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Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins has been covering the recent elections in Iraq. In April, he received the George Polk Award for War Reporting for "his riveting, first-hand account of an eight-day attack on Iraqi insurgents in Falluja."

U.S. accounting firms are increasingly outsourcing data-entry work related to tax returns overseas. This year, as many as 100,000 American taxpayers may have their returns prepared in India. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

Vietnam Veterans of America is calling on the government to investigate fake social media accounts targeting veterans online.

Yes, it's true. Despite ongoing privacy concerns, fake Russian accounts and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook wants to help you find love.

Consumer confidence tumbled in December, the third straight month it has fallen. The decline in the closely watched Conference Board index is another indication that the economy has cooled and that consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the nation's economic activity, is slowing. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

With the release of his education reform package today, President Bush has come down solidly on the side of higher standards and more testing for students. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, there is strong support for holding schools more accountable, but there are also concerns that the current emphasis on testing may be missing the point.

NPR's Robert Smith reports on how President Bush's education proposals are playing out in the states and local school districts that will be charged with implementing them. While many educators welcome his proposals for holding schools accountable, many worry about the demands for more testing and how much it will cost.

NASA investigators are continuing to comb through telemetry data and internal records, examine debris and evaluate other sources of information includic home videos and eyewitess accounts. Meanwhile the remains of the astronauts arrive at Dover Air Force Base. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about the president's proposal for $3,000 un-employment accounts.