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  • Nancy Barnes, NPR's newsroom leader, announced her forthcoming departure as the network moves to create a new executive to oversee both the news and programming divisions.
  • Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.
  • Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan and presidential adviser Tim Wu have advocated for new rules to curb the power of the tech giants.
  • The Trump campaign is naming Breitbart News' Stephen Bannon as chief executive, and is also promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. Paul Manafort will stay on as campaign chairman.
  • Last week, BuzzFeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith defended his organization's decision to publish the Russia dossier. He talks to NPR's Michel Martin about how the move changed BuzzFeed's approach to journalism.
  • The International Court of Justice does not have the power to enforce its own rulings, but it does add to the pressure that Israel feels internationally and domestically to end the war in Gaza.
  • The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.
  • With few options for health care in their rural community, a Tennessee couple's experience with one outrageous bill could have led to a deadly delay when they needed help the most.
  • Efforts to inundate local elections officials with records requests only weeks before we go to the polls: we ask the state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Michael Adams, what’s going on? | Episode 2 of our election-season series defining the jobs of local offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. | How the region’s largest school district is faring as pandemic effects linger: education contributor Brigitte Blom speaks with Fayette County Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins. | Details of a trio of upcoming events: the 100th anniversary of Lexington’s historic Kentucky Theater; Tree Week in Lexington and other communities in the region; the 49th annual Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College.
  • Efforts to inundate local elections officials with records requests only weeks before we go to the polls: we ask the state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Michael Adams, what’s going on? | Episode 2 of our election-season series defining the jobs of local offices on the Nov. 8 ballot. | How the region’s largest school district is faring as pandemic effects linger: education contributor Brigitte Blom speaks with Fayette County Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins. | Details of a trio of upcoming events: the 100th anniversary of Lexington’s historic Kentucky Theater; Tree Week in Lexington and other communities in the region; the 49th annual Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College.
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