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On Point with Tom Ashbrook

From NPR and WBUR, On Point is public radio's live morning news program - covering each day's important news developments and conducting conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from all around the world.

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    What Serena Williams — Queen Of Tennis — Means To The Sports World

    Serena Williams. The undisputed queen of tennis, and what she's ...

    Serena Williams. The undisputed queen of tennis, and what she's meant in sports and beyond.

    Sep 4, 2015 Read more
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    Week In The News: Europe's Migrant Crisis, Kentucky Clerk Gets Jail Time, Deflategate

    Migrant crisis in Europe. The Iran deal, cleared. A Kentucky ...

    Migrant crisis in Europe. The Iran deal, cleared. A Kentucky clerk and gay marriage. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

    Sep 4, 2015 Read more
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    Journalists Under Pressure

    Three Vice News journalists arrested in Turkey. A wave of ...

    Three Vice News journalists arrested in Turkey. A wave of journalists in prison. In graves. We'll look at journalists worldwide under pressure.

    Sep 3, 2015 Read more
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    Should The Fed Raise Interest Rates?

    Should the Fed finally raise interest rates? In spite of ...

    Should the Fed finally raise interest rates? In spite of the stock market roller coaster? We'll dig into the Fed weighing the end of free money.

    Sep 3, 2015 Read more
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    Netflix's 'Narcos': The Drug Trade Then And Now

    A new Netflix series "Narcos" takes on the story of ...

    A new Netflix series "Narcos" takes on the story of the rise of the "King of Cocaine" — Pablo Escobar. We'll look at drug trafficking then and now.

    Sep 2, 2015 Read more
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    Martin O'Malley And The Race To 2016

    We talk to Martin O'Malley, former Maryland governor and now ...

    We talk to Martin O'Malley, former Maryland governor and now Democratic candidate for the presidency. He's been tough on Trump – and on his fellow Democrats.

    Sep 2, 2015 Read more
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    Listening Back To Our Conversation With Oliver Sacks

    Oliver Sacks, celebrated neurologist and best-selling author, has died at ...

    Oliver Sacks, celebrated neurologist and best-selling author, has died at 82. We'll listen back to our remarkable 2013 interview with Oliver Sacks on life and aging.

    Sep 1, 2015 Read more
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    Competition For Resources In The Arctic

    The scramble for the Arctic. President Obama's in Alaska. We'll ...

    The scramble for the Arctic. President Obama's in Alaska. We'll look at the stakes.

    Sep 1, 2015 Read more
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    Re-Examining The Legal Definition Of Sexual Assault

    A verdict in the New Hampshire prep school rape trial. ...

    A verdict in the New Hampshire prep school rape trial. And calls for changing sexual assault laws.

    Aug 31, 2015 Read more
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    Looking Past A Shooting At American Gun Culture

    Lessons from the Roanoke TV shootings. We'll look at the ...

    Lessons from the Roanoke TV shootings. We'll look at the way forward with the New York Times' Nick Kristof and other top thinkers.

    Aug 31, 2015 Read more
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