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She became a prominent figure calling for an end to police brutality after New York City officers put her father in a fatal chokehold. She suffered brain damage following a heart attack. (Image credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2zPSfT5 December 30, 2017 at 06:58PM

As 2017 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of the year's most important stories, as told through powerful images from around the world. (Image credit: Tommy Trenchard) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2Ct3d48 December 30, 2017 at 05:00PM

A Paris museum is showing the first major posthumous exhibit of work by the great photographer. As Sidibe himself once said, "I think photos are the best way of living a long time after you die." (Image credit: Malick Sidibé/Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2C0od13 December 30, 2017 at 04:00PM

Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the same: "Health care is a right, not a privilege." (Image credit: Courtesy of Gene Anthony/David Smith Archives) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2Ccp7eR December 30, 2017 at 03:00PM

From so-called "bathroom bills" to a teen wrestling champion, 2017 saw transgender rights surge to the forefront of public consciousness. (Image credit: Steve Helber/AP) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2lw6KGu December 30, 2017 at 02:00PM

An LGBT activist says the Trump administration has waved "the white flag," dropping an appeal of court rulings blocking a ban on transgender troops. (Image credit: Carlos Barria/Reuters) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2lmv3HM December 30, 2017 at 10:43AM

The investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to the Trump campaign was chosen as the top political story of 2017, narrowly beating out the fallout from sexual harassment. (Image credit: Domenico Montanaro/NPR) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2pX7Xw8 December 30, 2017 at 02:52AM

President Trump sat down with the Times for a wide-ranging impromptu interview. NPR's editors and reporters have annotated Trump's claims. (Image credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) News : NPR http://ift.tt/2ls4cJz December 30, 2017 at 02:35AM

Every new year the British monarch recognizes people who have made a contribution to public life in the U.K. While the "New Year's Honors List" usually includes members of the political, social and economic elite, the majority of those honored are ordinary people who have helped others in their daily lives. News : NPR http://ift.tt/2BTjheq December 30, 2017 at 01:49AM

Apple is doing damage control after iPhone owners expressed outrage when the company admitted to intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve battery life. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Will Oremus, who is covering the story for Slate, now that Apple has put out an unsigned apology. News : NPR http://ift.tt/2Ck4wEB December 30, 2017 at 01:49AM

Last January, NPR's Ari Shapiro went on a road trip to talk with voters in the days leading up to the inauguration of President Trump. We check back in with one of the people we met — strawberry farmer Chuck Wooten, who voted for President Trump. News : NPR http://ift.tt/2Eekm1J December 30, 2017 at 01:49AM

When is the best time to exercise or do creative work? Research on the science of timing has answers.WSJ.com: What's News US http://ift.tt/2Cj8GNk December 30, 2017 at 07:43AM

George Papadopoulos got drunk in May 2016 and told an Australian diplomat the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. A former Trump aide’s drunk bragging to an Australian diplomat may have kicked off the entire Russia investigation, according to a new report in The New York Times . On Saturday, the paper reported that George Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had political dirt on Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, after a night of heavy drinking in May 2016. Less than a month earlier, he had been told that Russia had emails that would embarrass the former Secretary of State. That information came courtesy of Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor with contacts in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in April 2016, told Papadopoulos he’d learned the Russians had “ dirt ” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” When leaked Democratic emails began ap...

Her father's death by NYPD chokehold made her an activist. Activist Erica Garner, a vocal activist and organizer within the Black Lives Matter movement, has died. She was 27. After suffering a heart attack last weekend, Garner had been hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma. She went into cardiac arrest after an asthma episode, her mother, Esaw Snipes, told the New York Times . It was Garner’s second heart attack. Her official Twitter account , which has posted updates on her condition throughout the week, confirmed her death on Saturday morning. Garner was the daughter of NYPD chokehold victim Eric Garner, whose death fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Garner emerged as a prominent activist after her father, Eric Garner, was killed during an encounter with the New York Police Department in July 2014. He was confronted by police officers on a Staten Island street corner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed Garn...

Even as president, Trump keeps up on how his Washington, DC hotel is doing. President Donald Trump’s isn’t so separate from his businesses as he would like the public to think. Throughout his campaign and through his first few months as president, Trump has said he would distance himself from his Trump Organization and hand it over to his sons in lieu of divesting entirely, which ethics experts say he should. They fear that otherwise he will use the presidency for his own personal gain or that his policies will be influenced by his business interests. As far as the president flagship hotel in Washington, DC goes, Trump is “definitely still involved,” according to an email sent by the hotel’s director of revenue management first reported by the Daily Beast . On Friday, that site published a September 12th email from Jeng Chi Hung, the director of revenue management for the Trump International Hotel in Washington. In it he wrote that he met with Trump, who asked specific questions a...

Signs abound that his economic isolation campaign is failing. As 2017 comes to a close, President Donald Trump’s strategy for dealing with North Korea is in shambles. Trump has sought to rein in North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs this year by crippling its economy, starving its weapons program, and hopefully forcing it to the negotiating table. He pushed the international community to cut off trade with North Korea and pressured China in particular — North Korea’s closest ally and trade partner — to sever economic ties with the hermit kingdom. But recent reports indicate that China , Russia , and even close US allies like Germany have been quietly trading with North Korea anyway, keeping its economy afloat in the face of harsh international sanctions . And North Korea today is significantly closer to being able to deliver a nuclear bomb to the US mainland than it was when Trump came into office one year ago. Trump’s economic isolation campaign doesn’t seem to b...

The president tepidly supported the Russia investigation — but that support may not last forever. President Donald Trump has an end of year message for the conservatives who want him to fire special counsel Robert Mueller: The former FBI chief is safe, at least for now. That’s one of the biggest takeaways from the president’s interview with the New York Times’s Michael Schmidt on Thursday in which Trump said he feels confident that the special counsel probing the Trump team’s possible collusion with Russia will ultimately treat him “fairly.” Trump continues to insist that there was no collusion and that he, personally, did nothing wrong. Trump’s comments are a potential setback for anti-Mueller conservatives in and out of government who’ve spent much of 2017 attacking the probe and the integrity of the former FBI chief himself. In Congress and on Fox News, they routinely call for Mueller’s ouster and even try to discredit members of the special counsel’s team for perceived bias a...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Street protests hit Iran for a third day running on Saturday, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings, and a social media report said two demonstrators had been shot dead in a provincial town. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2q1pOC5 December 31, 2017 at 11:33AM

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2q5TSwA December 31, 2017 at 11:25AM

(Reuters) - A 25-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested in the city on suspicion of making a hoax phone call that led a police officer in Kansas to kill an unarmed man at a home where the caller said hostages were being held, authorities said on Saturday. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2CeJ30U December 30, 2017 at 11:47PM

(Reuters) - Erica Garner, the daughter of a New York man whose death during an attempted arrest helped spark the “Black Lives Matter” movement against police brutality, died on Saturday, a posting on her official Twitter account showed. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2DBxhcW December 31, 2017 at 12:04AM

(Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather will usher in the new year for much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains this weekend, bringing record low temperatures to the Midwest, making travel difficult and putting a chill on New Year's Eve celebrations. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2Cr8Src December 31, 2017 at 06:09AM

(Reuters) - No Powerball tickets matched all six numbers for Saturday night's $384 million grand prize drawing, sending next week's jackpot in the United States surging to $440 million, lottery officials said. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2Cpmt4K December 31, 2017 at 11:12AM

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - A government investigator into a blaze that led to the deaths of 37 staff at the southern Philippines offices of an American market research firm says there are indications of fire safety lapses that may have contributed to the tragedy. Reuters: Top News http://ift.tt/2CtpnTO December 31, 2017 at 07:56AM