October 15, 2013 - 10:00am
The Quiet Dell murders were one of the first big, sensational crime stories of the Depression: A serial killer corresponded with vulnerable widows who he met through lonely hearts clubs, then lured them to their deaths. As a child, writer Jayne Anne Phillips learned about the murders from her mother,...
October 15, 2013 - 10:00am
It's hard to picture Paul McCartney — one of history's most celebrated songwriters, a figure of incalculable importance to modern music and pop culture — fretting over anything, least of all filling arena seats. But as NPR's Robert Siegel discovered, a few circumstances can still make the ex-Beatle sweat. McCartney's...
October 15, 2013 - 10:00am
Tuesday, Oct. 15, is the filing deadline for the roughly 12 million Americans who received an extension on their 2012 taxes. And having 90 percent of its staff furloughed in the partial government shutdown doesn't mean the IRS doesn't want your money. "The IRS is shut down, but the tax...
October 15, 2013 - 9:58am
The open enrollment for Medicare programs that began Tuesday will run into December. While the Medicare website doesn't have the problems found in the new federal health system's sites, the government shutdown means that information "may not be up to date," the site warns its users. For Newscast, NPR's Julie...
October 15, 2013 - 9:51am
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass' tense movie about the April 2009 hijacking of the freighter Maersk Alabama by four Somali pirates, is a love song to the patience-through-overwhelming-fire-superiority of the U.S. military. Unless, of course, it's a Dog Day Afternoon -style chronicle of the final days of a few sympathetically inept...
October 15, 2013 - 9:42am
The man the U.S. alleges is the top al-Qaida operative who orchestrated the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday at a Federal Court in Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal reports : "Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, also known as Abu...
October 15, 2013 - 9:23am
The Washington Post has published new revelations about the National Security Agency's electronic snooping, indicating that the intelligence branch gathers millions of contact lists from personal email accounts and instant messaging around the world. The new information is attributed by the Post to "senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided...
October 15, 2013 - 8:55am
Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty to three criminal charges on Tuesday that stem from allegations of sexual harassment by three unnamed women. The Democratic mayor and nine-term congressman, if you remember, was forced to resign from his office after allegations of harassment mounted over the summer. Filner...
October 15, 2013 - 8:04am
Parents learn the hard way that late bedtimes make for cranky kids the next day. But inconsistent bedtimes may have a greater effect on children's behavior, a study says. Kids who didn't go to bed on a regular schedule had more behavior problems at home and at school. When those...
October 15, 2013 - 8:01am
In 2007, decades after Maxine Powell had retired from training a generation of black artists at Motown, a reporter from a Cleveland television station asked if anyone had been particularly difficult for her to work with. Powell cut her off before she finished. "I don't have that," she said. "No...
