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NPR's John Burnett sends a postcard from Ft. Benning, Ga., where he spent a week with a bunch of reporters undergoing training for war.

Host Lisa Simeone speaks with John Gilliland, deputy president of the Ulster Farmer's Union, about the crisis facing Irish farmers as an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease threatens both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.

As part of our ongoing series of stump speeches, we feature an excerpt of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's speech about terrorism, delivered Wednesday in Waterloo, Iowa.

John Prendergast is Special Adviser to the President of the International Crisis Group. He has 20 years of experience attempting to resolve conflicts in Africa, and shaping U.S. foreign policy toward the region.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on what both parties are looking for, and hoping for, regarding Tuesday's debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and his Democratic counterpart, North Carolina's Sen. John Edwards.

Pope John Paul II is resting following a tracheotomy and is eating normally, according to a Vatican spokesman. The pope was rushed to the hospital Thursday morning with flu symptoms and breathing difficulties.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the situation in Saddam City, the sprawling Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. It began as a huge housing development in the 1960s but has become a slum. Marines in Saddam City have encountered ecstatic crowds and utter destitution.

NPR's John Burnett in Baghdad reports on the first tentative steps by Marines to restore order in the eastern part of the city. U.S. commanders are making contact with neighborhood Muslim clergymen, seeking their help to stop the wave of looting and arson in the capital.

Writer Nick Hornby's novel, About a Boy, has been made into a film starring Hugh Grant and Toni Collette. It opens Friday, May 17. Hornby also wrote the novel High Fidelity, which became a hit film of the same name starring John Cusack. This interview first aired Sept. 26, 1995.

A jazz legend's influence on the genre is detailed in Donald Maggin's book Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie. Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz included the flavor of Afro-Cuban rhythms and be-bop.

President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry continue to stump throughout battleground states. On Wednesday both candidates descended on the Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Don Gonyea.

At 29, Audra McDonald is a Broadway star. She's won three Tony Awards, and her new CD mixes songs from well-known composers such as Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin with a new crop, including Adam Guettel and Michael John LaChuisa. The CD is called How Glory Goes.

Reporter John Otis catches up with one Colombian mayor who faces so many threats from criminal groups — that he's been forced to govern — largely from exile.

The duo perform songs from their debut album, which draws on the music of the '30s and '40s. "There is a timeless quality to these old standards," Vilray says. Originally broadcast Feb. 18, 2020.

The two organizations are still in talks.

The $48 billion deal would create the nation's largest health insurer by enrollment.

John Bush's controversial online views on abortion and race were criticized at a hearing last week but did not stand in the way of his Senate confirmation on a party-line vote.

Super Tuesday pushed Republican presidential candidate John McCain well ahead of his opponents in the delegate chase, but it did little to resolve the underlying differences with the GOP. McCain held a news conference Wednesday to look ahead.

A five-way kidney swap was a chain of selfless kindness that allowed several people to help their loved ones and others.

Experts say white supremacist hate groups are targeting young video game fans for recruitment via YouTube, Twitch, game-related forums and directly within multiplayer game chat.