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Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Morning Edition is the most listened-to news radio program in the country.

A bi-coastal, 24-hour news operation, Morning Edition is hosted by NPR's Steve Inskeep, David Greene, and Rachel Martin, and locally by KOSU's Michael Cross in Oklahoma City.

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Brightening Your Day with New Morning Edition Music

By Meg Goldthwaite • May 3, 2019

Do not adjust your radio - it's the same NPR you know and love, just with a fresh beat. Starting May 6, 2019, millions of NPR listeners will have a new morning soundtrack. The familiar theme music Morning Edition listeners have been waking up to for 40 years is getting a tune-up.

Check out this short behind-the-scenes video on the making of the music:

Composing the New Sound of Morning Edition

Attorney General Barr Is Asking Reasonable Questions, Sen. Lankford Says

By editor • Apr 11, 2019

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Oklahoma Drops Some Claims To 'Refocus' Lawsuit Against Opioid-Makers

By • Apr 5, 2019

A week after winning a $270 million settlement against Purdue Pharma, Oklahoma is dropping a laundry list of civil claims against drug companies at the center of the national opioid epidemic. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said the move would "refocus" the lawsuit slated to go to trial May 28.

How Closing The Border Would Affect U.S. Economy, From Avocados To Autos

By • Apr 2, 2019

Updated at 3:08 p.m ET

Frustrated by the large number of Central Americans who have been entering the country from Mexico, President Trump doubled down on his threat to close the Southern U.S. border.

"I'm ready to close it," Trump said Tuesday. "If we don't make a deal with Congress, the border is going to be closed, 100 percent."

GOP Rep. Cole To Stand With Trump On Border Wall Emergency

By & • Feb 26, 2019
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David Greene talks to Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma about the House vote Tuesday on a resolution to end the president's national emergency declaration. NPR's Tamara Keith weighs in on the issue.

Kyler Murray Is Top-Notch. Will He Pursue: Baseball Or Football?

By • Jan 16, 2019
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David Greene talks to ESPN's Jeff Passan about Kyler Murray, a top-draft pick by baseball's Oakland A's. After a Heisman Trophy-winning year as a college quarterback, he's entered the NFL draft too.

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A Woman Brags On Dating App About An Illegal Deer Kill

By • Jan 9, 2019

At the time she mentioned killing a deer, the Oklahoma woman was on the dating app Bumble. The guy chatting with her about the illegal deer kill just happened to be a game warden.

Trump Says He Won't Scrap Arms Deal Over Missing Saudi Journalist

By editor • Oct 16, 2018

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Cherokee Official Says Trump-Warren DNA Debate Not Helping Tribe

By & • Oct 16, 2018
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The DNA test that Sen. Elizabeth Warren took, which showed she has Native American ancestry is "completely irrelevant to the process" of determining her tribal identity, the Cherokee Secretary of State told NPR's Morning Edition.

Chuck Hoskin was also critical of President Trump, saying he "should not be calling her 'Pocahontas,' but "should be looking into the needs of Indian country are because the needs are there."

Keepers Of The Underground: The Hiphop Archive At Harvard

By • Sep 6, 2018

This story is the first in NPR's new Morning Edition series produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) called The Keepers, stories of activist, archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians — keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep.

Over a decade ago, students of Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, then a Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, started dropping by her office, imploring her to listen to hip-hop.

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