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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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Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
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Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
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Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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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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Baseball Hall Of Fame Voters Pick 'None Of The Above' For 2013
Jan 9, 2013 — The Baseball Writers' Association of America's ballot for this year listed 37 players. None of them will be going to the Hall of Fame this year, despite a class of candidates that included Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. Craig Biggio led the voting.
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Prosecutor Accuses Clemens Of 'Deceit,' 'Dishonesty'
Apr 23, 2012 — The retrial of baseball great Roger Clemens began in earnest Monday after a week of jury selection. Prosecutor Steven Durham in his opening statement to the jury said Clemens, unlike other baseball greats who owned up to their mistakes, told lies and "other lies to cover up those lies."
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Steroids, Baseball And Climate Change
Feb 13, 2012 — Why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system.
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Federal Judge Rules Roger Clemens Will Face New Trial
Sep 2, 2011 — Clemens' new trial, which will ask a jury to decide whether the baseball star lied about using steroids, will start April 17, 2012.
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Baseball's Clemens Should Be Tried Again, Prosecutors Argue
Aug 19, 2011 — Prosecutors say they made an honest mistake in showing jurors inadmissible evidence.
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Judge Declares Mistrial In Clemens Perjury Case
Jul 14, 2011 — The perjury trial of Roger Clemens just started Wednesday, but it jerked to a halt today, as the judge in the case declared a mistrial. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled that prosecutors had improperly presented evidence to the jury on the trial's opening day.
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At Barry Bonds' Trial, Prosecution And Defense Close Their Cases
Apr 7, 2011 — "All he had to do was tell the truth" about performance-enhancing drugs, the prosecutor says. But Bonds' lawyer argues the government didn't prove its case and was out to get his client.
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Roger Clemens Pleads 'Not Guilty' To Lying To Congress
Aug 30, 2010 — Roger Clemens Pleads 'Not Guilty' To Lying To Congress
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Barry Bonds Wins Latest Court Round
Jun 11, 2010 — Barry Bonds Wins Latest Court Round
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David Wells Doesn't Do Drugs -- May Drink, Though
May 18, 2009 — Yankees pitcher David Wells has a lot to say.
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