Shots - Health Blog
5:37 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Calif. Runs With Health Law Without Waiting On Supreme Court

Credit iStockphoto.com
California lawmakers have been introducing legislation that would replicate key pieces of the federal law, including bills defining benefits and guaranteeing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:25 pm

Many states have done nothing to implement the health overhaul law, saying they'll wait to see how the Supreme Court rules.

Not California.

The country's most populous state got out in front first on implementing the law, and it hasn't slowed down in recent weeks as the rest of the country waits to hear from the high court.

Read more
Europe
5:30 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Greek Leftist Leader Up For 'Worst Job' In Europe

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 10:41 pm

A few short weeks ago, the Greek politician Alexis Tsipras was a young rebel leading Syriza, a fractious leftist coalition best known for anti-austerity protests. Now, his party could come in first in Sunday's election.

The party's possible win alarmed the German edition of the Financial Times as it posted an online appeal in Greek calling on voters to resist his demagoguery.

But Tsipras, a civil engineer who has been involved in leftist politics since his teens, says his program to roll back austerity will save the euro from its ballooning debt crisis.

Read more
Shots - Health Blog
5:07 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

As More Americans Live Through Cancer, Survivors' Ranks Grow

A cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence for many people who get one.

The ranks of American cancer survivors are growing, and will increase from 13.7 million in January 2012 to nearly 18 million in January 2022, according to a report from the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.

Read more
The Two-Way
5:06 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

The Euro Crisis Has A Beat (And You Can Cry To It)

Credit The Guardian/YouTube

Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 8:52 pm

Sports
5:04 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Why Are Baseball's No-Hitters No Longer Rare?

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:25 pm

And the no-hitters keep on coming. Matt Cain pitched a perfect game for the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night. It was the fifth no-hitter in Major League Baseball this season and it's only June. Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about where Cain's performance ranks in the record books and why no-hitters, which used to be rare, are now seemingly routine.

National Security
4:55 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

50 Years After A Cold War Drama, A Silver Star

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:58 pm

When an experimental U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, the U.S. government quickly came up with elaborate cover stories.

"The plane [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev reported shot down inside Russian territory presumably is an American, single-engine jet, a U-2 reported missing on a flight along the Turkish-Russian border last Sunday," a broadcast at the time said. "The national space agency has been flying these planes, 10 of them, in many parts of the world, studying the upper atmosphere."

Read more
The Two-Way
4:55 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Napolitano: New Immigration Policy Is Part Of A 'Strong Enforcement'

Credit Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:25 pm

In an interview with All Things Considered's Audie Cornish, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the administration's decision to defer the deportation of some young illegal immigrants is a part of a "strong enforcement" of immigration laws.

She said that this administration has stymied illegal border crossings and stepped up deportations of criminals.

"Strong enforcement also embodies looking at different categories differently when the facts justify that we do so," Napolitano said.

Read more
NPR Story
4:40 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Hedge Fund Tycoon Convicted In Insider Trading Case

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:25 pm

Transcript

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta was found guilty today of conspiracy and securities fraud. Prosecutors had accused Gupta of passing on inside information about the firm to hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: The verdict came on only the second day of deliberations. Gupta was acquitted of two charges but convicted of four others. The 63-year-old Indian-born Gupta is the most prominent business leader convicted so far in the government's ongoing insider trading investigation.

Read more
NPR Story
4:40 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

Week In Politics: Obama's New Deportation Policy

Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 6:25 pm

Transcript

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

For more on today's announcement and the rest of the week in politics, we turn now to E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post. Hi there, E.J.

E.J. DIONNE: How are you? Good to be with you.

BLOCK: And syndicated columnist Linda Chavez. Hi there, Ms. Chavez.

LINDA CHAVEZ: Good to be with you.

Read more
It's All Politics
4:04 pm
Fri June 15, 2012

With DREAM Order, Obama Did What Presidents Do: Act Without Congress

Credit Susan Walsh / AP
President Obama on Friday announced he was using his executive power to give some young illegal immigrants the right to stay longer in the United States.

Originally published on Mon June 18, 2012 1:12 pm

President Obama's announcement Friday that he is using his executive authority to defer deportation proceedings for young immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally but meet certain requirements was just the latest example of the president's use of his power to act without Congress on policy issues.

Read more

Pages