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10:13 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Could Romney Repeal The Health Law? It Wouldn't Be Easy

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court ruling on health care in Washington on June 28.
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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 12:41 pm

You can barely listen to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney make a speech or give an interview without hearing some variation of this vow:

"On Day 1 of my administration, I'll direct the secretary of Health and Human Services to grant a waiver from Obamacare to all 50 states. And then I'll go about getting it repealed," he told Newsmax TV in September 2011.

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U.S.
10:02 am
Tue October 30, 2012

East Coast Reeling After Hurricane Sandy

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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 12:20 pm

For an update on superstorm Sandy's impact on the East Coast of the U.S., Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep speak with NPR reporters Joel Rose, Elizabeth Shogren, Jim Zarroli, and Zoe Chace.

Election 2012
10:02 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Obama Campaign Slams Romney's Jeep Ad

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A worker installs carpet into a Jeep Liberty at the Toledo Assembly Complex in Toledo, Ohio, in 2011.
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Originally published on Fri November 2, 2012 6:51 pm

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Author Interviews
9:59 am
Tue October 30, 2012

'Sutton': America's 1920s, Bank-Robbing 'Robin Hood'

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J.R. Moehringer is the best-selling author of The Tender Bar. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his work at the Los Angeles Times.
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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 3:35 pm

This interview was originally broadcast on Sept. 26, 2012.

After the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer was so angry at banks, he says, he decided to write about the people who rob them — in the form of fiction, since he's not an economist.

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The Two-Way
9:45 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Sandy Deals New York City Flooding, Fire and Blackouts

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In New York City's financial district, cars floated in a flooded subterranean basement a day after Hurricane Sandy tore across the East Coast.
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Originally published on Tue October 30, 2012 3:27 pm

People across the New York metropolitan area confronted scenes of devastation from Superstorm Sandy on Tuesday: widespread flooding, power and transportation outages and a wind-swept fire that tore through dozens of houses in the borough of Queens.

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