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  • U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba authored the investigative report about abuses of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of American soldiers. His report has proved embarrassing to the Pentagon and the White House. But Taguba, the second-highest ranking Filipino-American officer in the U.S. Army, is a source of pride to the Filipino-American community. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.
  • Host Bob Edwards talks with Harvard Professor Robert Putnam and Bush advisor Stephen Goldsmith about a new study which looks at the causes and some solutions to community alienation. The report is being released today by the Saguaro Seminar. Goldsmith and Putnam agree the report contains ways citizens and the government can work together to create a stronger sense of community. (7:03)To read the Better Together report go to www.bettertogether.org.
  • A report released Friday by the Inspector General of the Justice Department chides the FBI for firing translator Sibell Edmonds. Edmonds said co-workers performed poor translations and may have been involved in espionage. The report says the FBI never adequately investigated the translator's claims, and that she was fired in large part because of her efforts to blow the whistle. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.
  • A Scottish sports reporter recorded a soccer team press conference using his phone. Nice idea, but inevitably the reporter's phone rang. The soccer team manager picked it up. It was the reporter's wife calling.
  • Former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before two Congressional committees on Wednesday, publicly answering questions about his investigation and report for the first time.
  • The usual deflection tactics — releasing unrelated information, blaming Democrats and the media — haven't worked with this controversy.
  • According to Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Barry, hundreds of justifiable homicides by police have gone uncounted in national statistics maintained by the FBI. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Barry about his report.
  • The annual report of Reporters Without Borders finds that more journalists have been killed in Iraq since March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam. Reporters have become targets in Iraq in marked contrast with reporters' experiences during the war in Vietnam.
  • Analysis explores the relationship among college football, binge drinking and sexual violence on campus. It suggests that reports of rape increase 41 percent on college football home games.
  • Murray State University released their 2018 campus crime statistics Thursday as part of the Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report for 2019.The…
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