In many parts of Texas, the people love God, country, and football. One community has been facing the issue of football players protesting police brutality during the national anthem.
                    
                                                                                            
                        A tide of plastic waste is contaminating the oceans. And in Southeast Asia, as companies dump new products and packaging on their shores, they're desperate to stop the flow.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
A man imprisoned and tortured in Syria for protesting the regime of Bashar Al-Assad is finally free. Now the most visible witness to Syria's secret system of arrest and torture is determined to bring his captors to justice. He tells his story of survival on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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(Photo: Syria President Bashar al-Assad - Remy De La Mauvinier /AP / via NPR)
The men and women from eight African countries packed into a rubber raft late last month and set off from the Libyan city of Sabratha in the hope of crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
A program at the Department of Veterans Affairs is designed to provide stipends and other forms of support to caregivers of loved ones who have been severely injured in combat. But the V-A has been criticized for removing vets from the program for seemingly arbitrary reasons -- such as not showing "recovery" from permanent injuries or following their care plan to the letter. We'll look at the controversy surrounding the VA caregiver assistance program on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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(Photo: Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters - AgnosticPreachersKid [CC BY-SA 3.0])
U-S immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented factory workers in Mississippi earlier this month. On the next Morning Edition, a young immigrant recalls when his own mother was taken away during a raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant eleven years ago. Plus, Steve Inskeep's latest report from Iran on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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Former President Barack Obama released a video earlier this week urging people to hurry up and shop for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchange.
"This year I'm giving it to you straight," Obama says in the video.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
Across the country, shuttered factories and fossil-fuel plants are reopening as data centers that house high-tech computers. But will those renovations mean new jobs for local workers? We'll take you to upstate New York, where a data center that was once an aluminum plant brings new hope - and fresh concerns on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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(Photo: Victorgrigas [CC BY-SA 3.0])
                    
                                                                                            
                        
Like many musicians, Philadelphia musician Adam Weiner [WEE-ner] has reinvented himself during the pandemic. He debuts a unique Christmas ballad [today/tomorrow morning] as part of the Morning Edition Song Project. Start your day with Morning Edition
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sanaa Abrar for her reaction to President Trump's remarks on border security. Abrar represents United We Dream, an immigrant advocacy organization.
The former secretary of state was having trouble changing the flat, and that's when Anthony Maggert saw him and stopped. Maggert has a prosthetic leg, which did not keep him from helping.
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It has been more than five years since we've said these words. Tiger Woods has won. Yesterday in Atlanta, that's exactly what happened.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
People in Lebanon have been protesting against their government ever since a devastating explosion tore thru the city of Beirut. In the aftermath of a disaster, what comes next for its citizens? Plus, how an open letter to Joe Biden led to his nomination of Kamala Harris on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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                        This summer, musician Katie Sucha will be touring England. And she's scared.
"It really is a serious mental challenge to walk through those doors and get on the plane," she explains. Sucha's fear of flying is so bad that when she was a teacher in Mississippi and wanted to visit her family in Michigan, she'd take a 14-hour bus ride rather than spend two hours in the air.
With new enforcement priorities under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are taking aim at employers that knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants. The most recent — and largest — bust happened at a trailer manufacturing plant in northeast Texas.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
The man who killed more than twenty people in El Paso, Texas this past weekend posted a hate-filled diatribe online, according to police. But as we pick these texts apart, are we actually asking the right questions? Plus, the latest from El Paso and Dayton on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Va., is one of many Jewish congregations across the country that have been helping to resettle refugees in America.
Three years ago, its members agreed to sponsor a Muslim refugee — a single mother named Tilko who fled Iraq with her children and who was originally brought to this country by a Christian charity.
                    
                                                                                            
                        
Following the muddle in the Iowa caucuses, Democrats have moved on to New Hampshire. Which candidates will emerge as the front-runners? - and can the party avoid another vote-counting debacle? We'll try to answer the jumble of questions hanging over the next Democratic presidential contest on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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(Photo: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (center) speaks as fellow candidates (from left), businessman Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, listen on Jan. 14, during a Democratic presidential debate - Patrick Semansky/AP/via NPR)
                    
                                                                                            
                        
Local leaders in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas are calling for change after two mass shootings, and the president addressed the nation to condemn the acts. But what can be done to stop gun violence in America? David Greene is in El Paso to see how the community is coping as the death toll there rises on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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(Photo:Joel Angel Juárez/AFP/Getty Images/via NPR)
                    
                                                                                            
                        In February, Pope Francis acknowledged a longstanding dirty secret in the Roman Catholic Church — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests.
It's an issue that had long been kept under wraps, but in the #MeToo era, a #NunsToo movement has emerged, and now sexual abuse is more widely discussed.
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