Sandy Continues To Disrupt Lives As It Heads West
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Sandy has spoken. Over the past 24 hours, the storm has...
View ArticleRaising Taxes A Key Sticking Point In Fiscal Cliff Talks
Congress had hoped to be out of town for the holidays by the end of this week. That's not looking likely anymore, with the negotiations on efforts to avert automatic tax hikes and spending cuts moving...
View ArticleObama Administration To File Brief Urging Supreme Court To Strike Down Prop. 8
The Obama administration is set to file a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. Nina Totenberg talks to Audie...
View ArticleNo Obvious Favorites As NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Starts
Go on, pick a favorite in this year's NCAA tournament. We dare you. There's more than a dozen legitimate contenders to pick from. And then there's all those potential Cinderella teams. Mike Pesca talks...
View ArticleRivalries And Infighting Could Follow In Wake Of Chavez's Death
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Joining us now to talk about what comes next is NPR's Tom Gjelten. He's covered Latin America for us.And, Tom, Hugo Chavez, such a dominating figure in Venezuela. What...
View ArticleSenate Confirms Brennan As CIA Director
The Senate easily confirmed the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director, that following the dramatics of Sen. Rand Paul, who filibustered against it for nearly 13 hours on Wednesday night. Is this...
View ArticleRemembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag
Lillian Cahn, co-founder of Coach Leatherwear Co., died March 4 at the age of 89. Cahn was the force behind today's high-end leather handbags.Back in the 1960s, she and her husband, Miles Cahn, were...
View ArticleCharges Dropped Against Man Accused Of Sending Ricin Letters
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Mysterious new developments in Mississippi today in the case...
View ArticleU.S. Obtained AP Journalists' Phone Records
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today we learned of some news from the Associated Press in which the AP is at the center of the story. The newswire service reports that the Justice Department secretly...
View ArticleA Look Back At How Newspapers Covered The Civil Rights Movement
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish in Birmingham, Alabama....
View ArticleHow The Civil Rights Movement Was Covered In Birmingham
As the Civil Rights Movement was unfolding across the US in 1963, the entire nation had its eyes on climactic events taking place in Southern cities like Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss. But...
View ArticleThe Desegregation Of Birmingham's Golf Courses
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. All this week, I'm in...
View ArticleBreaking Golf's Color Barrier In Birmingham
This week, All Things Considered host Audie Cornish traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to cover the 50th anniversary of the tumultuous civil rights protests that happened there. It's all part of NPR's...
View ArticleNSA Leaker Sets Sights On South America, But Why Ecuador?
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The U.S. continues its cat and mouse game with the man who confessed to leaking NSA secrets, Edward Snowden. After spending the last few weeks in Hong Kong, Snowden...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Start Crafting Their Own Immigration Bill
House Republicans huddled behind closed doors to consider their options on immigration on Wednesday. The Senate passed an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship, but conservatives in...
View ArticleWhere Are All Of Wyomings Escalators?
There is a reported paucity of moving staircases in the Cowboy State. And that shortcoming has been posited as a argument for Wyoming to have fewer than its allotted pair of Senators. Audie Cornish and...
View ArticleWhite House Proposes Major Changes To Corporate Tax Code
President Obama traveled to Tennessee on Tuesday, another event in his recent push to emphasize jobs and the economy.
View ArticleFormer Goldman Sachs Trader Found Liable For Fraud
Former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre was found liable on six of seven counts on Thursday. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tourre of misleading investors in a mortgage-linked security.
View ArticleFukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking 300 Tons Of Tainted Water Daily
The Japanese government has announced that radioactive groundwater is leaking from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. To try and stop it, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the plant, has...
View ArticleUnemployment Claims Drop To Pre-Recession Levels
More than 330,000 people filed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week. That sounds like a big number — and is a slight increase over the previous week — but it's being taken as some...
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