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Big Money and the Right to Free Speech
An attack film called Hillary: The Movie is at the heart of a case that could change the way political campaigns have been financed for more than 100 years. We hear about today's extraordinary session of the US Supreme Court, the first for the new Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Also, the capture of a New York Times Reporter illustrates the escalating danger in Afghanistan. On Reporter's Notebook, can the US afford human exploration in space?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenAn attack film called Hillary: The Movie is at the heart of a case that could change the way political campaigns have been financed for more than 100 years. We hear about today's extraordinary session of the US Supreme Court, the first for the new Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Also, the capture of a New York Times Reporter illustrates the escalating danger in Afghanistan. On Reporter's Notebook, can the US afford NASA's plans to go back to the Moon and on to Mars? What about private enterprise?
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3 storiesCapture of New York Times Reporter Illustrates Danger in Afghanistan
There's evidence today that Afghanistan is getting more dangerous for reporters. A British commando raid has rescued Stephen Farrell of the New York Times, who was seized on Saturday. But one of the commandos was killed, along with an Afghan woman and Farrell's interpreter, Sultan Munadi.
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In 1907, trust-busting President Teddy Roosevelt persuaded Congress to ban corporations from contributing to political campaigns.
Read the story35 minSpace Panel Finds It Too Costly to Send Men to the Moon, Mars
NASA has big plans to send humans back to the Moon and Mars , but lacks the money to meet its goals, according to a blue-ribbon committee formed to advise President Obama. The President appointed former Lockheed Martin Chairman Norman Augustine to head the review of America's space program.
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