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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. People who call themselves the Islamic State have released a video showing them killing a British man.
Islamic State Beheads British Aid Worker, Makes New Threat
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California Proposition Re-evaluates Approach To Crime
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California, which once led the way in tougher punishments for crime, may now lead the way back. Twenty years ago, California passed the Three Strikes, You're Out law.
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Is 'Leaning In' The Only Formula For Women's Success In Science?
Don't wait to be invited or encouraged to make a career in science, engineering or technology, Frances Arnold advises the young women she teaches at the California Institute of Technology. If you're a scientist, she says, you should know how to solve a problem.
"Bemoaning your fate is not going to solve the problem," she says.
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Ebola Gatekeeper: 'When The Tears Stop, You Continue The Work'
Wencke Petersen came to Liberia in late August to do what she normally does for Doctors Without Borders in hotspots all over the world — manage supplies.
But the supplies she was meant to organize hadn't arrived yet. So she was asked to help with another job: standing at the main gate of the walled-in compound, turning people away when the unit was full.
For five weeks, she gave people the bad news.
Petersen says there are some people she will never forget — like the man who sat in the rain all day, waiting. "We had no space — he just asked for a place to lie down," she says.
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As Ebola Pingpongs In Liberia, Cases Disappear Into The Jungle
There's a new phase of Ebola in Liberia. Epidemiologists call it pingponging.
Back in March, the disease was found in the rural areas. Then as people came to the capital to seek care, it started growing exponentially there. Now, some sick people are going back to their villages, and the disease has pingponged to the rural areas again.
So that's where we're headed — into the hot, thick jungle of Liberia to investigate a new Ebola hotspot.
Our day with the team of Ebola investigators starts at 3 a.m.
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Ebola Is Changing Course In Liberia. Will The U.S. Military Adapt?
The Ebola outbreak started in rural areas, but by June it had reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia.
By August, the number of people contracting the Ebola virus in the country was doubling every week. The Liberian government and aid workers begged for help.
Enter the U.S. military, who along with other U.S. agencies had a clear plan in mid-September to build more Ebola treatment units, or ETUs. At least one would be built in the major town of each of Liberia's 15 counties.
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Campaign Rallies Resume In Liberia, Raising Uncertainty Over Ebola Risk
In Liberia, the number of new cases of Ebola is going down, but the risk has not been eliminated. To help contain the disease, schools are set to be closed until March.
But a national Senate election, which was postponed once, is now set for mid-December. That means campaigning — which means crowds.
Back in August and September, when a hundred people were getting Ebola a day, Monrovia was a ghost town. Ebola treatment units were full and regular hospitals were closed. Some people died in the streets.
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One Village's Story: How Ebola Began And How It Ends
There's a clearing in the jungle in central Liberia that now serves as an Ebola burial ground. Every day, a woman who works as a nurse in the nearby Ebola treatment unit, or ETU, changes from her scrubs into traditional dress, walks into that clearing and sings a song of mourning.
The song is meant to prepare the space for the dead. There is a burial every day. So far, nearly 100 people have been buried in this clearing.
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Another Shooting Puts Albuquerque Police Back In The Spotlight
On Tuesday night, officers shot and killed a suspect who they say fired at them. Earlier this week, the county district attorney said she would seek murder charges against two other officers in the shooting of a homeless man last year.
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Saudi King Abdullah, Who Laid Foundation For Reform, Dies
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has died. He was 90 and had been hospitalized for a lung infection.
Abdullah was born before Saudi Arabia was even a country. It was the early 1920s, and his father, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, set out to conquer the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Family's Long Fight With Pentagon Returns Name To Unknown Soldier
The remains of a World War II soldier who died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines — and the subject of a joint NPR/ProPublica investigation last year — have been identified as Pvt. Arthur "Bud" Kelder. His identification came after a long legal battle between his family and the Pentagon.
Kelder, who enlisted in the Army in 1941, served as a dental assistant in Manila, and then ended up on the Bataan Peninsula.
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Quiz Time! Take A Guess At These Presidential Tech Firsts
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Texas Bikers Arrested After Waco Shootout Say They Are Innocent
In May, a fight between two rival motorcycle clubs turned into a bloodbath in Waco, Texas. Nine people were shot dead, and at least20 were injured.
In the end, 177 people were arrested and jailed on charges of engaging in organized crime.
But many of them say they had nothing to do with these "outlaw" motorcycle clubs — and nothing to do with the violence.
Among them are Walt and Ester Weaver.
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The Surreal Reasons Girls Are Disappearing In El Salvador: #15Girls
In many countries, the decisions teens make at 15 can determine the rest of their lives. But, often, girls don't have much say — parents, culture and tradition decide for them. In a new series, #15Girls, NPR explores the lives of 15-year-old girls who are seeking to take control and change their fate. Warning: Some of the depictions and images in this story are graphic.
It's our first morning in El Salvador's capital.
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Kevin McCarthy Could Be The Next Speaker. Is He Still A 'Bakersfield Boy'?
Republicans in the U.S. House will take an initial vote Thursday on who they think should replace John Boehner as speaker of the House.
Utah Rep.
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California Law Adds New Twist To Abortion, Religious Freedom Debate
The latest front in the debate over religious freedom is all about an 8 1/2-by-11-inch piece of paper.
This particular piece of paper is a notice — one the state of California will soon require to be posted in places known as crisis pregnancy centers.
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Deaths Persist In Youth And Student Football Despite Safety Efforts
We know more than ever about concussions, the permanent brain damage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the other physical risks of football.
Yet so far this year, at least 19 students have died playing football, according to the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research.
Though participation is slowly declining, football is still the country's most popular high school sport. Over a million high schoolers played last season.
Researchers at UNC have been tracking football-related deaths since the 1960s.
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'We All Have To Do Something': Nina Jacobson On Diversifying Hollywood
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Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness By 91 Percent. Here's How.
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There's Shelter, And Then There's Housing. Utah Claims Muted Victory
Utah has housed nearly all of its chronically homeless people — those who have a disabling condition, and who have been homeless for more than a year, or four times in the past three years. These days, there are fewer than 200.
But chronic homelessness is just a small part of a major problem.
An additional 14,000 people in Utah experienced homelessness this year.
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