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Sunday Night Forecast: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meteors The Lyrid shower is caused by Earth passing through the orbit of a comet known as Thatcher. The best time to watch should be in the early hours of Monday morning, just before dawn. |
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First Residents Allowed To Return To Damaged Homes In West, Texas In West, Texas, some of the town's citizens whose homes were damaged by Wednesday's massive fertilizer plant explosion are returning to their homes Saturday, after authorities declared parts of the area safe. But a curfew will be in place, and other areas remain off-limits. |
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Boat's Owner Hailed As A Hero After Bombing Suspect Tsarnaev Is Found Watertown, Mass., resident David Henneberry's has been hailed as a hero for telling police that bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be hiding in the boat he keeps in his back yard. Boston State Police have released images showing what the authorities saw from a helicopter as the wounded Tsarnaev hid under a tarp. |
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Watertown Residents Cheer Being 'Liberated' By Bomb Suspect's Arrest After days spent living in apprehension and fear following Monday's bomb attack at the Boston Marathon, residents celebrated the capture of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday night. |
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Boston Bombings Point To Growing Threat Of Homegrown Terrorism Most major terrorist attacks against the U.S. have originated abroad. But as details of the Boston Marathon bombings emerge, reports point to two young men of Chechen origin who were seemingly fully integrated into American society. |
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The Tsarnaev Brothers: What We Know About The Boston Bombing Suspects Information about brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev has turned from a trickle into a flood this week, after police publicly identified them as suspects. Friends and former coaches say the people they remember don't seem capable of carrying out days of violence. |
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Sexual Assault Of Child Sparks Protests In India's Capital A young girl is in serious condition in a New Delhi hospital after being found Wednesday, two days after her parents reported her missing. Authorities say they have arrested a 24-year old man for the crime, but protesters in the capital Saturday faulted the police for responding too slowly. |
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A 'Tough, Smart, Proud Town' Meets Terror With Determination The bombing attack at the Boston Marathon Monday could have caused scrambling and panic. Instead, the tragedy revealed the city's character as people rushed to help each other. |
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A Thank You To Al Neuharth, Founder Of 'USA Today' He willed the nation's newspaper into life in 1982. And he insisted on some basic rules that sometimes get forgotten. |
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Boston: A Real-World Test Of Homeland Security The bombing and its aftermath revealed a massive, highly coordinated homeland security apparatus that can organize a mass casualty disaster or lock down a major American city at a moment's notice. Or both. |
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Strong Quake In China Kills Dozens, Injures Thousands The quake happened near the site of the devastating 2008 temblor that killed more than 90,000 people. |
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MIT Officer Died Protecting His Community, In Job He Loved The grisly week that began at the Boston Marathon on Monday left a police officer dead. Sean Collier, an officer with the MIT campus police, was pronounced dead Thursday night. He's remembered as passionate and dedicated to his profession. |
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The Search For Answers In Boston: Why? How? Anyone Else? With the capture Friday night of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the story moves into a new phase — one of trying to answer critical questions. In particular, are there more bombs and are other people involved? |
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Suspects' Chechen Roots Draw Eyes To Russia Much has been made of the fact that the suspects in the Boston bombings are ethnic Chechens, with links to the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia. Russian reaction to the story, however, appears to be as complex as the region's turbulent history. |
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Two Decades Later, Some Branch Davidians Still Believe Twenty years ago, federal agents clashed with David Koresh's Branch Davidian community near Waco, Texas. The standoff ended with a raid and fire in which some 80 children, women and men perished. It's remembered as one of the darkest chapters in American law enforcement. |
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Officials Seek Answers In Aftermath Of Deadly Plant Explosion The search for survivors has ended, and investigators are trying to figure out what led to fiery explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on Wednesday. At least 14 people are confirmed dead, many of them first responders. |
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How It Unfolded: Boston Bombing Suspect Taken Into Custody The suspect had managed to stay just outside a 20-block search perimeter, but a tip from a Watertown, Mass., resident and coordinated law enforcement led to his apprehension Friday night. |
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Stubbornly, Manchin Maintains Optimism On Background Checks Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who lent his name to bipartisan legislation that would have extended background checks for gun purchasers to gun shows and online sales, isn't letting go. At least not yet. Others in the Senate, however, seem ready to move on. |
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Fertilizer Shows Its Deadly Side This week's explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant in Texas reminds us of the "cursed" side of the nitrogen that powers most of agriculture around the world. Through habit or necessity, we've come to depend on it. But there are costs. |
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FAA OKs Boeing's 787 Battery Fix More insulation between battery cells and a new steel box to contain a potential fire are Boeing's solution for battery woes that grounded the "Dreamliner." |
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CDC: U.S. Hospitals Should Be Vigilant For Bird Flu While there is still conflicting reports about how easily the new strain can be transmitted between humans, the CDC says early intervention is key. |
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French Family Set Free After Cameroon Kidnapping France said discreet talks to free the family had been ongoing but that no ransom was paid. |
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Mississippi River's Many 'Parents' Look To Unify The Mississippi's stakeholders met recently to discuss the river's pressing needs, any common ground and how to speak with one voice in advocating for the nation's largest river system. Currently, the river has what one stakeholder calls "800 parents" — and that leaves the river an orphan. |
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Eerie Images From An Empty Boston And Cambridge Images collected from social media show veritable ghost towns Friday after local residents were ordered to "shelter in place" during a manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. |
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What It Looked Like From Inside Boston's Lockdown Area residents found themselves stuck inside of a crime scene Thursday night and Friday morning. Pictures taken behind window screens and on top of roofs gave the world a look at what people were seeing. |
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Boston On Lockdown: 'Today Is So Much Scarier' With a manhunt underway for a suspect in Monday's bombings, the area in and around Boston has been virtually shut down. Transit isn't running, and most businesses and schools are closed. Most people are safe at home, but many are unnerved. |
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Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment. |
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Dennis Lehane On 'Messing With The Wrong City' Author Dennis Lehane talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his New York Times op-ed, "Messing with the Wrong City," which expressed his love for his hometown. |
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Journalists Charles Sennott And Seth Mnookin Discuss Boston Manhunt Charles Sennott, vice president, executive editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the ongoing manhunt in Boston. Seth Mnookin, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, describes live-tweeting the events at MIT. |
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What David Lynch And Tylenol Can Tell You About The Brain Tylenol may relieve more than physical pain; it may dull existential aches, too. Researchers say their work is consistent with a growing body of research that suggests the brain processes physical and emotional pain in similar ways. |
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Fast breaking developments in the marathon bombing manhunt put the city of Boston on lockdown. Host Michel Martin checks in with Boston resident Neil Minkoff, and gets perspective on keeping a major city safe during a manhunt from former London police official, Brian Paddick. |
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Breaking Down Senate's Immigration Overhaul Bill The new Senate proposal to overhaul immigration policy is more than 800 pages long. Host Michel Martin gets a crash course on some of the details and what they mean for immigrants and the rest of the country. She's joined by immigration lawyer Sonia Ansari and Matt Barreto from the polling group, Latino Decisions. |
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Listeners sound off on the program's hottest conversations as editor Ammad Omar joins host Michel Martin for Back Talk. This week listeners respond to a study that says the U.S. tortured detainees after 9/11. |
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Frozen Food Gets Ready For Its Image Upgrade The frozen food industry wants you to know that even though its food isn't "fresh," it's still good. And they're paying big bucks to convince you. |
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Watertown Residents Hunker Down As Manhunt Unfolds While the manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continued Thursday night into Friday morning, residents of Watertown and surrounding communities were hiding in bedrooms, looking out from roofs and peering from behind locked doors. Many did not sleep as helicopters swirled overhead. |
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A Timeline Of The Boston Manhunt Not 24 hours after the FBI released images of two suspects in Monday's blasts, one of the suspects is dead and the other is still at large. |
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Book News: Two Authors Make 'Time' List Of '100 Most Influential People' Also: Penguin offers to drop Apple ebook deals over European antitrust case; a page out of Thomas Pynchon's latest novel; and a long-overdue apology. |
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With Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible' An international team of disease detectives are in China to investigate an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, H7N9. The biggest puzzle right now is where these infections are coming from, as testing poultry has turned up very few infected birds. |
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Where Is He? Massive Manhunt In Boston For Suspected Bomber The scene around Boston Friday was chaotic. Police were going house to house in Watertown as they searched for "suspect No. 2" in the bombings. "Suspect No. 1," known as "black hat," was said to be dead. People across the area were told to shelter in place. |
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Post-Chavez Venezuela Grows More, Not Less, Polarized A divide that began under President Hugo Chavez has grown deeper in the weeks since his death. "The country is simply split in two," says one Venezuelan, in the wake of violent protests after the disputed presidential election that Chavez's hand-picked heir won by a slim margin. |
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Losing A Leg, But Gaining A Sense Of Purpose Jack Richmond was a young father when his leg was crushed in a work accident. Though in denial at first that it would need to be amputated, he quickly realized he could share his experience to help other amputees, as he tells his daughter, Reagan, on a visit to StoryCorps. |
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As Florida Bill Looks To Aid Feral Cats, Opponents Claw Back Lawmakers are considering a measure that would offer legal protection to groups that trap, sterilize and return feral cats to their colonies. But wildlife groups and some homeowners say the cats are a threat to public health — and to other animals. |
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Historically Speaking, No Surprise In Senate Gun Control Vote If it seems perplexing why an idea that has broad support nationally could fail to pass the U.S. Senate, here's an important reminder: The Senate is not a democratic institution. In fact, it was structured to give sparsely populated states the ability to stop the majority's will. And that's what happened on background checks. |
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Newtown Residents: Senate Gun Votes 'A Slap In The Face' Following the Senate's rejection Wednesday of a range of gun control measures, including universal background checks, many in Newtown, Conn., are reacting with surprise and disappointment. Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse was one of those killed, says Wednesday was "a shameful day for Washington." |
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Listen: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach's 'Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor' Ma said he thought of the piece as "a struggle for hope," capturing the feeling in Boston perfectly. |
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NASA Discovers New Earth-Like Planets Around Distant Stars The three planets are not only in what's considered to be the "habitable" zone, but they are also near Earth-sized. |
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Tracking 'Killer Electrons' Help Predict Risks To Satellites Scientists say the sun is now in an active period, creating more space weather that could interfere with the satellites we depend on for TV, cellphones and weather forecasts. From member station KQED, Lauren Sommer reports that researchers are taking advantage of the weather to learn more about the Earth's magnetic field. |
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Ex-Justice Of The Peace Charged With Killings In North Texas In what has been described as a revenge plot, Eric Williams and his wife are charged with the murders of a Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor. Williams is already in custody for allegedly making a terroristic threat. |
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Kepler Telescope Spots 3 New Planets In The 'Goldilocks Zone' The planets orbiting far-off stars are close to Earth-sized and are a distance from their suns that makes their surfaces neither too hot nor too cold. Since launching in 2009, the Kepler telescope has identified more than 100 planets. |
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Walking While Old: Seniors Face Greatest Death Risk Older people are much more likely than youngsters to be killed crossing the street, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And men are more likely to be killed than women, regardless of age. |
