Enlarge image i People run from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, after gunmen attacked with grenades and gunfire. At least 20 people are reported to have died in the attack. Jason Straziuso/AP People run from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, after gunmen attacked with grenades and gunfire. At least
As Syria turns over its “initial declaration” of chemical weapons, President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin have become partners with the U.S., argues Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Host Scott Simon talks to Goldberg about the foreign affairs strategy with Syria. Article source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=224715921&ft=1&f=1001
Enlarge image i A rebel fighter cleans his weapon in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday. Syria’s civil war continues, even as the country follows a schedule of releasing information on its chemical weapons program. AFP/AFP/Getty Images A rebel fighter cleans his weapon in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday. Syria’s civil war
He thought about stealing some cheese, too, Detroit Tigers’ first baseman Prince Fielder says, but worried that the fan might be a double-dipper. Watch what happened Thursday when Fielder chased a foul ball toward the stands and casually lifted a nacho chip from an unsuspecting fan’s snack tray before heading back on to the field.
Enlarge image i Iranian President Hassan Rowhani earlier this month. Behrouz Mehri /AFP/Getty Images Iranian President Hassan Rowhani earlier this month. Behrouz Mehri /AFP/Getty Images Iranian President Hassan Rouhani uses the op-ed pages of The Washington Post on Friday to: “Urge my counterparts to seize the opportunity presented by Iran’s recent election. I urge them
Enlarge image i A car lays buried in mud after flooding triggered by Hurricane Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP A car lays buried in mud after flooding triggered by Hurricane Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP Authorities were saying early Friday that at least 97 people were known to have died in the flooding,
Workers prepare orders to be loaded for shipment at a UPS Healthcare Supply Chain and Distribution Center in Atlanta on March 12. The company recently announced that it would no longer offer coverage for spouses who had their own job-based insurance. Robin Nelson/Bloomberg via Getty Images When UPS told workers that it would no longer
Before Fox News turned its cameras on him, Jason Greenslate was an anonymous Southern California beach bum, hanging with his surfer pals, playing in a demonstrably awful band and, in his words, “livin’ the ratt life.” He doesn’t work and gets $200 a month in food stamp assistance that he sometimes uses to buy lobster.
Enlarge image i The U.S. Capitol at sunrise. Jason Reed/Reuters /Landov The U.S. Capitol at sunrise. Jason Reed/Reuters /Landov No one who’s been paying attention for, say, the last few decades, needs to be reminded of how extremely polarized Washington is. So it’s usually good news when Democrats and Republicans can come together on an
It hasn’t been a good past few days for the country. We had another mass shooting and out West in Colorado, thousands have been displaced and thousands of homes have been damaged by raging flood waters. But there’s a video making the rounds on the Internet today that gives us a bit of hope. It
A special federal surveillance court has reaffirmed the constitutionality of a National Security Agency program that collects data about most of the nation’s phone traffic. NPR’s Larry Abramson reports that the court says the records of phone metadata are not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court says continuation of the controversial
The Obama administration doesn’t think you should go to jail if you unlock your cell phone and move over to a new carrier. The administration on Tuesday sent a petition to the FCC asking it to come up with new rules to override a law scheduled to take effect on Jan. 26, 2014. The law