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A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to propose a new standard for lead inside homes within 90 days. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Eve Gartner, who litigated on behalf of groups suing the EPA to update the standards.

France has just lifted a nearly two year state of emergency that was put in place in Nov. 2015 and extended six times. To replace it, the government has passed an anti-terrorism law. But critics say the new law compromises the protection of individual liberties.

On Thursday, more than 40 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Reuters' Kabul bureau chief James Mackenzie for an update on the details of the attack.

Homeowners in high-tax areas have been racing to prepay their 2018 property taxes in an effort to beat the new deduction limits that take effect next year. But the IRS warns in many cases that strategy may not be allowed.

Israeli parliament passed a law making it harder for police to disclose when they recommend indictments of top officials. It comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being investigated by police.

Rose Marie may be best remembered for playing writer Sally Rogers on the 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. A documentary about her life, Wait For Your Laugh, was released last month.

President Trump has given relatively few interviews to networks other than Fox News since taking office. But CBN, founded by the televangelist Pat Robertson, is an exception.

Thursday's suicide bombing in the Afghan capital of Kabul targeted a Shiite cultural center, and killed 41 people. Victims' families say the government isn't doing enough to stop the violence.

The IRS said Wednesday that homeowners shouldn't prepay next year's property taxes — leaving many of them in legal limbo. David Greene talks to David Harrison of The Wall Street Journal.

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