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  • Donald Trump's direct message on bombing ISIS seemed to resonate louder than all the others.
    Why 'Bomb The S*** Out Of Them' Sounds Pretty Good To A Lot Of Voters Right Now
    Pundits have been wrongly predicting Donald Trump's downfall in the presidential race for months. The latest conventional wisdom says that after Paris, he will fade. But that might be very wrong.
  • Government Workers' High-Value Data At Risk After OPM Breach
    The largest breach of U.S. government data was reported last week by the Office of Personnel Management. David Greene talks to Michael Riley, a cybersecurity reporter with Bloomberg Business.
  • Stephen Bannon, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign CEO, at Trump's Hispanic advisory roundtable meeting in New York on Saturday.
    Reports: New Trump Campaign CEO Faced Domestic Violence Charge In 1996
    Stephen K. Bannon, the new Trump campaign chief, is the third top Trump adviser who's landed in hot water during this campaign.
  • The orchids that produce vanilla beans have no natural pollinators in Madagascar; the plant must be pollinated by hand — a labor-intensive process with little margin for error.
    A Peace Corps Stint In Madagascar Gave Him A Vision Of Vanilla
    The top source of vanilla beans sends its fragrant crop abroad for processing into extract. Now a former Peace Corps volunteer aims to boost Madagascar's economy by building a bean-to-bottle business.
  • After Snowden, The NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge
    To keep its code-breaking prowess, the National Security Agency must recruit scores of the brightest students in math and computer science each year. The Snowden revelations are hurting those efforts.
  • ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson speaks in March 2015 at a discussion organized by the Economic Club of Washington. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Tillerson as his nominee for secretary of state today.
    What We Know About Rex Tillerson, Trump's Pick For Secretary Of State
    President-elect Donald Trump, in a statement early this morning, announced his intention to nominate the ExxonMobil chairman and CEO to become the country's top diplomat.
  • Is Eurozone's Debt Crisis Over?
    The World Economic Forum is underway in Davos, Switzerland. This annual meeting is where the world's rich and powerful talk about global economic issues. Topping the agenda is Europe's debt troubles. Renee Montagne talks to Zanny Minton Beddoes of The Economist about the eurozone crisis, which some European leaders in recent days have declared "over."
  • A woman in downtown Beijing walks past a building adorned with a patriotic mural by Chinese graffiti artists on April 22.
    Chasing The Chinese Dream — If You Can Define It
    Touted in the state-run media, "the Chinese dream" is Beijing's latest official slogan. The man who made the phrase famous says it means China becoming the world's No. 1 superpower. But as censors scrub unapproved versions of the concept from the Internet, people wonder: Just whose dream is it anyway?
  • The elaborately tiled City Hall subway station in New York City — still extant but now closed to the public, alas — used the Guastavino touch to convince wary city dwellers to head underground for a train trip.
    How One Family Built America's Public Palaces
    The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has a new exhibit about the soaring tile vaults built by a famous father-son team. The Guastavinos came to this country from Spain in the late 1800s, and left their mark on some of America's most important public spaces.
  • Andrew Rannells plays Bryan Buckley, a successful TV show producer and writer, in the new comedy <em>The New Normal</em>.
    Andrew Rannells: Gay And Serious In 'New Normal'
    The actor stars in the comedy TV series The New Normal, about a gay couple who want a child so badly that they hire a surrogate. Rannells tells Fresh Air that he didn't want to "dumb down" the serious role with "stereotypical over-the-top gay flash and sass."
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