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The show draws on reporting from correspondents based across the globe, plus producers and reporters in locations in the United States. This reporting is supplemented by NPR Member Station reporters across the country as well as independent producers and reporters throughout the public radio system.
Morning Edition on Alabama Public Radio also features:
BBC Topline — 5:15 a.m. every weekday. Topline provides a 90-second snapshot of the world’s most important unfolding stories.
Marketplace Morning Report — 5:50 a.m. and 8:50 a.m. every weekday. Hear the latest on markets, money, jobs and innovation.
Don Noble Book Reviews — 7: 45 a.m. every Monday. Host Don Noble reviews books written by Alabama authors.
StoryCorps — 7:45 a.m. every Tuesday. Recordings and collections of everyday stories from everyday people. Excerpts are selected and produced by Alabama Public Radio.
Keepin' It Real — 7: 45 a.m. every Friday. Host Cam Marston brings us weekly commentaries (opinion pieces) on the world he observes as it goes on around him.
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An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces the origins back to a fight over who invented the sewing machine.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep meets the National Trust's Alison Hoagland {HOHG-lund} near the White House to talk about her role in challenging the construction of President Trump's ballroom complex.
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How expensive is it to make an easter basket this year? NPR went to two stores in the D.C. area to find out.
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Foreign ministers from more than 40 countries meet virtually to discuss President Trump's request for help in ensuring shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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NPR's A Martinez asks Dan Baer, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, about the Trump administration's recent rhetoric around NATO.
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For StoryCorps, a couple of park rangers in Philadelphia recall a legendary April Fools' prank from 30 years ago.
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The blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is affecting not only oil, but the global helium supply.
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The suits are the most ambitious effort to date that the Trump administration has gone to try to override state laws and set the rules for the fast-growing and increasingly divisive betting industry. -
Some 20,000 seafarers are trapped in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz; the UN says its trying to extricate them.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks retired Rear Admiral and former national security communications adviser John Kirby about President Trump's address on the war with Iran.
