National News
Journalist Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash At Age 33
Wed, June 19, 2013 1:01am
The journalist whose candid interviews of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the officer's eventual removal from his post has died in a car crash, according to reports.Read More
Boehner Seeks To Reassure House GOP On Immigration
Tue, June 18, 2013 10:50pm
House Speaker John Boehner strongly suggested he would abide by the Hastert rule on immigration legislation, meaning no floor vote unless a majority of House Republicans backed the bill.Read More
Google Files First-Amendment Request With FISA Court
Tue, June 18, 2013 10:50pm
The court filing comes one week after Google asked the U.S. government's permission to provide the public with information about the national security requests it receives.Read More
A Field Guide To Jimmy Hoffa Searches
Tue, June 18, 2013 10:10pm
The whereabouts of the ex-Teamsters boss is the stuff of urban legend. Here are the highlights and lowlights of the various searches for Jimmy Hoffa's body.Read More
Perk Backlash: Do Surprise Upgrades Make Us Uneasy?
Tue, June 18, 2013 9:34pm
When we get free perks we didn't earn, negative feelings can result, according to researchers. Part of the problem? Fellow customers. It helps if they're not around, a new study says.Read More
Obama's Unplanned NSA Discussion
Tue, June 18, 2013 8:26pm
President Obama didn't expect he'd need to have a "national conversation" about government data-gathering.Read More
'Days Of Rambo Are Over': Pentagon Details Women's Move To Combat
Tue, June 18, 2013 8:22pm
The U.S. military said in January that it will end its front-line combat exclusion for women; the shift means that women could join elite forces such as the Army Rangers and Navy SEALs in the next three years.Read More
FDA Backs Off On Regulation Of Fecal Transplants
Tue, June 18, 2013 7:08pm
Fecal transplants are being used more often to treat life-threatening bacterial infections. But the Food and Drug Administration worried that the still-experimental procedure put patients at risk. Now it is dropping plans to restrict transplants after doctors and patients complained.Read More
Home-Schooled Students Fight To Play On Public School Teams
Tue, June 18, 2013 9:45pm
Roughly half of U.S. states have passed laws making home-schooled students eligible to play for their local school teams. But in Indiana, an attempt to find a middle ground hasn't calmed the debate.Read More
A Look Back At How Newspapers Covered The Civil Rights Movement
Tue, June 18, 2013 9:33pm
This week Audie Cornish travels to Birmingham, Ala., to revisit some of the stories that shaped that city and the nation in the summer of 1963. Today she talks with Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat about how the newspapers covered the civil rights struggle fifty years ago.Read More
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