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The ex-host of "Morning Edition" is leaving NPR to do a morning program on the XM Satellite Radio system, according to NPR. Edwards hasn't confirmed or denied it. An earlier report that his new gig would be with Public Radio International was wrong, NPR says on its website. * Updated at 9 p.m.
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