The Special Management Unit at Lewisburg prison, which was created in 2009 for "dangerously violent, confrontational, defiant, antagonistic inmates," has received many complaints about its use of restraints on inmates. Angie Wang for NPR hide caption

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter is suspending a claw-back program that has generated outrage, after nearly 10,000 California National Guard members had been ordered to repay large enlistment bonuses a decade after signing up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption

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Auvi-Q was pulled from the market in 2015 because of quality concerns. The drug's maker says the problems have been solved and that the product will be available in 2017. AP hide caption

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The bounty of the earth is celebrated in the high rituals of pagans. (Above) A Wiccan priestess is silhouetted by the afternoon light. In the foreground are examples of Wiccan cooking for the vernal equinox: (clockwise from near right) beat-pickled eggs; roast beef in tarragon; bowl of eggs boiled with onion skin wrap; bread with eggs; Ukrainian painted eggs; and apple crumble. Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption

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Calif. National Guardsmen Wait For Resolution To Bonus Scandal

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What's More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much

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Poll: Cost Of Child Care Causes Financial Stress For Many Families

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Paul Beatty is the first American to win the U.K.'s Man Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Sellout. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption

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Novelist Paul Beatty Is First American To Win Britain's Man Booker Prize

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Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer went undercover with the Three Percent United Patriots border militia group. Winni Wintermeyer/Courtesy of Mother Jones hide caption

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What A Reporter Learned When He Infiltrated An Arizona Militia Group

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We've Seen This Election Before, In Classic Movies

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