Search results for

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Lynda Unowsky from Hot Springs Village, Ark. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KUAR in Little Rock.)

Officials in the village of Lake Placid and the Town of North Elba are planning to hire an economic development director.

Representative Claudia Tenney (R-Canandaigua) is hosting a tele-town hall event Wednesday evening.

With entries filmed in deserts and on mountains, in basements and bedrooms, alongside four-legged friends and more, this video features some of the many entries we received to this year's Contest.

The U.S. Senate has taken the first step towards allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By a vote of 51-49, opponents were defeated in an effort to remove drilling from the Senate budget resolution.

Forty years ago, Congress decided that existing anti-discrimination laws were not enough to overcome racism in the voting process. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped to tumble the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls.

Hear some of the action from the nail-biting final rounds of the 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year, 273 kids came to Washington in the hopes of winning the competition.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s young, mostly left-wing students and radicals found a voice on FM community radio across the country. Ken Sleeman was the general manager of one such station, WGTB-FM in Washington DC. He shares some of his recordings from that time.

The rate of home foreclosure is now three times its historic rate — "so large that it threatens the entire economy." Congressional Oversight Panel chair Elizabeth Warren discusses the problem — and possible solutions.