The Obama administration says it remains confident that it will prevail in a series of lawsuits challenging the requirement some religious organization ensure their workers have access to contraceptive coverage under the affordable care acts. As NPRs

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When you play the game Monopoly, you take your chances. You could strike a rich, or you could land in a jail. This man, Kenneth Repke landed in a real jail after what started as a friendly game of Monopoly with his neighbor inside this Fraser town ho

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Russia says it's putting together counter proposals to US plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis. It has been just two and a half weeks since scores of demonstrators were killed around Kiev's Independence Square, and Ukraine's former pr

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At a popular mall in Dothan, Alabama, Santa Claus asked a 33-year-old woman, sitting on his lap, what she wanted for Christmas. She said she wanted him! I couldnt believe it, said Paul Moyer, 65 years old. I figured that I misheard her, so I asked he

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Assault Allegations Aggravate EU Immigration Crisis Europe's immigration crisis has taken a new turn after reports that New Year's attacks on women in Cologne and other cities were organized by immigrant groups. Swedish authorities now have to answer

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For the last week, one of the biggest stars in pop music has been in court. A radio DJ sued Taylor Swift, her mother and her manager for falsely accusing him of assault and getting him fired from his job. Swift is countersuing fo

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We've been hearing a lot lately about sexual assault and harassment, and today we're going to tell you about a group of people that has one of the highest rates of sexual assault of any group in America. And it's hardly talked ab

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Over the past week and a half, we've been airing an NPR investigation that shows people with intellectual disabilities are sexually assaulted at rates seven times that of everyone else. In our series, we have heard from experts an

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Comedian and entertainer Bill Cosby has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GLORIA ALLRED: Bill Cosby, three words for you - guilty, guilty, guilty. CHANG: That was attor

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now, jury selection in the criminal trial of Bill Cosby begins in Pennsylvania today. It's a year and a half since Cosby was charged with felony counts of sexual assault over a 2004 encounter, which Cosby contends

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The fight over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court prompted a lot of discussion in all corners of American life about sexual assault and, specifically, how young men are taught or not taught about consent. A Jewish

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He Witnessed A Rape In 1969. He's Finally Ready To Talk About It MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to return to a difficult and - for some people - a traumatic subject that's been much in the news. We're talking, here, about sexual abuse. We're finall

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Veterans Struggling After Sexual Assault Increasingly Turn To Service Dogs SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Dealing with the effects of sexual assault is a lifelong process that can be filled with, like, psychiatry appointments and medication. As NPR's Adelina Lan

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Mexico's ambassador to the United States says there must be extensive cooperation between the two countries to defeat drug cartels that have killed thousands of people in Mexico's northern border states. The ambassador spoke in Washington days before

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People in the Maldives are voting in a presidential election that international observers and opposition groups fear will not be free or fair. Jill McGivering reports. President Abdulla Yameen is promising further economic development with Chinese ca

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