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NPR announced Thursday that Loren Mayor has been promoted to its President of Operations. Mayor was previously the company's Chief Operating Officer.

NPR Promotes COO Loren Mayor To President Of Operations

The promotion reflects the increasingly prominent role that Mayor plays in the company. But it doesn't indicate significant changes to the division of responsibilities of Mayor and CEO Jarl Mohn.

If approved, the agreement would postpone the debate over money for President Trump's border wall until December, when a lame-duck Congress will be in place.

House And Senate Negotiators Strike Deal To Avoid Shutdown Threat

A bipartisan spending deal postpones a fight over money for a border wall before the election. The bill funds about 75 percent of the government, with a stopgap measure for the rest through Dec. 7.

Waves crash underneath the Oceana Pier as the outer bands of Hurricane Florence begin to affect the coast on Thursday in Atlantic Beach, N.C. Coastal cities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are under evacuation orders as the Category 2 hurricane approaches the United States.

Scenes From The Carolina Coast As Hurricane Florence Surges Ashore

A Waffle House near the S.C.-N.C. border briefly closed down under orders from police — a sign of how seriously people are taking Hurricane Florence.

Health insurers who offer Medicare Advantage plans have permission to soon require patients to try less expensive alternatives to some before receiving pricier drugs.

New Medicare Advantage Tool To Control Drug Prices Could Narrow Choices

Federal officials will allow private Medicare insurance plans to require patients who are candidates for certain expensive drugs to try cheaper drugs first.

Sean Penn plays a veteran astronaut who aspires to go to Mars in the Hulu series <em>The First. </em>

'The First' Is A Human Mission To Mars, With A Focus On The Humans

Hulu's new series features Sean Penn as a veteran astronaut facing the personal sacrifice of deep space travel. Critic David Bianculli says the characters are explored just as deeply as outer space.

A man demonstrates outside the Lehman Brothers headquarters Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 in New York. When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had fallen. Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed.
(Mary Altaffer/AP)

The 2008 Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later: What Have We Learned?

It’s been 10 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed and the nightmare of the global financial crisis. The author of the book “Too Big to Fail” takes us back to those frightening days.

A government research project to assess the safety of BPA is beginning to show results.

Government Study Of BPA Backs Its Safety, But Doesn't Settle Debate

The plastic additive BPA got a clean bill of health in a two-year government study involving thousands of rats. But scientists worried about BPA's risks say the study has flaws.

Obama Rallies For Cordray To Reclaim Ohio

Former President Obama is campaigning in east Cleveland on Thursday for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray. Obama is rallying parts of the Democratic base that didn't show up in 2016.

Aretha, Box Tops Among this Year's Memphis Music Hall of Fame Inductees

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame named its 2018 class of inductees on Wednesday, representing a variety of genres and eras in local music. The seven include…

In this Aug. 13, photo, Jany Leveille sits in court during a hearing, in Taos, N.M. Leveille, her partner Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, and three other adults were denied bail by a federal judge who said the New Mexico compound residents posed a threat to the community.

Federal Judge Denies New Mexico Compound Residents Bail

In an hours-long arraignment hearing on Wednesday Magistrate Judge Kirtan Khalsa told the five defendants there was "clear and convincing evidence that you are a danger to the community."

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