• Russian forces bombard targets across Ukraine as official warns 'worst is yet to come'

    Russian forces bombard targets across Ukraine as official warns 'worst is yet to come'

    Mar 03, 2022 11:55 PM EST

    Markiyan Paranyak (through translator): Yes, absolutely. This is the task of every Ukrainian right now, to defend our country. Even women and children are trying to stop tanks with their bare hands. Nick Schifrin: Last Sunday, they detained Chechnyans they called saboteurs. Lviv's mayor confirmed to us that 10 ...

  • Spilling into streets and city squares, Russian citizens protest the war in Ukraine

    Spilling into streets and city squares, Russian citizens protest the war in Ukraine

    Mar 02, 2022 11:50 PM EST

    ... ordered a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Woman (through translator): War must be stopped. It must be. It's crazy what's going on right now. We should all shout no to war. Ryan Chilcote: Many protesters say they don't want to feel as if they have Ukrainian ...

  • How disinformation around Jan. 6 riot has downplayed violence, divided Americans

    How disinformation around Jan. 6 riot has downplayed violence, divided Americans

    Jan 05, 2022 11:40 PM EST

    Here's Republican Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona last month: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ): These are dads, brothers, veterans, teachers, all political prisoners who continue to be persecuted and endure the pain of unjust suffering. Amna Nawaz: So too with the death of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran ...

  • Recalling influential people who died in 2021

    Recalling influential people who died in 2021

    Dec 30, 2021 10:22 PM EST

    ... performer who was "Weekend Update" host when Bill Clinton and O.J. Simpson provided comic fodder during the 1990s. Sept. 14. Jane Powell, 92. The bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood's golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and danced with ...

  • Meet Rosalind Franklin, a sidelined figure in the history of DNA science

    Meet Rosalind Franklin, a sidelined figure in the history of DNA science

    Dec 03, 2021 10:09 PM EST

    Excerpts from "The Secret of Life," Chapter 6 By Howard Markel As a little girl, Rosalind distinguished herself from her siblings (one older brother, David; two younger brothers, Colin and Roland; and a younger sister, Jenifer) by being quiet of voice, observant of those around her, and perceptive in her ...

  • How friendly experiments led Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to record 'Raise the Roof'

    How friendly experiments led Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to record 'Raise the Roof'

    Nov 22, 2021 11:20 PM EST

    ... fail and to able to walk away is crucial. Jeffrey Brown: The original version of "The Price of Love" written and recorded by The Everly Brothers in 1966 surrounds its painful lyrics with upbeat pop energy. Now it's something else. Robert Plant: You make it lustrous and perhaps a ...

  • Bowing to protests, India's Modi agrees to repeal farm laws

    Bowing to protests, India's Modi agrees to repeal farm laws

    Nov 19, 2021 01:30 PM EST

    ... shortages. While the government said it was willing to pledge the guaranteed prices would continue, the farmers wanted legislation saying such prices were their legal right. They contended that without guarantees, they would be at the mercy of the markets and that would spell disaster, especially for the more than ...

  • Chemical shortage inflates paints and plastics prices

    Chemical shortage inflates paints and plastics prices

    Sep 29, 2021 06:04 PM EST

    ... grab products and sit on them for weeks or months so that when the job starts we have it." Andrew Moore, a clerk at Ricciardi Brothers in Philadelphia, said the store has been running short of lower-grade paints that large contractors use, though here's ample supply of higher ...

  • Colombia's President Duque on environmental terrorism, migration and democracy

    Colombia's President Duque on environmental terrorism, migration and democracy

    Sep 20, 2021 10:30 PM EST

    ... what different should the Biden administration be doing? Ivan Duque: Well, first of all, I should mention, Judy, that a country like Colombia is embracing right now a very strong fraternal migration policy. As you know, we are granting temporary protective status to 1.8 million Venezuelan brothers and sisters ...

  • 20 years after 9/11, Dearborn market helps unify Arab community

    20 years after 9/11, Dearborn market helps unify Arab community

    Sep 11, 2021 07:44 PM EST

    ... kind of create a bit of a travel guide to halal eating in the US.  Ahmed Hashem: That’s it. So we started in Dearborn, right. Because most of Dearborn is already our our base and already understand what we're doing and know us maybe on a personal level ...