Search results for

Illinois is the 10th US state to pass a law allowing courts to take guns away from people convicted of abusing a spouse. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that the law has found its most vocal opponents among the state's police officers, who now face the prospect of losing their service revolver if they are convicted of spousal abuse.

ebola virus, which infected a village in Zaire nine months ago and killed 300 people.

author of a new light-hearted book called >101 Ways to Get Your Adult Children To Move Out.

Oklahoma is seeing a spike in childhood cases of the respiratory virus RSV. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Cameron Mantor of the Oklahoma Children's Hospital about the outbreak.

aims in blocking the extension of the U.N. presence in Haiti. The U.N. Security Council finally agreed late yesterday to cut the size and duration of the mission.

Wales celebrates its patron saint, St. David, today. St. David, the Waterman, was called Dewi in Welsh. He is credited with winning a victory over the Saxons - who back in the fifth century - ruled what is now England. St. David told Welsh soldiers to wear leeks in their helmets so they could recognize each other on the battlefield. To mark the day, we hear the Welsh group YR Huntws (YEAR- HOON-tuss) singing a traditional Welsh hymm "The Bishop and the Peasant" or Yr Esgob A'R Gwiladwr (publisher Sain Publi

SUSAN DISCUSSES WITH WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL THIS WEEK'S ANNOUNCEMENT BY TELEVISION INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES THAT THEY WILL "VOLUNTARILY" INTRODUCE A RATINGS SYSTEM.

NPR'S MARY KAY MAGISTAD REPORTS FROM BANGKOK ON THE SUMMIT MEETING BETWEEN EUROPEAN UNION AND EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.

Noah speaks with Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab about the consequences of the bombings for PLO chairman Yasir Arafat. Kuttab says the bombings have placed Arafat in a delicate political position, in which he must balance Israel's demands for a crackdown on the militant Hamas organization and appearing like he is more concerned about Israeli security than the rights of his own people.

Daniel Pinkwater is paging through National Geographic and comes across a picture of a remote Chinese village that has bagel s. And bagels that he says look pretty good. He mourns that fact that you can get good bagels in China, but not where he lives just a hundred miles north of New York City. He is stuck with the frozen erzatz kind.