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Human Rights Watch is calling on Egypt's president to make public a report that documents police and military abuses against protesters from January 2011 to June 2012. Parts of the report have been leaked to a local newspaper Al Shorouk as well as the British publication The Guardian. In the leaked chapters there are descriptions of police violence and military torture of detainees. While a lot of this is already known about the police and military, the report was referred to the presidency in December and so far no action has been taken. The military this week defended itself, denying any wrongdoing and Egypt's president spoke in solidarity with them.

Author and journalist and NPR reporter, ALAN BERLOW. His new book is "Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros" (Pantheon Books). The book evolves from an investigation into a massacre of a peasant family to a series of interrelated crimes. BERLOW also examines the broader problems facing the Phillipines and the impact of American colonialism and imperialism.

Bucking a national slump in holiday sales, online merchants are celebrating a record year. NPR's John McChesney reports internet retailers have worked out a lot of kinks and are enticing consumers with free shipping promotions and gift pick-up late into Christmas Eve.

An FBI investigation has found that employees of Blackwater USA violated rules governing the use of deadly force in a September shooting incident that killed at least 17 Iraqis. That's according to a report in The New York Times.

Myanmar plans to announce the creation of the largest tiger reserve in the world -- an entire valley nearly the size of Vermont. NPR's Renee Montagne discusses the plan with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz, who helped bring the change.

Legendary CBS journalist Ed Bradley has died of leukemia. The 65-year-old correspondent had been reporting for CBS since 1967, and was a key member of the 60 Minutes reporting team up until just before his death.

By Jacque Dayhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-861964.mp3Western Kentucky – The Kentucky Department of Education has…

Authorities placed the Kentucky state Capitol under lockdown Tuesday morning. The closure followed a police chase of an armed man in the area.

Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.

A report from investigators in the House, due for release Wednesday, is expected to fault all levels of government in the response to Hurricane Katrina. Authors of the report, "A Failure of Initiative," outline 90 serious flaws in the response -- ranging from ineffective leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to inadequate state and local plans for evacuation to a "fog of war" at the White House.