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  • Host: Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
  • For two hours every weekday, hosts Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features.
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  • Genres: News
  • Location: Washington, DC
  • Language: English
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The xx: Switching Roles In Song

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft are young Londoners who lead an extremely spare band called The xx. They touch on Kraftwerk and The Cure, but never equal their volume. For the coolest kids on the scene, The xx's members sound reassuringly vulnerable.

Debit Cards Aren't Just For Gifts This Holiday

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
More people than ever will buy their holiday presents this season with debit cards. But people are using debit and credit cards for much more than just gift purchases. Even Salvation Army bell ringers are accepting plastic this year.

Hondurans Seek Resolution Of Political Unrest

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Honduras are hoping that the recently held presidential elections will put the nation's political crisis in the past. Like many Hondurans, one man in the northern coastal town of Tela says he just wants the situation settled.

Author Urges Broad Anti-Opium Afghan Strategy

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Gretchen Peters, author of Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda,, argues that going after the poppy problem in Afghanistan has to be a fundamental part of the war effort. And that for a strategy to succeed, she says, it has to be broad in scope.

McChrystal Expresses Confidence In Afghan Plan

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress Tuesday that he's confident he now has both the strategy and resources he needs in Afghanistan. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, initially wary of a troop increase coming before a crackdown on corruption, said he's satisfied that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed the right intentions.

Big Waves Delight Surfers In Hawaii

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
On the North Shore of Oahu, massive waves are pounding the coastline and delighting surfers. A huge storm in the Pacific is creating epic conditions for the annual big wave surfing championship.

How Consumers Can Affect Climate Change

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Changes in the way Americans drive, the appliances we use, and how much we recycle can lead to a significant reduction in carbon emissions, says the co-author of an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Michael Vanderberg says change can be significant even if not everyone takes part.

U.S. Envoy To Iraq: Blasts A Setback

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Coordinated attacks in Baghdad Tuesday killed at least 125 people and wounded hundreds the worst violence in Iraq's capital in more than a month. But Ambassador Christopher Hill says that despite this outburst of violence, overall security is improving.

Coordinated Blasts Kill More Than 125 In Baghdad

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
The bombings came as officials agreed to set March 7 as the date for national elections. U.S. and Iraqi officials have expressed concerns that an increase in violence would mar the country's elections and delay a planned U.S. troop withdrawal set for 2010.

Senate Democrats Near Compromise On Health Care

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
After tough negotiations, Senate Democrats are nearing a deal on a plan for offering health insurance through the government. It may not be the so-called public option discussed for months, but it could be the thing that finally gets a health care bill through the Senate.

Amid Scandal, Tiger Woods Merchandise Loses Luster

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
In his article Tiger for Sale, on the Daily Beast, Duff McDonald explores the impact the Woods scandal is having on the golf champion's memorabilia market and on his merchandise in toy stores. McDonald says Woods action figures at some retailers were selling at 33 percent less than their regular price.

The Unexamined Life Examined In 'Mrs. Bridge'

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Best-selling mystery novelist James Patterson may be known for his thrillers, but the little book that profoundly influenced his writing was far less conspicuous. Mrs. Bridge, the tale of a Kansas City husband and wife, would stay with him forever.

Letters: Zou Zou, Miles Davis

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Michele Norris and Robert Siegel update a story reported Monday, on safety concerns about the must-have toy of the 2009 holiday season. They also correctly identify the composer of the jazz piece Nefertiti.

American Woman Seeks Justice, Chinese Style

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Despite legal reforms, China still retains the practice of petitioning, in which aggrieved citizens petition higher authorities to overturn local government decisions. For the past year, one American woman living in China has sought vindication for her Chinese fiance.

High Court Skeptical Of Anti-Fraud Law

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that tests the constitutionality of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime to deprive shareholders of honest services. The law has been used to prosecute public officials and corporate executives. Opponents argue that the law is too broad.

Undertaker Hopes To Revive Kansas Town

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
Many small towns across rural America continue to see population declines. But the tiny town of Preston, Kan., is getting help from an unlikely source: An Arizona mortician who has set up shop there and hopes to draw business from a 50-mile radius.

Obama Lays Out Plan To Spur Jobs

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
President Obama said the country must spend its way out of the recession and create new incentives for hiring. The remarks came in an economic policy speech at the Brookings Institution.

Study: 30 Percent Of Americans Are Caregivers

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
A new study says that 66 million Americans provide care for an elderly parent, family member or a disabled child, and that caregiving has become an unpaid, part-time job. On average, caregivers provide 19 hours of help a week, and this causes people to miss work or to quit work altogether.

Plaintiff In Indian Case On Settlement

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
The federal government announced Tuesday a $3.4 billion settlement with Indian trust account holders after more than a century of mismanaging their money. Elouise Cobell, a lead plaintiff in the long-running lawsuit Cobell v. Salazar, says the settlement means a lot to her, but more for American Indians who have waited a long time for justice.

U.S. In $3B Settlement With American Indians

Tue, Dec 8 Listen
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday a $3 billion settlement with Indian tribes. This marks the end of a 13-year lawsuit brought against the government by Indian tribes over billions of dollars in valuable land and oil royalties.

Fugard's 'Have You Seen Us?': Looking Within Again

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
Have You Seen Us? is set in San Diego a first for playwright Athol Fugard, a South Africa native and one of the English theater's great humane bards. It's having a world premiere production at the Long Wharf Theatre, with Sam Waterston as the embittered, alcoholic academic at the center of the story.

Letters: Bishops, Jobs, Clancy

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
Listeners respond to the story on Catholic bishops and politics, as well as President Obama's jobs summit and the remembrance of Irish folk musician Liam Clancy. Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from listeners' e-mails.

Iraqi Political Deal Clears Way For U.S. Pullout

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
The passage of Iraq's new election law in a down-to-the-wire session of parliament means that U.S. combat troops are a step closer to beginning their phased withdrawal from the country next year after Iraqi elections.

Court Weighs Sarbanes-Oxley

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
In the wake of the financial scandal that destroyed Enron, Congress created an independent board to watch over the accounting of all publicly traded firms. In order that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have total independence from political influence, Congress deemed that its members be appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The court heard arguments Monday that challenge whether Congress went too far and overstepped the Separation of Powers clause of the...

U.S. Terror Suspect Charged In Mumbai Attack

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
David Coleman Headley was charged Monday with helping to plan the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Headley is the Chicago man who was arrested in October in connection with a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammmed. This new charge makes Headley the first American implicated in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people.

Climate Change Conference Begins

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
The climate talks opened Monday in Copenhagen, with more than 190 nations represented. The U.S. and China have pledged some actions already, but negotiators so far haven't even agreed about what the overall deal will look like.

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Health

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that greenhouse gas pollution is a threat to human health. That finding paves the way for the agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from factories, power plants and cars under the Clean Air Act if Congress doesn't pass legislation to cut emissions.

Consumer Group Cites Zhu Zhu Safety

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
One of the hottest toys of this holiday season, Zhu Zhu robotic hamsters, is under scrutiny for a possible safety issue. A consumer group claims that one variety of the toy contains unsafe levels of a toxic chemical. The manufacturer disputes the allegation.

U.S. Lowers Bailout Estimate By $200B

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
Large banks are repaying the bailout money they received much faster than expected. The administration says the cost of the TARP program will be about $200 billion less than estimated. Big financial firms are making profits again because the government has driven down borrowing costs for banks and safeguarded their debts.

Obama To Deliver Speech On Economy

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
Sandwiched between his speech on the Afghanistan troop build-up last week and two international speeches later this week, President Obama will deliver an economic policy address Tuesday. Patience with the pace of government action is running short on Capitol Hill, and many Democrats fear the public is starting to question whether Obama feels their pain.

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