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Arizona Immigration Activists Mobilize Latino Vote

For years, Maricopa County, Ariz., has been ground zero in the debate over immigration.On one hand, the massive county, which includes the state capital of Phoenix, has a growing Latino population. On...

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Arizona Tea Party Activists Say They're Back

Maricopa County, Ariz., where 3 out of 5 Republicans in the state live, has become a hotbed of Tea Party activism.That's where the head of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party lives. His name is Wesley...

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Immigration Spurs A Rare Split Among Ariz. Mormons

Mitt Romney is the most famous Mormon running for office this fall. But he's far from the only one.In Arizona, two other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Rep. Jeff Flake and...

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Sandy Continues To Disrupt Lives As It Heads West

Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Sandy has spoken. Over the past 24 hours, the storm has...

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Obama Administration To File Brief Urging Supreme Court To Strike Down Prop. 8

The Obama administration is set to file a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. Nina Totenberg talks to Audie...

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Rivalries And Infighting Could Follow In Wake Of Chavez's Death

Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Joining us now to talk about what comes next is NPR's Tom Gjelten. He's covered Latin America for us.And, Tom, Hugo Chavez, such a dominating figure in Venezuela. What...

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Senate Confirms Brennan As CIA Director

The Senate easily confirmed the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director, that following the dramatics of Sen. Rand Paul, who filibustered against it for nearly 13 hours on Wednesday night. Is this...

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Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag

Lillian Cahn, co-founder of Coach Leatherwear Co., died March 4 at the age of 89. Cahn was the force behind today's high-end leather handbags.Back in the 1960s, she and her husband, Miles Cahn, were...

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Charges Dropped Against Man Accused Of Sending Ricin Letters

Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Mysterious new developments in Mississippi today in the case...

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U.S. Obtained AP Journalists' Phone Records

Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today we learned of some news from the Associated Press in which the AP is at the center of the story. The newswire service reports that the Justice Department secretly...

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A Look Back At How Newspapers Covered The Civil Rights Movement

Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish in Birmingham, Alabama....

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How The Civil Rights Movement Was Covered In Birmingham

As the Civil Rights Movement was unfolding across the US in 1963, the entire nation had its eyes on climactic events taking place in Southern cities like Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss. But...

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The Desegregation Of Birmingham's Golf Courses

Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. All this week, I'm in...

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Breaking Golf's Color Barrier In Birmingham

This week, All Things Considered host Audie Cornish traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to cover the 50th anniversary of the tumultuous civil rights protests that happened there. It's all part of NPR's...

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NSA Leaker Sets Sights On South America, But Why Ecuador?

Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The U.S. continues its cat and mouse game with the man who confessed to leaking NSA secrets, Edward Snowden. After spending the last few weeks in Hong Kong, Snowden...

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House Republicans Start Crafting Their Own Immigration Bill

House Republicans huddled behind closed doors to consider their options on immigration on Wednesday. The Senate passed an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship, but conservatives in...

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Where Are All Of Wyomings Escalators?

There is a reported paucity of moving staircases in the Cowboy State. And that shortcoming has been posited as a argument for Wyoming to have fewer than its allotted pair of Senators. Audie Cornish and...

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Former Goldman Sachs Trader Found Liable For Fraud

Former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre was found liable on six of seven counts on Thursday. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tourre of misleading investors in a mortgage-linked security.

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Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaking 300 Tons Of Tainted Water Daily

The Japanese government has announced that radioactive groundwater is leaking from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. To try and stop it, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the plant, has...

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Unemployment Claims Drop To Pre-Recession Levels

More than 330,000 people filed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week. That sounds like a big number — and is a slight increase over the previous week — but it's being taken as some...

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