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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that while the election of Russia's new president, Dimitri Medvedev, has been described as more of a coronation, and Medvedev himself described as a puppet of outgoing president Vladimir Putin, there may be something more profound at work.

Margaret Seltzer admitted to The New York Times that Love and Consequences, which describes a childhood on the streets of South Central Los Angeles, was made up. Michel Martin had interviewed Seltzer about the book before her confession.

Tensions in East Asia are on the rise, with the first North Korean ICBM launch in some three months and the U.S. expected to send its first nuclear-armed sub to the region in decades.

Hillary Clinton's presidential primary victories in Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas came with support from older women, blue collar workers and white men — a group Clinton has been unable to garner much support from in recent weeks. On primary night in Ohio, some of the folks who threw their support behind Clinton explain why.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault aims to preserve samples of seeds from around the world to protect the planet's crop diversity. Nicknamed "the doomsday seed vault" by some, the frozen vault is now accepting seeds for storage.

For more than 20 years, Ethan and Joel Coen have written, directed, and produced films together — many of them bloody, absurd and revolving around some kind of criminal enterprise gone awry. Their latest, No Country for Old Men, is up for eight Academy Awards — and they're the first siblings to share a nomination for best director.

In the Austin community of Travis Heights, a bird is dive-bombing mail carriers, and anyone else walking outside. A biologist says the hawk is likely defending its hatchlings.

Severe weather in the south central U.S. this week spawned a string of tornadoes that killed at least 50 people. Generally, spring and early summer are thought of as prime tornado season — but if the conditions are right, tornadoes don't pay attention to the calendar.

On the eve of this year's Grammy Awards, the 50th anniversary of the show, Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich talks about highlights of his years of bringing together artists from across the music spectrum.

The latest member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for president regularly shares a dizzying range of falsehoods and conspiracy theories on podcasts and at other campaign appearances.

Striking screenwriters are considering a proposed contract that would end their 12-week-long strike and could be back at work by Wednesday. Half-hour comedies are expected to have fresh episodes faster than hourlong dramas. But some serialized shows might not come back until fall.

NATO's expansion is the exact opposite of what Russia wanted, says Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. He spoke to NPR about its NATO's newest members, and when Ukraine might join them.

Questions of ethics and morality are no longer just for philosophers. Scholars of anthropology, biology, economics and sociology are weighing in on how humans decide what's right and wrong. Philosopher and author Kwame Anthony Appiah says this is nothing new.

GOP House lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Twitter rival Threads wants to downgrade news and politics. The Hollywood actors union holds a strike vote this morning.

Christopher Joyce recently traveled with archeologists to a remote mountain lake in Peru to extract sediments from a lake bottom. They discovered that dry land archeologists do better working in the dirt than they do in a rocky rowboat.

Tuesday night, for the first time ever, a beagle won "Best in Show" at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Uno, a 15-inch beagle, brought the crowd to its feet at the sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.

If you're confused about how the former Yugoslavia dissolved after the fall of communism, you're not alone. The country was melded together after World War I from six major Slavic groups and its post-communism breakup has largely followed ethnic lines. Michele Norris has a primer on the new states created in the Balkans since 1989.

Ray Epps is suing Fox for portraying him as an instigator of violence on Jan 6. 2021. He says he believed Fox that former President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory in the 2020 race.

Democrat Hillary Clinton has lost eight contests in a row to rival Barack Obama. Some Democratic political insiders are saying they are content with their new "front-runner." Meanwhile, the Clinton camp is refining its strategy.

Now that space shuttle Atlantis has safely returned to Earth, the Pentagon plans to shoot down a failing spy satellite as early as Wednesday night. The Navy will launch a missile in an attempt to destroy the satellite before it crashes to Earth.

The Bush administration says it expects to work with the government formed in Pakistan after Monday's elections. Critics of U.S. policy on Pakistan say the election could provide an opportunity to stop relying on President Pervez Musharraf.

The gunman in Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University had stopped taking his medication and became erratic before opening fire inside a lecture hall, police say. Five people were killed before Stephen Kazmierczack killed himself.

Wisconsin is the next battleground in the Democratic nomination contest. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both campaigned in the state Saturday.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he will not seek re-election and has resigned as Cuba's president, after 49 years in power. Castro announced in Cuba's state-run newspaper that he is stepping down. At 81, he has been ailing and has not appeared in public in the past year and a half.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for what is being called the worst bombing in Afghanistan's history, in which at least 80 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bomber's blast at a dog-fighting event. Funerals have already begun in Kandahar, where the governor expressed outrage at the attack.