Petraeus To Testify At Closed Congressional Hearings
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.Former CIA Director David Petraeus is testifying before two...
View ArticleDeadline Extended For Health Insurance Exchanges
Friday was supposed to be the deadline for a key part of the health care law: states were to tell the federal government about their progress on building a state exchange. But the deadline has been...
View ArticlePolitics In The News
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.President Obama is traveling in Asia this week, reasserting...
View ArticleTalks On Iran's Nuclear Program To Resume In April
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Iran now says compromise on its nuclear program may be possible. Of course, that comes with a number of ifs. Tehran says that's if international negotiators continue...
View ArticleVenezuela, World Leaders Mourn Hugo Chavez
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Leader from around the world have arrived in Venezuela to pay their final respects to President Hugo Chavez, who used his country's oil wealth to put in place his...
View ArticleNational Security Adviser Donilon Resigns; Rice To Take Over
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.The Whitehouse has announced that President Obama's National...
View ArticleIntelligence Community Interested In Phone Records, Internet Data
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
View ArticleFeds Buckle On Emergency Contraception Age Restrictions
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And I'm Linda Wertheimer. The morning after pill is moving from behind the counter to...
View ArticleRotenberg's Toronto Thrillers Mix Canadian Courtesy With Murder
Robert Rotenberg has written four legal thrillers set in Toronto, that old industrial city on the shores of Lake Ontario. He's a criminal lawyer — all his books are centered on trials — and he loves...
View ArticleIntercepted Al-Qaida Communication Prompts Warnings
The State Department on Tuesday advised all U.S. citizens to leave Yemen because of "extremely high" danger there. This comes as 19 U.S. embassies and consulates remain closed across much of the Middle...
View ArticleA Cronut By Any Other Name Is Still A Cronut
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Little Big's Bakery in South Portland, Maine worked up its version of the cronut, the croissant-donut hybrid. The Mainers tried to...
View Article'Wheel Of Fortune' Player Cashes In With N And E
A Wheel of Fortune contestant guessed a 12-letter phrase in the bonus round Wednesday night with only two letters revealed — and he won $45,000.
View ArticleU.N. Report: All Sides Committing Atrocities In Syria
U.N. investigators are gathering the names of people they suspect of war crimes in Syria. In their latest report, they say all sides in the conflict are committing atrocities against civilians. We hear...
View ArticleA Meteoric Rise For Young 'Divergent' Author
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: You've heard that "Divergent" follows in the path of other young adult series, like "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" that went on to triumph at the box office. One...
View ArticleGame Developers Conference: Not Your Typical Tech Convention
Brian Crecente, who is covering the Game Developers Conference this week for the video game website Polygon, talks about the latest trends in the industry.
View ArticleHard-Boiled Hero Jack Irish Lives, And Drinks, In A Shadowy Melbourne
Peter Temple writes prize-winning thrillers, four of them about his sometimes hapless investigator, Jack Irish. The books capture Melbourne, Australia: its pubs, racetracks, big boulevards rattling...
View ArticleFilmmaker Searches For 'White Widow' Of London Bombing
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: On July 7, 2005 - nine years ago tomorrow - a series of explosions in central London killed 52 people and injured over 700 others. One of the bombers, Germaine...
View ArticleA Cronut By Any Other Name Is Still A Cronut
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Little Big's Bakery in South Portland, Maine worked up its version of the cronut, the croissant-donut hybrid. The Mainers tried to...
View Article'Wheel Of Fortune' Player Cashes In With N And E
A Wheel of Fortune contestant guessed a 12-letter phrase in the bonus round Wednesday night with only two letters revealed — and he won $45,000.
View ArticleU.N. Report: All Sides Committing Atrocities In Syria
U.N. investigators are gathering the names of people they suspect of war crimes in Syria. In their latest report, they say all sides in the conflict are committing atrocities against civilians. We hear...
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