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  • Scott Vener is the music supervisor for <em>How to Make It in America</em>. The season finale airs Sunday night on HBO.
    The Music Man Behind 'Entourage' Shares His Secret
    HBO's How to Make It in America airs its season finale Sunday, and if you listen close, you'll see what sets music supervisor Scott Vener apart. He got his start on the hit series Entourage, but says the credit for finding new hit music shouldn't go to him.
  • Robert Khuzami (right), director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division, announces that the SEC is charging six former top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with securities fraud on Friday.
    SEC: Mortgage Execs Took Pains To Hide Risky Loans
    In fraud charges filed Friday, the agency accused six former top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of lying about the number of subprime loans on their books. The SEC said the executives knew what was happening and even encouraged the deception.
  • Nathaniel Donaker, 4, eats Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. Frosted Flakes is 27 percent sugar, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group.
    Bonbons For Breakfast? Most Kid Cereals Pack Enough Sugar To Be Dessert
    A new report by the Environmental Working Group finds that the vast majority of popular cereals marketed to kids exceed guidelines that call for no more than 26 percent added sugar by weight.
  • NPR CEO and President Gary Knell.
    New NPR CEO Gary Knell Starts Work, Takes Listeners' Calls
    He fills the positions that opened earlier this year when controversies led to Vivian Schiller's departure. Today on Talk of the Nation, and later on Twitter, Knell takes questions.
  • French stilt dancers from Landes, in southwestern France, walk through London on their way to the 1937 Silver Jubilee Festival of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
    A Bird's-Eye History Of Walking On Stilts
    In 1411, the count of Namur banned the use of stilts in the Belgian city. Over the past 600 years, the elevated footwear has been used for everything from putting up drywall to fishing and even jousting.
  • Students hoping for a repeal of California's ban on affirmative action in college admissions protest outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Feb. 13. The Supreme Court will decide an affirmative action case next fall that could affect college admissions policies across the country.
    Case Renews Focus On Race In College Admissions
    The Supreme Court will take up the issue of racial preferences in college admissions next fall, and some fear the decision will leave universities with fewer options for increasing diversity on campus. Others say affirmative action is a crutch that is long past due for replacement.
  • Sock Monkeys at the 8th annual Sock Monkey Madness Festival in Rockford, Ill.
    (Sock) Monkey Business: A Festival For Iconic Toy
    Sock monkeys, the red-mouthed, yarn-topped toys with a wide smile, were born during the Great Depression and handcrafted for the working class. Devotees of the little critters are still cherishing them at the annual festival dedicated to the Sock Monkey in Rockford, Ill.
  • Kinsey Wilson, NPR's executive vice president and chief content officer.
    NPR Promotes Two Executives To Key Posts
    Kinsey Wilson, an NPR senior vice president and general manager of NPR Digital Media, is becoming executive vice president and chief content officer. Margaret Low Smith, who has been acting senior vice president for news, is continuing in that role.
  • At the State Department, employees are expressing concern via an official dissent channel about the Trump administration's temporary visa and refugee ban.
    At State Department, 'Dissent Channel' In High Gear With Refugee Ban Protests
    State Department employees are using the channel to register objection to the executive action temporarily blocking refugees and visas for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries.
  • Acting Attorney General Out After Refusing To Defend Trump Refugee Ban
    The president replaced Sally Yates late Monday after she told Justice Department lawyers not to defend his executive order. The top federal prosecutor in suburban Virginia was elevated in her place.
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