The president's visit to the historic site, the pressure of re-creating "Roots", will a Libertarian candidate gain steam heading into the national election?
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In a speech at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial today, President Obama paid homage to the victims of the atomic bomb blast that killed 140,000 people.
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Thousands of delegates for the nation's third largest political party are set to name their presidential nominee. What will this mean for the larger election season?
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• 8:15
In Texas it takes a lot for a program to get rid of a winning coach, but things have gotten so bad at Baylor University that they've finally decided to do just that.
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• 8:48
Every language has exceptions and even exceptions to exceptions. These nuances make it hard for even the most machine translators to keep up.
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The original "Roots" showed audiences 'history, not from the colonizer's point of view...' Director Mario Van Peebles, on how the new series will carry the torch.
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After years of failing to follow through on promises made to Filipino veterans, a new program may offer a modicum of aid to them from their families.
Nearly one in three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan face post-traumatic stress from their military service, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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KPCC's Sanden Totten joined the show to discuss the latest in science news including deep sea creatures, ice ages on planets and more.
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A new study out of the University of Adelaide shows cephalopods, like squid, octopi an cuttlefish, are increasing in the ocean.
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The coast off of Orange County is experiencing an increase in the number of whale sightings this time of year.