Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

News From NPRRSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

News From NPR

Pages

The Two-Way
1:31 pm
Tue April 2, 2013

James Hansen, NASA Scientist Who Raised Climate Change Alarm, Is Retiring

Credit Christopher Furlong / Getty Images
NASA scientist and climatologist James Hansen in 2009.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

"After nearly half a century of research in planetary and climate science for NASA, James E. Hansen is retiring on Wednesday to pursue his passion for climate activism without the hindrances that come with government employment," The New York Times' Dot Earth blog writes.

Read more
The Two-Way
12:56 pm
Tue April 2, 2013

NRA Task Force Recommends Training School Personnel Who Want To Be Armed

Credit Shawn Thew / EPA /LANDOV
Former Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson holds up his task force's report during a news conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

A task force launched by the National Rifle Association after the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., has come back with a report that recommends the creation of programs that give additional weapons training to school resource officers as well as "selected and designated school personnel" who could then carry arms.

Read more
The Two-Way
12:49 pm
Tue April 2, 2013

In Spain, A Mattress That Lets Your Money Rest Easy

Credit Courtesy of Descanso Santos Suenos
My Mattress Safe retails for about $1,120.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By Lauren Frayer

Originally published on Tue April 2, 2013 12:57 pm

Read more
The Picture Show
12:38 pm
Tue April 2, 2013

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
A photograph taken from behind a burqa, Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Two Afghan women clad in burqas whisper in a shop in Kabul, 2007. Despite advances in women's rights since the fall of the Taliban, most Afghan women, especially outside the capital, still opt for the all-enveloping cloak.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Afghans feed pigeons at the Shrine of Hazrat Ali in northern Afghanistan, 2009.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An unidentified Afghan prostitute fixes her headscarf to cover her face in Kabul, 2008. Afghanistan is one of the world's most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An Afghan policeman is seen through a hole at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An Afghan girl brushes her hair in Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Boys play on a water pipe in a cemetery in Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An Afghan girl bathes her brother near a building where refugees live in Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Abdul Malak, who lost his leg in a mine blast during grazing, stands on a prosthetic limb — with his daughter nearby — in a Parwan province village north of Kabul, 2008.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Laila, 7, works on homework in her home in Kabul, 2008.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Arazo, 19 (from right), Tabasum, 20, and Shamayal, 25, who fled from abusive family members, stand for a picture in Kabul, 2009.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An Afghan boy selling balloons waits for customers in Kabul, 2009.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Afghan women kiss Shiite religious flags during Ashura in Kabul, 2009.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
Ten-year-old Nahid grabs a thread while weaving carpet in her home in Kabul, 2010. Carpets, made mostly in the country's north, are one of Afghanistan's few major exports.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
A photograph taken from behind a burqa, Kabul, 2007.
Credit Farzana Wahidy / AP
An Afghan girl blows bubble gum while cooking for her family in Kabul, 2007.
Credit Courtesy of Farzana Wahidy
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Tue April 2, 2013 5:44 pm

Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a "very closed, very dark time." To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.

Read more
Shots - Health News
11:59 am
Tue April 2, 2013

The Hidden Limitations Of Health Savings Accounts

Credit iStockphoto.com
In order to get the tax advantages of a health savings account, the health plan it's linked to has to meet certain criteria.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Tue April 2, 2013 12:20 pm

Health plan deductibles keep getting higher — the proportion of workers with a deductible that topped $1,000 for single coverage nearly tripled in the past five years, to 34 percent.

Read more

Pages