Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Search results for

  • Polls open in Zimbabwe on Friday for the disputed one-man presidential runoff. Opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the race citing concerns for his supporters' lives. That leaves President Robert Mugabe as the only candidate on the ballot. International leaders have condemned the election.
  • The National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Fifteen late Monday afternoon, located 190 miles to the south-southwest of...
  • The system, east of the Bahamas, has a low chance of development as it drifts west toward the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Will former L.A. County District Attorney Gil Garcetti soon be better known as a photographer than as a prosecutor? Garcetti talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his book of images of the ironworkers who built Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
  • Like many retirees, Cheeta the chimp spends quiet days in a Sun Belt state, keeping busy with painting and reflecting on a successful career. Dan Westfall, who takes care of Cheeta and other aging animal actors, talks with Debbie Elliott on Cheeta's 74th birthday.
  • The last time Scott Simon spoke to percussionist Bobby Sanabria, it was about Sanabria's newest CD, which has since been nominated for a Grammy Award. Now, Sanabria wants listeners to meet a classic Afro-Cuban album: Machito's Kenya.
  • Veteran radio host Betto Arcos has just returned from a trip to Colombia, and he comes to Alt.Latino bearing gifts — including a deep dive into the country's best folk and contemporary music.
  • The Kenyan-born singer discusses moving to the U.S. and adapting the music of his homeland into something more cosmopolitan.
  • The funding request for Ukraine could set up a showdown with Congress, where far-right Republicans as well as the left of the Democratic Party are skeptical of additional funding for the conflict.
  • The public has voted and the spotless superstar born at a family-owned zoo in Tennessee has been named Kipekee.
663 of 2,747