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  • Bradley Manning Had Long Been Plagued By Mental Health Issues
    Sentencing began Wednesday in the trial of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning. Journalist Steve Fishman wrote an in-depth profile of Manning for New York Magazine. He speaks to Melissa Block about the famed Wikileaker who faces years in prison.
  • NSA Whistleblower Revealed
    Edward Snowden, 29, a contractor for the National Security Agency, says he's behind the leak of information on the NSA's surveillance program. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who broke the story of the leak and of Snowden's identity, offers his insight.
  • More than 40 years ago, the EPA banned oil companies from releasing wastewater into the environment, but made an exception for the arid West. If livestock and wildlife can use the water, companies can release it. Cows like these grazing near a stream of waste on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are supposedly the reason the EPA lets oil companies release their waste into the environment.
    EPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming
    The environmental agency has proposed permits that would allow oil companies to continue releasing contaminated wastewater onto the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. NPR found last year that the EPA has been allowing oil companies to send so much wastewater onto dry land that it was creating raging streams.
  • A Wintry Mix: Alan Cheuse Selects The Season's Best
    Critic Alan Cheuse maps out a winter wonderland of fiction and poetry — from ancient Greece to the near-future visions of Walter Mosley, a selection of the best books to give and receive this holiday season. Cheuse says these five books strike the perfect balance between lyricism and narrative.
  • A health worker collects pigeons from a trap at People's Square in Shanghai, China, earlier this month. So far, workers have tested more than 48,000 animals for the H7N9 flu virus.
    With Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible'
    An international team of disease detectives are in China to investigate an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, H7N9. The biggest puzzle right now is where these infections are coming from, as testing poultry has turned up very few infected birds.
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: The Florida Games, Baby's First LP and A Dingo Ate My Google.
  • Soldiers assigned to the 120th Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, participate in desert training at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in 2009.
    Training For An Uncertain Military Future In The Calif. Desert
    The military's training center at Fort Irwin in California is complete with mock Middle Eastern villages. But as the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan winds down, how will this facility change?
  • Digging Out From The Snow Is Slow-Going In Buffalo
    Melissa Block talks to Mark Poloncarz, the Erie County Executive, about the snow situation in his area.
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks...Rated PG for Playground, Doughloft, Fin Mail
  • American Woman And Her Family Released From Captivity In Afghanistan
    After being held for five years by a militant network, American Caitlan Coleman and her family have been freed. Journalist Asad Hashim speaks about this development with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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