China has announced it will substantially increase its military budget this year, another in a series of annual increases that will boost China's defense spending to nearly thirty billion dollars. Today's announcement comes on the eve of that country...
Some people carry an old hurt around for a long time. Is it possible to forgive someone if they don't apologize or express remorse for their actions? The commentator Mubarak Dahir has been wrestling with that question. I got another letter from my fa...
This is Day to Day, I am Alex.C.If you've been in the supermarket lately,looking at the tabloid covers,you must be aware of the weight problems of Kirstie Alley,the former star of the sitcom Cheers is no longer so slender as she once was.But Day to D...
The spring season of the latter years of high school are an anxious time when students will , choose one: fall in love, drink too much, or whatever's available, work really hard, slack off, make your hopes soar, dash them to the depth or all of the a...
The former head of Worldcom is back on the witness stand today in federal court in New York city. Bernard Ebbers is charged with fraud for his role in the massive accounting scandal that took place at Worldcom between 2000 and 2002. Yesterday he took...
From NPR news, this is all things considered. I'm Janifer Ladon. 42 governors gathered in Washington this weekend for a conference on high school education. There is widespread concern that a high school diploma doesn't mean much these days. And too...
A major winter storm is making its way up the east coast. Six to ten inches of snow is expected in the New York City area with 14 inches possible in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Not to be outdone, the Midwest is shivering through the arrival...
The nation's biggest department store chain Federated is buying its No.2 rival--May Department Stores in a deal valued at 11 billion dollars.The combination forms a chain with nearly a thousand retail outlets and as NPR's Scott Hosley reports, the mo...
Time now for business news. There was plenty of bad news on the economic front yesterday. Stock prices slid while the cost of a barrel of oil rose by more than two dollars and forty cents. One reason for the moves was a steep drop in the value of the...
Back now with Day to Day, I'm Madeleine Brand. It's President's Day, so let's talk about presidents and the economy and the old axiom that presidents don't have much control over the economy is not always true. Marketplace's Matthew Algeo joins...