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6:54 am
Sat July 14, 2012

Obama On The Stump In Virginia

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Originally published on Mon July 16, 2012 3:54 pm

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

As Mitt Romney defends his business record, President Barack Obama is on the campaign trail. He'll be in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D.C. today. Yesterday, the president traveled to the Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia, and he continued to make his pitch that he is the best champion for the middle class. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

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Business
6:54 am
Sat July 14, 2012

$6B Deal Eases Credit Card Surcharge Restrictions

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By Wendy Kaufman

Originally published on Mon July 16, 2012 3:54 pm

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Visa, MasterCard, some of the nation's other largest banks have agreed to a multibillion dollar settlement of a class action suit involving credit card transaction fees. Now, those are what merchants pay when you use plastic instead of cash. Retailers allege that the two largest payment networks conspired with the banks to keep so-called swipe fees high. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

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Europe
6:54 am
Sat July 14, 2012

Italians Commemorate Costa Concordia Wreck

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Work has begun to remove the tons of rocky reef embedded into the Concordia cruise ship's hull, off Giglio Island in Italy. The plan is to eventually tow the wreck away from the island in one piece.
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Giglio Island's nature-loving tourists have been replaced by day-trippers who want a look at the massive wreck of the Costa Concordia.
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Originally published on Mon July 16, 2012 3:54 pm

Last January, the captain of the Italian mega-cruise ship Costa Concordia committed an apparent act of maritime bravado a few yards from the shore of a Tuscan island. Thirty people were killed, and two are still missing.

Six months after one of the biggest passenger shipwrecks in recent history, relatives of the dead attended a memorial service Friday near the site of the disaster.

The solemn notes of Mozart's Requiem echoed through the small church of Saints Lorenzo and Mamiliano on the island of Giglio.

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Fresh Air Weekend
6:43 am
Sat July 14, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Iraq, Guthrie, 'Margaret'

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In Margaret, Lisa (Anna Paquin) distracts a bus driver, which leads to an accident in which a pedestrian is run over and dies.
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Originally published on Sat July 14, 2012 11:26 am

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:


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The Record
5:20 am
Sat July 14, 2012

He Keeps fun. Running

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Shane Timm tunes Jack Antonoff's guitar on the stage at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn before a fun. show in June.
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All Access: fun. guitar picks alongside tech Shane Timm's keys and back stage pass for the band's European tour.
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A Tech's Nemesis: Jack Antonoff's 1968 Gibson ES-330 electric guitar.
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Guitar tech Shane Timm (right) and fun.'s keyboard player Andrew Dost on stage in Brooklyn.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 6:31 pm

When NPR's Scott Simon spoke with singer Nate Ruess of the band fun. three weeks ago, the band was wrapping up a marathon tour of the United States in support of its album Some Nights and the hit single "We Are Young."

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