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  • How Secret Does A Secret Court Need To Be?
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court, is the legal body that decides whether wiretaps and other surveillance methods used by the intelligence community are legal. Officials seem to agree that the procedures need to be more transparent, but how that would happen is anything but clear.
  • Revisiting U.S. Commitment To The Middle East
    Two years ago on May 19, President Obama called for a new chapter in American diplomacy, promising to make it a top priority to support democracy and human rights in a changing Middle East. Some experts say that the U.S. has failed to live up to that commitment in places like Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The conflict in Syria has also opened a darker chapter in the Arab uprisings.
  • President Obama is expected to nominate James Comey, seen in 2004, to be the next director of the FBI.
    FBI Pick Is A Republican With Deep Roots In Law Enforcement
    President Obama is expected to nominate James Comey to be the next FBI director. As a top official in the Justice Department during President George W. Bush's administration, James Comey became famous for standing up to a White House effort to reauthorize a controversial wiretapping program.
  • Lebanese firefighters extinguish burning cars in Beirut following a huge bomb explosion.
    Lebanese Security Official May Have Been Target Of Deadly Bombing
    At least eight people are dead and 78 are wounded, state news media report, while victims scramble to get out of the debris. The attack, possibly a car bomb, happened on a street where a group that opposes Syrian President Bashar Assad has offices.
  • Fleet Foxes were among the many artists listeners say they turn to to survive the winter months.
    Question Of The Week: Which Songs Get You Through The Winter?
    It may be the shortest month of the year, but February can feel brutally long for anyone who's sick of winter. As we look forward to spring, we want to know what you've been listening to to get you through the long winter months. Tell us your Top 5 songs to survive the season.
  • The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
    New Bern’s Nicholas Sparks has just released his 18th book “The Longest Ride.” Dating back to 1996’s “The Notebook” he’s enjoyed remarkable success, with…
  • Some families already got a head start on shopping for the school year when Amazon, Walmart, Target and others held huge summer sales. Now, parents are getting a new financial boost from the government: an increased child tax credit of up to $3,000 for school-age children.
    Families Splurge On Clothes And Electronics In Likely Record Back-To-School Spree
    Last year it was all about chairs and headphones. This year it's time for T-shirts and sneakers — and more laptops. Back-to-school shopping in the U.S. is expected to top $37 billion.
  • How Aid Efforts Are Going In Haiti After Earthquake
    Tamara Keith speaks to aid worker Margarett Lubin about Saturday's earthquake in Haiti.
  • Defense Officials Testify At Senate Hearing On Afghanistan
    Top Pentagon officials are testifying Tuesday for the first time since the completion of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  • Who do Americans honor most? The National Monument Audit wants to find out
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Paul Farber, co-director of the National Monument Audit, about the report's findings on monuments in the United States.
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