NPR 2008-04-26

After an eight-week trial before a judge in Queens, New York, three detectives accused in the killing of Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets were acquitted of all charges today. Bell had left a strip club after a bachelor party before his wedding when

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Meeting with his economic advisors and others at the White House today, President Barack Obama said even with the economic challenges facing the nation, he plans to cut the nations budget deficit by half by the end of his first term in office. Presi

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Half dozen Republicans joining the all voting Senate Democrats this evening to fill a filibuster measure that without law work place discrimination on the basis of sexual identity or orientation. NPRs David Welna explains passage of employments non-d

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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the attack last week on a US consulate in Libya was spontaneous. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that appears at odds with what Libyan officials are saying. Libya's president has told NPR that al-Qaeda was

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