Dec 17 Watch Funerals Begin for Shooting Victims of Sandy Hook, New Details on Shooter Lanza Funerals Begin for Shooting Victims of Sandy Hook, New Details on Shooter Lanza… Continue watching
Dec 17 Meet Tim Scott: South Carolina’s Next Senator U.S. Rep. Tim Scott speaks Monday to reporters at the South Carolina Statehouse after being introduced by Governor Nikki Haley to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat. Photo by Tim Dominick/The State/MCT via Getty Images When Rep. Tim Scott… Continue reading
Dec 17 In India, Modi Is a Popular, Polarizing Figure in Politics By News Desk // Narendra Modi, chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, is running for a fourth term in elections that wrap up this week. Results are expected Thursday. He's hailed for his efforts to revive the economy in western India… Continue reading
Dec 17 Weekly Poem: ‘Messiah: Christmas Portions’ By Tom LeGro Poet Mark Doty reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."… Continue reading
Dec 17 A Dramatic End for the Twin Moon Spacecraft This artist's concept shows one of the GRAIL satellites inserting itself into orbit. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech. The twin GRAIL robots, the washing-machine sized satellites that have been zipping around the moon for nearly a year, will end their… Continue reading
Dec 17 Can an Ex Collect from His Older Ex-Wife When She Hits 66? By Paul Solman Photo by CSA Images via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of you to write in that… Continue reading
Dec 17 Food for 9 Billion: Four Steps Toward a Climate-Friendly Diet In the next installment of the "Food for 9 Billion" series airing Monday on American Public Media's "Marketplace", Jon Miller of Homelands Productions visits Baltimore to explore how food producers are dealing with climate change and… Continue reading
Dec 17 Council on Foreign Relations: What Should U.S. Policy Be in Syria? Rebel fighters take part in a demonstration against the Syrian regime in Aleppo on Dec. 7. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images Syria's Vice president Farouk al-Sharaa told a Lebanese-based newspaper in an interview published Monday that "We are… Continue reading
Dec 17 This Week on the Hill Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Members of Congress showed up late, because of fog (though in San Francisco they may have called it a clear day) and left early, but we dutifully reported, scraped and beat our… Continue reading
Dec 17 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro North Koreans look at the art exhibition "The great leader Kim Jong-il comrade is with us forever," which was held last week to honor the memory of the late leader, who died one year ago Monday. Continue reading