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Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Throughout the program, Marshall Terry and the WFAE News team keep you up to date on news from the Charlotte area and across the Carolinas. At 5:50am, 6:50am, and 8:50am, listeners will also hear the Marketplace Morning Report.
Morning Edition also includes Asian View from NHK in Tokyo at 5:42am, and Sound Beat at 6:42am.
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The DOJ announced it will drop lawsuits against Louisville and Minneapolis that would have required them to address what the Biden administration found to be widespread patterns of police misconduct.
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President Trump meets in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Bilateral relations are at their lowest since the end of apartheid.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jane Bradley of The New York Times about her investigation with Michael Schwirtz into Brazil's unmasking of Russian spies in their midst.
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Kate Messner's new middle grade novel The Trouble With Heroes Is about a boy who gets into trouble with the law. Instead of juvie, he's tasked with hiking all 46 Adirondack peaks.
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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Broadway star Jonathan Groff reflects on what motivated him to come out early in his career.
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The U.S. imports many of its flowers, plants and nursery products from countries like Ecuador, Colombia and Canada. Tariffs may drive up prices. It may mean more opportunity for local flower farmers.
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A decades-old mystery involving Jim Morrison of The Doors has been (somewhat) solved. The singer's bust was stolen from a Paris cemetery in the 1980s. Authorities have found it in a separate probe.
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An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. talks about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Donald Lane, a former Secret Service agent, on what it takes to execute a manhunt and apprehend a fugitive.
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Experts say DOGE should have paid closer attention to the Government Accountability Office, which has long worked to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.