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What's your tradition?

Sat Jan 1, 2011 4:02 PM EST

Kate Snow writes: At our morning editorial meeting this morning I mentioned that my eight year old has been wearing a pair of yellow underwear after reading in one of his many fact books that it will bring him good luck for this new year.

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Happy new year

Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:19 PM EST

Kate Snow writes: Personally, I’m ready to bid farewell to 2010. And I’m guessing I’m not alone on this New Year’s Eve. The year is ending painfully for many in the Midwest. Tornadoes have been reported today in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.

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The genesis of tonight's Making a Difference

Fri Dec 3, 2010 6:01 PM EST

One of the questions we reporters often get is where we get our story ideas. One of our biggest goals is to get them from viewers so please keep those emails coming.

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Drugs, Weapons and Mexico

Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:20 PM EDT

Richard Engel writes: I just returned to New York from Mexico. The drug war in Mexico is truly an amazing story with major implications for the United States.

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The high cost of treating cancer

Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:03 PM EDT

We report tonight about concerns that in the bad economy some people are cutting back or stopping taking expensive cancer drugs -- often with disastrous consequences.

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Experimental drug for advanced melanoma

Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:58 PM EDT

Robert Bazell writes: Tonight we report on exciting, early results with an experimental drug for advanced melanoma. The drug is still only known by its experimental name PLX4032. It targets a genetic mutation called BRAF which is present in about 60 per cent of melanomas.

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The Veteran's Bedside Network - A Post Script

Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:30 AM EDT

Ron Allen writes: The response from colleagues around the building to our story about the Veteran's Bedside Network, and from the principals involved in the project has been overwhelmingly positive, and deeply appreciated.

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A pod or a school?

Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:40 PM EDT

Kate Snow writes: OK here’s one for you. Is it a “pod” of porpoises? A “school”? My 7 year old son would know. Andy, one of our writers, just cheated and wrote “some” porpoises for the Nightly News Now web broadcast.

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Remembering Gordon L. Williams

Mon Aug 9, 2010 9:43 AM EDT

editor's note: Brian remembers his father Gordon L. Williams, who passed away over the weekend.

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Tragic Journey

Fri Aug 6, 2010 4:14 PM EDT

From the night in 2006 Koua Fong Lee's car raced up a highway exit ramp at over 70 miles per hour crashing into another car and killing a man and child, he insisted he was not accelerating and was in fact trying to brake.

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Hitting home

Fri Aug 6, 2010 3:57 PM EDT

Laura Allenbaugh, Nightly News producer, writes: When I first saw Haylee's story it hit home for me. In college, looking for a way to pay for tuition, I ended up as a home health care aide.

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Soccer for Social Change: Getting the Homeless Off the Street and On their Feet

Thu Aug 5, 2010 6:42 PM EDT

Suzanne Kianpour writes: Vuvuzela horns made a comeback in the district this past weekend, but this time in support of a different kind of soccer player … formerly homeless ones.

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NN in the AM

Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:18 AM EDT

Editor's note: Here's a look at what we're following and talking about this morning. Chime in on what you're talking about in the comments below, or on our blog or Facebook page. What we're following: The economy - it slowed down in the second quarter

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It's Official: Rhinebeck, New York Is Designated A No-fly Zone.

Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:46 PM EDT

Amid all the rumors about the Clinton wedding this coming weekend, here's another strong bit of evidence: the FAA has posted a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) for the airspace overhead -- due to "VIP's" on the ground.

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The terrible toll that needs our attention

Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:08 PM EDT

In the month of June, members of the U.S. Army (active duty, Guard and Reserve) committed suicide at the rate of one per day. Suicide has just set a grim record, an awful benchmark: 32 in the month of June. And that's just one branch of the armed forces.

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Happy birthday

Sun Jul 4, 2010 4:48 PM EDT

Happy July 4th.

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News passion

Thu Jul 1, 2010 4:49 PM EDT

Ann Curry writes: A massive turnout at our Nightly News meeting today, which I am attending as I'm in for Brian tonight. No seats left, I'm counting six eager new interns sitting on the floor, taking notes, on what is a big news day on the economy.

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Fresh start

Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:51 PM EDT

Lester Holt writes: It's apparently been in the works for a while, but it became official today that BP CEO Tony Hayward is being replaced as the public face of the Gulf oil spill.

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Father knows best

Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:42 PM EDT

Today's new fathers really have their priorities set according to a new study published by the Boston College Center for Work and Family.

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War up close

Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:03 PM EDT

Yesterday afternoon, NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel called into the newsroom from Afghanistan where he is embedded with a unit of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

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Flash flood

Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:25 PM EDT

According to the National Weather Service in most years flooding accounts for more weather-related deaths than lightning, tornados and hurricanes. Only heat kills more. The thinking is that most of us underestimate the power of water.

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A lot of news on a Friday

Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:27 PM EDT

David Gregory writes: For a Friday when there is still so much focus on developments in the Gulf, we have all been completely absorbed in the emerging details of this deadly storm in Arkansas which has killed at least 20 people at a remote campsite.

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View from above

Sun Jun 6, 2010 4:06 PM EDT

My colleague Kerry Sanders has checked in from Louisiana after going up in a Coast Guard helicopter above the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Cancer advance

Sat Jun 5, 2010 4:29 PM EDT

There's been a dramatic breakthrough in the fight against the deadliest form of skin cancer. According to our Chief Science Correspondent Robert Bazell, it's the kind of advance in cancer treatment we may see only every 5 or 10 years.

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More of Brian's reports from the Gulf

Wed Jun 2, 2010 8:39 AM EDT

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