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  • Harvard Diversity Stats Put Warren In Hot Seat Again
    In Massachusetts, Democratic Senate candidate and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren continues to be dogged by the question of her American Indian heritage. Friday, in the wake of a report from The Boston Globe, Republican Sen. Scott Brown accused Warren of misleading Harvard about her Native American ethnicity. From member station WBUR in Boston, Fred Thys reports.
  • At 'Eurovision 2012,' Politics Take The Stage
    An estimated 125 million people are expected to tune in to Saturday night's final contest in Eurovision 2012. This year's song contest has provoked controversy over its host country, Azerbaijan, whose president is accused of human rights abuses. Vicki Barker has the story.
  • Author's Tweets Give New Meaning To Short Fiction
    Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan tweeted a science fiction story from the New Yorker fiction Twitter account (@NYerFiction) this week. In the story, Egan takes a character from her novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, and sets her in a futuristic world in which she is a female spy. Host Scott Simon talks with Egan about the first time The New Yorker has serialized fiction on Twitter.
  • No Bonds For OKPOP
    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state House of Representatives will not consider a $20 million bond issue to help build the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture in…
  • The Denver folk ensemble The Lumineers has released its self-titled debut album. From left: Wes Schultz, Neyla Pekarek and Jeremiah Fraites.
    The Lumineers: Chasing Big Dreams Out West
    After years struggling to make it in New York, the folk group left everything behind and settled in Denver. The band released its self-titled debut album this spring.
  • Storms Cause Damage in NW Oklahoma
    WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — Thunderstorms unleashed bursts of heat and strong winds on parts of northwestern Oklahoma, damaging homes and businesses, electric…
  • Brother Christian Leisy (left) and Abbot Philip Lawrence at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, N.M.
    Deep In The Desert, Monks Make Transcendent Music
    "To chant, to sing, engages one's whole being," says Brother Christian Leisy of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. The Benedictine monks who live outside Santa Fe have released an album of Gregorian chant.
  • Tyrese Graham teaches science at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago.
    Hard Lessons Follow Rocky Start For Chicago Teacher
    Tyrese Graham is a second-year science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School on the West Side of Chicago. When he started teaching, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city.
  • Job seekers fill out applications at a job fair in the Queens borough of New York City earlier this month. Economists say jobs in the middle — in sales, administration and assembly, for example — are being squeezed.
    Help Wanted. But Not For Mid-Level Jobs
    Changes in the job market have meant fewer jobs for those with mid-level skills. Economists call the trend labor "polarization" and say it's forcing those in the middle to take jobs at lower pay.
  • Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia in March. When he finally took to the stand after two months of testimony, the prosecutor called him a liar over and over.
    Just Doing His Job Is Catholic Official's Defense
    The Philadelphia clergy sex-abuse trial has been brutal for Monsignor William Lynn, the first high-level Catholic official to be criminally prosecuted. Lynn's charges are not for abusing minors, but for failing to protect children from predator priests.
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