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• Senate Armed Services committee hearing
  NPR special coverage of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testifying before the Senate Armed Services committee about the status of the war in Iraq. Presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton serve on the Armed Services committee.Midmorning, April 7, 2008
• Analysis of Iraq war testimony
  Two U.S. Senate committees are hearing testimony about the progress of the Iraq war from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. During a break in the hearings, Midday hears some analysis from a foreign policy expert.Midday, April 7, 2008
• Tibet at crossroads
  Violence continues in Tibet. The London-based Free Tibet Campaign says several were killed, though the Chinese news service did not mention deaths. A Tibetan scholar says the Chinese government continues to underplay an uprising that has spread throughout Tibet and to surrounding provinces.Midmorning, April 4, 2008
• Ellison calls for more attention to Afghanistan conflict
  Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison said the war in Afghanistan would be a bigger issue in the presidential election if reporters and citizens took more interest in it.April 2, 2008
• Calm returns to Iraq?
  MIT political scientist and international relations specialist Stephen Van Evera joins Midday to discuss the recent unrest in Iraq and what it means for the stabilization of the country moving forward.Midday, April 1, 2008
• Women at war, examining the experience
  The role of women in the U.S. military has changed. A North Dakota sociologist is trying to learn how being closer to the front line affects women.March 31, 2008
• Students find their calling in the ROTC
  Support for the Iraq war is down, but the number of college students completing Army officer training is on the rise.March 28, 2008
• New violence spreading in Iraq
  Midmorning examines the latest surge in violence in Iraq, and what it could mean for the planned troop drawdown.Midmorning, March 28, 2008
• Hundreds of Minnesota National Guard members prepare for Iraq deployment
  Members of the 34th Combat Aviation Brigade will arrive in Iraq in about six months.March 28, 2008
• Minnesota soldier dies in Iraq
  Gregory Rundell, 21, of North St. Paul, was killed early Wednesday while manning a guard tower in Iraq.March 27, 2008
• Police arrest two dozen protesters
  Police say they arrested two dozen people at an anti-war rally on the University of Minnesota campus today.March 27, 2008
• FBI confirms death of Minnesota contractor Paul Johnson-Reuben
  The family of Buffalo, Minn., resident Paul Johnson-Reuben can finally mourn after learning last night that his body was found in Iraq.March 27, 2008
• 'Boys Don't Cry' director goes to war
  This weekend a new film called "Stop-Loss" opens around the country. The movie is about what happens when a Texas veteran, who is expecting to get out of the military after his second tour in Iraq, is ordered back to Baghdad. Stop-Loss is written and directed by Kimberly Pierce, Oscar-winning director of "Boys Don't Cry."March 27, 2008
• 'Chasing the Flame'
  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power is out with a new biography of the UN envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003 titled, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World," which she recently discussed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.Midday, March 27, 2008
• Former JAG weighs in on the torture question
  A Navy admiral speaks out against President Bush's policies on the interrogation and treatment of terror suspects.Midmorning, March 25, 2008

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