Search results for

Attorney General William Barr is leaving office after Christmas. Barr started out as a loyalist and trusted insider, but his relationship with the president frayed.

It took nearly two years, and plenty of bad results, but Fort William FC, perhaps the worst soccer team in the United Kingdom, finally won a match.

The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, a former Yale University chaplain known for his anti-war and peace activism, dies at the age of 81. Coffin questioned authority throughout his career, using civil disobedience to fight for civil rights and against war.

In her memoir, William Styron's daughter Alexandra says of her father: "The novel owned his heart." She looks back at their life, from raucous impromptu piano performances by Leonard Bernstein to his abrupt dismissal of her success as a published novelist.

Raspberry's newspaper column was marked by a fierce independence, not beholden to politics nor ideology.

http://66.225.205.104/meckCCatlrg.mp3Parks Helms(D), Wilhelmenia Rembert(D), Jennifer Roberts (D), Kaye McGarry(R), Jim Puckett (R), Dan Ramirez (R).

Serena Williams overcame the wind and more than a dozen unforced errors Sunday to defeat Victoria Azarenka in the U.S. Open women's singles championship match. The win is Williams' fifth U.S. Open win and 17th Grand Slam singles title.

At the time of her deposition on Nov. 7, her lawyer told NPR that Williams' testimony "will largely reflect what is already in the public record."

He was one of the most promising pianists of his generation when a 1953 plane crash ended his life at the age of 31. But thanks to an enterprising Australian music lover, a new two-CD set captures Kapell at the peak of his career.

They are accused of selling fentanyl-laced heroin to Williams, the five-time Emmy nominated actor, best known for his role as a gay robber of drug dealers in the TV series The Wire.

to read a poem at President Clinton's inauguration later this month. Williams is a professor of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas. He follows poet Maya Angelou, who read her work at the inauguration four years ago.

The evening news anchor had stepped down voluntarily after he said on air that a helicopter he was on had been hit by fire over Iraq. He later admitted he had "misremembered" the episode.

Also: Edith Grossman on literary translation; a poem for James Foley.

Kayla Williams is a former U.S. Army soldier who served in the Middle East as an Arabic interpreter. She recounts her decision to enlist and her experiences during the Iraq war in a new memoir.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge, a collection of stories from the Montana writer who started out his adult life as a rancher and farmer.

The video, along with one parodying Gilligan's Islandcost tax payers $60,000 to make. The IRS has since admitted the expenditure was a mistake.

Whitmore has been called a folk singer, a roots troubadour and an heir to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen. He grew up on the fertile land between the Mississippi and Des Moines Rivers, on a horse farm in Iowa. Whitmore's new album, Field Songs, is an ode to family farmers.

The Census Bureau announced that 15 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2011 — a slight drop from the year before. But income disparities continue to grow. Host Michel Martin talks with Harvard professor William Julius Wilson, author of the 1987 book The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.

Melissa Block visits William Faulkner's home: Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Miss. She talks with curator William Griffith about Faulkner's running theme of the South in conflict with itself.

"Sherri" will "inherit" the time slots on Fox owned-and-operated stations that have been the backbone of Williams' nationally syndicated talk show since 2008