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  • Pentagon Rhetoric Belies the Reality in Iraq
    U.S. forces are fighting a two-front war with Sunni and Shiite Muslim insurgents and the death toll continues to rise. But there is an increasingly sharp contrast between the official Pentagon take on security and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and the reality on the ground. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.
  • President Obama takes the stage at the University at Buffalo on Thursday.
    Polite Reception For Obama College Cost Plan Belies Hurdles
    President Obama's big idea of linking federal financial aid to a new college ratings system — based on metrics like student debt levels — would require congressional action. That means it would have to make it through the GOP-led House, where Obama's initiatives don't have a great track record.
  • Drugmakers' low U.S. taxes belie their high sales
    Most of the largest pharmaceutical companies report losing money in the United States, despite the majority of their sales coming from Americans. The result is lower U.S. taxes for the companies.
  • Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel poses for photos, in Los Angeles, last year. The company has come under fire for violating promises to delete customer data.
    Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Privacy Breach
    The messaging service promised users that their photos and video would "disappear forever" after being sent, but the FTC says the company saved email addresses and phone numbers.
  • Three high school students in Oakland, Calif., swap photos using Snapchat.
    Teens Dig Digital Privacy, If Snapchat Is Any Indication
    The track record of products designed for digital privacy has been abysmal — at least until recently. Snapchat, wildly popular among teens, is changing assumptions about young people's desire for digital privacy. But it's not clear whether the trend will stick.
  • The logo and a page of mobile app "Snapchat" are displayed on tablets. Hackers broke into Snapchat, the popular mobile app, accessing the phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million users and publishing them online.
    Alleged Hackers Explain Reasons For Posting Snapchat Data
    After millions of Snapchat usernames and other data were posted online, a claim of responsibility includes a motive: The service didn't do enough to increase its security, those allegedly involved say. Snapchat allows users to send images that vanish 10 seconds after they're seen.
  • Uber says Snapchat will get information about the ETA, vehicle type and destination, but no private data, to create special filters for riders.
    Uber And Snapchat Team Up To Zero In On Your Friends
    Now, if you give Uber access to your phone contacts, you could set a person, rather than a location, as a destination of your ride — and get a prompt to Snapchat the waiting friend in the meantime.
  • An iPhone screengrab of Snapchat's speed filter, which allows users to record and share how fast they are moving. Snap told NPR that it is eliminating the tool.
    Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving
    The messaging app popular with teens is dropping a feature first launched in 2013. After several deadly car crashes involving the filter, Snap was the target of numerous lawsuits.
  • ACC Pulls Championship Games From NC
    Monday it was the NCAA. Wednesday it’s the ACC. The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents announced today 10 league championships will not be...
  • ACC & NCAA Moves Bring Disappointment, Disdain
    It's an unhappy week for sports promoters in North Carolina. Both the NCAA, on Monday, and the Atlantic Coast Conference, on Wednesday, said they're...
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