From NPR news, this is All Things Considered. I'm Michelle Noris. and I am Robert Seagull. China has been in the news a lot lately. Its economy is booming. Its military is modernizing. But some of the country's most important changes are taking plac...
By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 10 November 2006 watch Gates profile Robert Gates, President Bush's nominee to become the new U.S. Defense Secretary, is a former CIA Director with decades of experience in the national security field. He has also se...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 07 November 2006 South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon will succeed Kofi Annan as United Nations secretary-general on January 1. South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon gestures while answering questions at a pr...
By Ade Astuti Washington, DC 19 October 2006 watch Muslim Filmmaker report Omar Mahmoud, Muslim-American filmmaker The image of Muslim youths in the U.S. is often perceived as one of alienation and firebrand sermons. But life for young American Musl...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City, NY 08 September 2006 watch Sept 11 NYPD Detective September 11th, 2001 was a day that changed the world. For one New York City police detective who moonlights as a still photographer, it was a day that changed his ca...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 01 August 2006 Fidel Castro Ruz was born August 13, 1926, on a sugar plantation in eastern Cuba, the son of a Spanish immigrant landholder and a household servant. An intellectually gifted student, he attended Jesuit schoo...
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - We Profile Five Special People Who Died This Year By Katherine Gypson and Caty Weaver Broadcast: Sunday, December 18, 2005 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm...
Dan Robinson Of the eight people seeking the 2004 Democratic nomination for president, four currently serve in Congress - two in the Senate, and two in the House of Representatives. One of them is Den...
Deborah Tate U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts is one of eight Democrats hoping to deny President Bush a second term in the White House next November. Correspondent Deborah Tate has a profile o...
Kerry Sheridan The Reverend Al Sharpton became the only African-American presidential candidate seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 when Carol Mosely-Braun withdrew from the race Ja...
