Search results for

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., about controversy surrounding some conservative lawmakers pushing to amend policies from the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

More than 1 million Texas Democrats showed up at party caucuses that followed the primary Tuesday. The results continue to trickle in, with the latest tally showing a solid win by Sen. Barack Obama. He could end up winning more delegates in Texas than New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has apologized to his family and the public after it was reported that he was involved in prostitution. Now many New Yorkers wonder whether the man whose crime-fighting reputation is on the line can stay in power.

Pianist Marian McPartland will celebrate her 90th birthday later this month. She continues to record her public radio show, Piano Jazz, and has released a new CD Twilight World. Liane Hansen recalls having the pleasure of her company 10 years ago at the piano in NPR's Studio 4A.

Mississippi gets its chance to choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Tuesday. Polls show Obama with a clear lead, but with delegates now the name of the game, the Clinton campaign is fighting for every one it can get.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive director and Chief Negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, about the decision by the actors' union to strike.

The Clinton campaign has accused the media of Obama-bias for weeks. Then, Saturday Night Live ran two skits making the same point — and now the Obama campaign says the press is giving Clinton an easy ride.

Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrest Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer, on Thursday. Doug Farah, an investigative journalist, talks to Melissa Block about the man accused of trading arms all over the world — often to both sides of the same conflict simultaneously.

Sen. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the Texas Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night, and she eked out a 92-91 delegate victory over Sen. Barack Obama. But the caucus results are still outstanding, and Obama could well walk away with a majority of the delegates.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that while the election of Russia's new president, Dimitri Medvedev, has been described as more of a coronation, and Medvedev himself described as a puppet of outgoing president Vladimir Putin, there may be something more profound at work.