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Presidential Fundraising Numbers Poised To Skyrocket

Numbers in for March show GOP candidate Mitt Romney raised $12.6 million and President Obama's re-election effort raised $53 million. But the race is changing, now that Romney is finishing up the GOP primary season. He's also just starting to solicit his primary donors to give again.

Cover art detail from <em>Jazz Samba</em>, released 50 years ago today.

Around The Jazz Internet: April 20, 2012

Five musicians named Doris Duke Artists, jazz as survival and Jazz Samba's 50th anniversary.

Mourners gather at the spot in front of the Greek parliament in Athens where 77-year-old retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas shot and killed himself on April 4. Christoulas left a note saying he did not want to end up scrounging for food in garbage bins.

Amid Europe's Debt Crisis, A Sharp Rise In Suicides

The death of a 77-year-old Greek man who shot himself in front of parliament recently underscores the spike of suicides in debt-burdened Greece, Ireland and Italy. In Italy alone, there have been 23 crisis-related suicides since January.

Three More Secret Service Employees Resign Over Prostitution Scandal

That brings the total to six people forced out after the incident last weekend in Colombia.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde announced Friday that the IMF had raised $430 billion, surpassing its stated goal.

Strings Attached To IMF's New Financial Firepower

Member countries have pledged $430 billion to add to the International Monetary Fund's crisis-fighting arsenal. The aim is to amass enough resources to handle any further problems coming from the prolonged debt crisis in Europe, but the funds come with a few caveats.

Sports: Who's Starting Baseball Season Well

Host Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about how teams are doing in the first few weeks of Major League Baseball, Fenway Park's 100-year anniversary, and women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, who stepped aside this week.

A Clarification: No First-Class Flying Here

A joke made a few weeks ago between NPR's Tom Goldman and host Scott Simon about flying first class was misunderstood by some listeners. Simon explains NPR's policy on company-sponsored flights.

Six U.S. Secret Service agents have lost their jobs so far after a prostitution scandal that took place at the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, just before President Obama's arrival at the Summit of the Americas conference earlier this month.

Prostitution's Real Casualties Aren't Secret Service

I've been curious about a question I haven't heard in the stories about U.S. Secret Service agents misbehaving before President Obama's arrival at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. Why were world leaders meeting in a place with legalized prostitution anyway?

Chuck Colson, speaking outside the White House in 2003, has died. The former aide to President Nixon went to prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. He later became an influential evangelical Christian.

Watergate Figure, Evangelist Chuck Colson Dies At 80

Chuck Colson went from being one of the nation's most despised men, who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, to a hero of conservative Christians. Following a brief illness, he died Saturday at a Northern Virginia hospital with his wife and family at his bedside.

Container ships are positioned under cranes at the Port of Oakland in California. U.S. exports are up more than 30 percent from just two years ago, when President Obama set a goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years.

Made In The USA: An Export Boom

Two years ago, President Obama laid out a goal to double American exports in five years. Today, American products and services are in demand around the world, but that's not the only reason the U.S. is on pace to meet Obama's goal.

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