Dwindling Middle Class Has Repercussions For Small Towns
My parents moved away from Lincoln, Ill., two decades ago, when I was in college. I hardly ever get back there. But my mom still works in Lincoln, and it was to Lincoln I headed to meet her this fall,...
View ArticleHoping To Slim POW-MIA Bureaucracy, Hagel Makes One Out Of Two
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the creation of a new defense agency charged with merging the multiple divisions currently responsible for finding and identifying the more than 80,000...
View ArticleAlbuquerque Police Face Federal Scrutiny, Local Outrage
Kenneth Ellis III was shot and killed by police in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Albuquerque, N.M.He is among the dozens of people local police have shot over the last four years, 25 of whom have died. The...
View Article17 Primary Candidates Vie For Rep. Henry Waxman's Seat
When the Democrat from Southern California announced his retirement earlier this year, he opened up a seat that had been occupied for decades. The top-two vote getters will face off in November.
View ArticleAre Life Spans Getting Longer? It Depends On How Wealthy You Are
While life expectancies are getting longer for those who are well off, life spans for poor women are actually getting shorter. The stories of two women, from two very different places, illustrate the...
View ArticleOn Calif. Cattle Ranch, Students Wrangle With Meaning Of Manhood
For All Things Considered's "Men in America" series, NPR's Kelly McEvers sent this report on Deep Springs College — the all-male college that her husband attended, and where he and McEvers have both...
View ArticleTommy Ramone, Co-Founder Of The Ramones, Dies At 65
Tommy Ramone, born Tom Erdelyi, has died at age 65. The drummer was the last living member of the legendary punk band he helped create.
View ArticleAfter Factory Layoffs, Struggling To Stay On The Economic Ladder
Lynn Eldredge has worked hard for the past three decades. But somehow, it's still not quite enough.Eldredge started his working life in the Air Force, and eventually found a steady job in a factory in...
View ArticleWhere Activists See Gray, Albuquerque Police See Black And White
To understand the tension between the cops and some people in Albuquerque, you have to go back to a Tuesday in April.It was after the Justice Department had accused the Albuquerque police of engaging...
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Islamic State Beheads British Aid Worker, Makes New Threat
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. People who call themselves the Islamic State have...
View ArticleIs 'Leaning In' The Only Formula For Women's Success In Science?
Don't wait to be invited or encouraged to make a career in science, engineering or technology, Frances Arnold advises the young women she teaches at the California Institute of Technology. If you're a...
View ArticleEbola Gatekeeper: 'When The Tears Stop, You Continue The Work'
Wencke Petersen came to Liberia in late August to do what she normally does for Doctors Without Borders in hotspots all over the world — manage supplies.But the supplies she was meant to organize...
View ArticleAs Ebola Pingpongs In Liberia, Cases Disappear Into The Jungle
There's a new phase of Ebola in Liberia. Epidemiologists call it pingponging.Back in March, the disease was found in the rural areas. Then as people came to the capital to seek care, it started growing...
View ArticleEbola Is Changing Course In Liberia. Will The U.S. Military Adapt?
The Ebola outbreak started in rural areas, but by June it had reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia.By August, the number of people contracting the Ebola virus in the country was doubling every week. The...
View ArticleCampaign Rallies Resume In Liberia, Raising Uncertainty Over Ebola Risk
In Liberia, the number of new cases of Ebola is going down, but the risk has not been eliminated. To help contain the disease, schools are set to be closed until March.But a national Senate election,...
View ArticleOne Village's Story: How Ebola Began And How It Ends
There's a clearing in the jungle in central Liberia that now serves as an Ebola burial ground. Every day, a woman who works as a nurse in the nearby Ebola treatment unit, or ETU, changes from her...
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To Fight ISIS, You Have To Understand Its Ideology
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: We're going to examine now the ideology driving one of today's most dangerous extremist threats.
View ArticleAnother Shooting Puts Albuquerque Police Back In The Spotlight
On Tuesday night, officers shot and killed a suspect who they say fired at them. Earlier this week, the county district attorney said she would seek murder charges against two other officers in the...
View ArticleSaudi King Abdullah, Who Laid Foundation For Reform, Dies
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has died. He was 90 and had been hospitalized for a lung infection.Abdullah was born before Saudi Arabia was even a country. It was the early 1920s,...
View ArticleFamily's Long Fight With Pentagon Returns Name To Unknown Soldier
The remains of a World War II soldier who died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines — and the subject of a joint NPR/ProPublica investigation last year — have been identified as Pvt. Arthur...
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