Search results for

Kasem hosted one of the country's most popular countdown shows for four decades. This piece originally aired onWeekend Edition on June 15, 2014.

A legal fight in New Jersey has broken out over the Trump administration's choice for top federal prosecutor in the state, paralyzing criminal proceedings statewide.

Schiff reflects on the significance of the top-secret documents seized from Trump's residence. He led the first impeachment and serves on the House's committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Four young guys in dark mop-top haircuts, slightly mod suits peer with disarming insoucience from the cover of an album produced by Capitol Records. Meet The Redwalls, who are touring the country with a CD, de nova, that evokes the sound of the early Beatles.

WLRN News has been honored with four Salute to Excellence awards by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). The Salute to Excellence Awards…

Suspected smugglers wanted to take their SUV across the U.S.-Mexico border, so they built ramps that would take it over the Arizona border fence. But unlike the way it would've happened in old episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard, the Jeep got stuck on top of the fence.

For more than 260 weeks, ABC World News Tonight trailed NBC Nightly News. At last, they finally won a week. A software glitch, however, caused ABC to come out on top. NBC was restored to the top spot.

The Wimbledon Tennis Championship drew to a close on Sunday as 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz topped reigning champion and star of the sport Novak Djokovic in a back-and-forth epic.

The House voted to claw back more than $8 billion that Congress had allocated for foreign aid, on top of cuts to aid the Trump administration has already made.

At its height, American tennis consistently fielded the world's top male players. Now that American dominance is gone, so too are many of the top U.S. men's tournaments. They're moving overseas, snapped up by groups offering more lucrative payouts in a sport enjoying huge global appeal.

Ratings like U.S. News and World Report's list of top hospitals generate a lot of buzz, but doctors say no single ranking of a hospital will tell patients everything they need to know.

Trump announced the dismissal of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and said he would nominate Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star general, to succeed him as the top U.S. military officer.

"Thriller" shoots up the chart, making this the sixth consecutive decade in which Jackson has scored at least one top 10 hit.

This month's primaries and runoffs will serve as a test of the power of former President Donald Trump's endorsements up and down the ballot.

The president's approval rating is up to 44%, but 7-in-10 people say the country is going in the wrong direction, and young and Black voters are among the least likely to vote this fall.

of frenetic campaigning by the top four candidates before Saturday's all-important primary.

Laura Womack of member station W-A-M-U in Washington reports the Pentagon is in the midst of a two billion dollar renovation project to update outmoded electrical, water, and sewage systems. The main problem for the workers is working in areas with a lot of top secret material and not compromising national security.

From member station KJZZ, Mark Moran reports that the Major League baseball season resumes tomorrow following the All-Star break and batters are on pace to hit more home runs than in any season ever. But in a handful of cities, a few pitchers have found a way to keep the ball in the park and their teams at the top.

Melinda talks to Fina Torres, director of the new film, Woman on Top, about the movie's soundtrack, which she also produced. It features several classic Bossa Nova songs from the l950's, and 60's, as well as more recent compositions.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the historical decision in Florida smokers' class action lawsuit against the nation's top five cigarette making companies. The jury hit the companies with a $145 billion punitive damages verdict, -the largest civil jury award in history.