Search results for

Carl reads three quotes from the week's news starting with: Slow Jamming for Votes, French Redressing and The Last Newt Standing.

Home foreclosure filings more than doubled in the second quarter of 2008 from a year ago, according to real estate data released Friday by RealtyTrac Inc. Nationwide, 739,714 households — one in every 171 — received at least one foreclosure-related notice from April to June.

The star of NBC's 30 Rock talks to Terry Gross about his tough childhood, how he made the grade in the comedy college that was Saturday Night Live, and why even though he may cry a little on the radio, "the funny bus is still sitting downstairs." (Rebroadcast from Oct. 22, 2009)

From scandals involving the IRS, to spirited Benghazi hearings, it's been a tough week for the Obama administration. But will this bad week really have further political fallout? Guest host Celeste Headlee checks in with the barbershop guys.

President Obama said Monday the government was doing everything in its power to keep the traveling public safe. Obama was making his first live public statement since a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day.

At the start of the pro baseball season, stories about steroid use among ballplayers made headlines. Now those concerns seem to have drifted away -- and if attendance figures are any indication, fans are enjoying the games and forgetting the controversy. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis.

Already a seasoned journalist and playwright, Fred Bornet came to the United States in 1939 from his native Belgium. Two years later he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and served as a combat photographers. He recalls the war in Europe through his journal entries.

Host Michel Martin gets a breakdown of the election night news with former Obama White House advisor Corey Ealons, and Republican strategist Ron Christie. They discuss what's next for the GOP, and how President Obama cobbled together his victory.

Jeff Lunden reports on one of the few critical and commercial hits this season on Broadway. Wonderful Town is a 50-year-old production created by Leonard Bernstein, Adolph Green and Betty Comden.

The Showtime cable series Dead Like Me, about the Grim Reapers who live among us to escort the newly dead to their reward, has returned for a second season on Sunday nights. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to the show's executive producer, John Masius, about the evolution of the series and future story lines.