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Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

In-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hear two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.Melissa Block and Robert Siegel

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The Record
4:48 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop, Parenting And Honoring The Old School

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Talib Kweli's new album is titled Prisoner of Conscious.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

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Explosions At Boston Marathon
4:26 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Boston Response Praised, But Intelligence-Sharing Questioned

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First responders aid injured people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon after the bombing on April 15.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

In the days since the Boston Marathon bombings, local law enforcement officials have been given high marks for their response to the attack and the coordination among numerous federal, state and local agencies involved.

But at the same time, questions are being raised about the coordination among federal agencies handling intelligence they had about the suspects in the months before the attack.

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Code Switch
4:03 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

'Yo' Said What?

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By Rebecca Hersher

Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

The Code Switch team loves thinking, talking and hearing about language and linguistics — see our launch essay, "When Our Kids Own America," and "How Code-Switching Explains The World." So we wanted to share this report from NPR's Arts Desk that's about the use of "yo" as a gender-neutral pronoun.

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World
3:37 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

As Myanmar Reforms, Old Tensions Rise To The Surface

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A Myanmarese girl carries away a tin roof in Meiktila, Myanmar. Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March destroyed large areas of the town and left thousands of Muslims homeless.
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A boy shows the torn pages of a Quran at his home after sectarian violence spread through Zeegone, about 90 miles north of Yangon, in late March. More than 100 people were killed in similar incidents in the country's west last year.
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Myanmarese look for anything to salvage from the destruction in Meiktila. Local media reports say the violence began over a dispute involving a Buddhist couple who tried to sell a hairpin to the Muslim owners of a jewelry store.
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Men wait by an officer near their destroyed home. U Win Htein, who represents Meiktila in Parliament, says armed mobs initially prevented police and firefighters from approaching burning buildings. The crowds let them pass, he says, only after Buddhist monks climbed onto the fire engines.
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A man walks through town in April. While Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, declared a state of emergency during the riots, 1,500 homes had been destroyed by the time the violence stopped.
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A Myanmarese girl carries away a burned tin roof from ruins in Meiktila, Myanmar. Sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left more than 40 people dead, with large areas of the town completely destroyed by fires and looting.
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Vijay Nambiar (left), special adviser to the United Nations secretary-general, talks with a Muslim man at a temporary camp for displaced people in Meiktila in March. Muslims account for about one-third of the town's 10,000 residents; many are now homeless.
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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire during the riots in Meiktila in March. More than 40 people died during three days of violence in the town.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

The town of Meiktila in central Myanmar presents a tranquil scene on a hot April day: A woman presses juice from sugar cane while customers loll around in the midday heat. The town is right in the center of the country, on a broad and arid plain where white cows graze among palm trees and pointy pagodas. It's a bustling trading post on the road between the capital, Naypyidaw, and the country's second-largest city, Mandalay.

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It's All Politics
3:37 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

How Obama's Response To Terrorism Has Shifted

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President Obama makes a statement in the White House briefing room just a few hours after the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 3:57 pm

President Obama's time in office has not been defined by terrorism as President George W. Bush's was. Yet incidents like the one in Boston have been a regular, painful through line of his presidency.

When a new administration walks into the White House, nobody provides a handbook on how to respond to a terrorist attack. So the Obama administration has been on a steady learning curve.

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