President Trump Criticizes Germany For Pipeline Deal With Russia
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: And for more on that Russian pipeline that President Trump was talking about, we turn now to NPR's Martin Kaste in Berlin. Hey there, Martin....
View ArticleSome Germans Think President Trump Is Affecting Their Domestic Politics
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump is not a popular man in Germany right now. Even before his performance at the NATO summit in Brussels this week, a poll...
View ArticleGerman Soccer Player Says He Quit National Team Because Of Racism
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: One of the stars of Germany's national soccer team has quit. He says he's being made the scapegoat of the team's disappointing performance in...
View ArticleFor Local Cops In Germany, No Talk Of 'Sanctuary Cities'
Three years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country's borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants, the public mood toward those new arrivals has soured. In more conservative parts of...
View ArticleThe Site Of The Berlin Airlift Now Serves As Refugee Shelter And Big Open Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHdB1vJNsg Berlin's Tempelhof Field used to be a massive airport. It's famous as the site of the Berlin airlift — the effort in 1948-49 to keep West Berlin fed and...
View ArticleThe Politics Of Bump Stocks, 1 Year After Las Vegas Shooting
Experienced gun hobbyists recognized the sound right away. "I knew for a fact it was a bump stock as soon as I heard the video," says Jeff LaCroix. He's a recreational shooter in Louisiana. He says the...
View ArticleWhat We Know About Cesar Sayoc, The Man Charged In The Suspicious Packages Case
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Four days since suspicious packages addressed to prominent Democrats began showing up around the country, authorities today arrested a...
View ArticleThe Latest On The Deadly Shooting In Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: Now to Southern California, where a shooting late last night left 12 victims and the gunman dead. The shooting took place at a bar in Thousand...
View ArticleInvestigators Still Looking For A Motive Behind Thousand Oaks Shooting
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Investigators probing this week's shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., still haven't found signs of a motive. The shooter was a...
View ArticleFacebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk
A year ago, Facebook started using artificial intelligence to scan people's accounts for danger signs of imminent self-harm. Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis is pleased with the results so...
View ArticleAmerica's Growing Cop Shortage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W660L0VeLk0 It's a fall Monday morning in New Haven, Conn., and Officer Christian Bruckhart has lost track of how many calls he has had. He thinks it has been six. Maybe...
View ArticleWolves Are Back In Germany, But Not Always Welcome
Wolves are making a big comeback in Germany, which is making some Germans uneasy. Farmers and hunters drove the species out of the country over 150 years ago, but conditions for wolves became more...
View ArticleHow The Government Shutdown Is Affecting The Federal Bureau Of Prisons
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Some federal workers are suing over the government shutdown, saying they're being illegally forced to work without pay. The American...
View ArticleSome Sheriffs In Rural Washington Refuse To Enforce New Gun Law
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Police can exercise discretion about which laws to enforce, like ignoring a jaywalker while chasing a drunk driver. But a group of rural...
View ArticleWhen Sheriffs Won't Enforce The Law
Last fall, voters in Washington state approved a package of firearms restrictions, generally called I-1639 . It raises the minimum age for buying semi-automatic rifles, tightens background checks and...
View ArticleHouse Passes Second Gun Background Check Bill In As Many Days
The Democratic-led House Thursday approved another piece of legislation to broaden federal gun-control legislation. The bill gives the FBI more time to do background checks on gun purchasers. It comes...
View ArticleInvestigators Probe Software's Role In Deadly Boeing 737 Max Crashes
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The investigation of two Boeing plane crashes points, for the moment, at software. There's evidence that a program called MCAS pointed the...
View ArticleAfter Boeing Crashes, New Attention On The Potential Flaws Of Software
Investigations into the causes of the two Boeing 737 Max crashes, in Indonesia and Ethiopia, have focused on software — and the possibility that it was autonomously pointing the planes' noses downward,...
View ArticleDefining What's Excessive In Police Property Seizures Remains Tricky
Tyson Timbs won his Supreme Court case in February, but he still doesn't have his Land Rover. "I want my truck back. I've always wanted it back," says Timbs, whose Land Rover was seized by police in...
View ArticleHow Data Analysis Is Driving Policing
Police have always relied on data — whether push pins tracking crimes on a map, mug shot cards, or intelligence files on repeat offenders. The problem with all that information is that it has...
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