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  • Heritage Foundation Rallies Support To Defund Obamacare
    The Heritage Foundation and its political activist arm Heritage Action are turning to the town hall format to try to stop the health care law. Foundation president and former GOP senator Jim DeMint was in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Monday night as part of a nine-city defund Obamacare tour.
  • Obamas Welcome New Puppy To The White House
    The Obamas have been joined at the White House by a new puppy, Sunny, who will now be a little sister to their current dog Bo. Like Bo, Sunny is a Portuguese Water Dog.
  • Writer Elmore Leonard died Tuesday at the age of 87.
    Crime Novelist Elmore Leonard Dies
    His best-sellers included Get Shorty. Movies based on his stories included Hombre. Leonard was also the creator of the Raylan Givens character on FX TV's Justified. Leonard was 87.
  • The immigration activists known as the Dream 9 were arrested after attempting to re-enter the United States.
    The Dream 9 Pushes The Envelope (And Their Allies' Buttons)
    Like protesters in so many social movements, a group of young immigration activists must try to move the conversation without going too far.
  • Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in October 1951. The CIA this week acknowledged publicly for the first time that it played a role in the coup that ousted Mossadegh.
    CIA's Acknowledgment Of Iran Coup Role Is Latest Revelation
    The agency acknowledged this week that it played a role in Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh's ouster in 1953. The CIA also acknowledged the existence of Area 51 and spying on Noam Chomsky.
  • A construction worker walks beside underground water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.
    New Leak Reported At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant
    The Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the plant, says about 80,000 gallons of contaminated water have spewed from a metal holding tank. The leak is reportedly the largest of several at the tsunami-damaged facility.
  • Unrest Boiling Over In Egypt
    Violence continues in Egypt, and the political situation there continues to get more volatile. Guest host Celeste Headlee checks in with NPR's correspondent, Peter Kenyon.
  • Composer Marc Blitzstein (left) with Leonard Bernstein studying the score of a Blitzstein work during a 1947 recording session.
    Symphonic For The People: The Mid-Century American Symphony
    The middle of the 20th century was a golden age for American symphonic music. From William Grant Still's celebration of African-American culture to Marc Blitzstein's ode to aviation and the U.S. military, Harvard scholar Carol Oja explores a compellingly diverse group of American symphonies.
  • The self-proclaimed sovereign principality of Sealand, aboard a World War II artillery platform, began hosting the Internet haven HavenCo in 2000.
    Wild, Wild Web: Policing An Early, Lawless Internet
    There was a time when many thought the Internet was beyond government regulation, its very chaos a source of creativity and strength. Nate Anderson's The Internet Police looks at how law enforcement went about changing that.
  • Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles
    Edwin Moses was one of the best ever at clearing hurdles on the track. Now, the two-time Olympic gold medal winner is helping to bring sports programs to kids in underserved neighborhoods.
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