Treatment
Oct 19, 2011 — A few hours after the Senate reached a deal on potatoes in schools, comedian Stephen Colbert took to the airwaves to display what sounded like some long-repressed middle school angst over being separated from his beloved 'tots.'
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Stephen Colbert Gets His Super Pac, With Conditions
Jun 30, 2011 — Stephen Colbert had done something remarkable. By turning an element of the nation's campaign finance system into a running joke, he's made many people really pay attention to it for the first time.
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Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Ridicule Sen. Kyl On Planned Parenthood
Apr 12, 2011 — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have taken after Sen. Jon Kyl for his wild misstatement that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's services are abortion when in fact it's only three percent. And they're having even more fun with his attempt to revise and extend his remark.
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