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Local poet Richard Hague reads “The Beast of Beer” from his book, Beasts, River, Drunk Men, Garden, Burst and Light: Sequences and Long Poems .

Some 400,000 people lined the streets and stood outside Westminster Abbey in London today for the funeral of the Queen Mother.

Guerrillas operating in southern Lebanon fired Katyusha rockets into northern Israel again last night.

Historic footage of two of Akron’s most iconic airships is now being made available to the public. Archival Services at the University of Akron received...

After weeks of heavy rainfall and flooding, 15 percent of Ohio farmland has gone unplanted. In states like Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska this usually...

Advocates say three million Americans in 40 states could lose their SNAP or food stamp benefits because of a federal rule change in how eligibility is...

Ukraine's Supreme Court meets to discuss the country's disputed election and will consider ordering a new vote. The weeklong crisis has intensified long-standing divisions between eastern and western Ukraine. Now there is talk of secession. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw make a surprise visit to Iraq and urge political leaders there to form a government as soon as possible. Steve Inskeep talks to Jamie Tarabay.

Iran's best-known political prisoner Akbar Ganji lies near death, 51 days into a hunger strike. Jahanshah Javid, publisher of the web journal Iranian.com, discusses Ganji's stance on the separation of mosque and state in Iran.

Paula Newberg, author of Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan, talks about who Benazir Bhutto is, why she's so popular, and why she's a target for assassination.