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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Negotiating with ISIS

    The White House confirmed that 26-year-old Kayla Mueller is dead. She was being held by ISIS after being captured in Syria. Meuller was an aid worker from Arizona. It’s not clear how or when she died. ISIS says she was killed by a Jordanian airstrike. But what efforts were made to try to save Mueller since she was first kidnapped in 2013?

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 10, 2015 • 1 min read

    The White House confirmed that 26-year-old Kayla Mueller is dead. She was being held by ISIS after being captured in Syria. Meuller was an aid worker from Arizona. It’s not clear how or when she died. ISIS says she was killed by a Jordanian airstrike. But what efforts were made to try to save Mueller since she was first kidnapped in 2013? And why didn’t they work?

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    City Council Salaries, Big Business of Education, and Soy Sauce History
    1. 0:00L.A. City Council Salaries
    2. 8:05The Big Business of Education
    3. 17:50What We Talk About When We Talk About Vaccines
    4. 26:35Negotiating with ISISYou’re reading this
    5. 34:50American Sniper Murder Trial Begins
    6. 42:02The History of a Messy Soy Sauce Package
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

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    The full episode

    4 of 6
    City Council Salaries, Big Business of Education, and Soy Sauce History
    1. 0:00L.A. City Council Salaries
    2. 8:05The Big Business of Education
    3. 17:50What We Talk About When We Talk About Vaccines
    4. 26:35Negotiating with ISISYou’re reading this
    5. 34:50American Sniper Murder Trial Begins
    6. 42:02The History of a Messy Soy Sauce Package
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