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Mark Memmott is one of the hosts of NPR's "The Two-Way" news blog.

"The Two-Way," which Memmott helped to launched when he came to NPR in 2009, focuses on breaking news, analysis, and the most compelling stories being reported by NPR News and other news media.

Before joining NPR, Memmott worked for nearly 25 years as a reporter and editor at USA Today. He focused on a range of coverage from politics, foreign affairs, economics, and the media. He's reported from places across the Unites States and the world, including half a dozen trips to Afghanistan in 2002-2003.

During his time at USA Today, Memmott, helped launch and lead three USAToday.com news blogs: "On Deadline;" "The Oval;" and "On Politics," the site's 2008 presidential campaign blog.

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The Two-Way
12:04 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Country Star George Jones Dies

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George Jones in the late 1980s.
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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 3:47 pm

Country superstar George Jones, known for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and a long string of other hits, has died.

He was 81.

According to Webster & Associates, the Nashville public relations firm that represented Jones, he died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was hospitalized there on April 18 for treatment of a fever and irregular blood pressure, the p.r. firm adds.

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Science
10:11 am
Wed April 24, 2013

Stunning Video: 3 Years Of The Sun In 3 Minutes

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This is a composite of 25 separate images spanning the period from April 16, 2012, to April 15, 2013. In a video, NASA has also collected three years' worth of such images and set them in a new video.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 8:37 am

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The Two-Way
2:27 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

AP Twitter Account Hacked, Tweet About Obama Shakes Market

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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 8:56 am

A Twitter account from The Associated Press was hacked Tuesday afternoon and the erroneous message — to be perfectly clear, it WAS NOT TRUE — sent stocks down sharply for a few moments.

The false message claimed there had been two explosions at the White House and that President Obama had been injured. Again, none of that happened.

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The Two-Way
11:15 am
Mon April 22, 2013

So Far, So Good: But Midwest's Floods Aren't Over

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As the Mississippi River has risen in St. Louis, the city's Lewis and Clark statue has — as often happens in the spring — been partially submerged.
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Originally published on Mon April 22, 2013 11:51 am

The good news is that "the big river didn't get too big," The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes this morning.

"Sandbags held back the cresting Mississippi River from several towns north of St. Louis on Sunday," it adds, "while the forecast for the immediate vicinity remained high but manageable."

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The Two-Way
6:43 am
Thu April 18, 2013

Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast Killed Several, Injured Dozens

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A chemical trailer sits among the remains of a fertilizer plant.
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This video image shows injured people being treated on the high school football field turned into a staging area on Wednesday.
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Smoke rises as water is sprayed after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas.
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Firefighters search an area destroyed by the explosion.
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A fire still burns in a apartment complex destroyed near the plant.
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The remains of a fertilizer plant burn.
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Waco Police spokesman William Swanton speaks at a media conference regarding the explosion.
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An injured person is assisted by two men as a nursing home is evacuated after the explosion.
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Firefighters conduct a search and rescue on Thursday of an apartment building destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, late Wednesday. The massive explosion at the plant killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160.
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Maria Galvin cleans up broken glass in the front of her business, after the windows was blown out by the explosion.
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The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, Texas.
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Originally published on Thu April 18, 2013 7:04 pm

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