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The president's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have strained ties with American trading partners. Rachel Martin talks to Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organization.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with commentator Cokie Roberts, who answers listener questions about the history of the U.S. census.

Most people suffer stage fright when speaking or performing in front of a group. One pianist found she could manage the anxiety if she practiced often for an audience, even at the airport.

South Carolina has a strong track record for picking the eventual GOP winner. But the state also has a history of dirty politics.

Among the nearly 24-hundred delegates headed to the Republican National Convention in September is a retiree from Lancaster who has ties to candidate John…

Although his enigmatic poems confounded literary critics and peers who heaped praise on him, his abstract, modernist style reinvented literature for a generation of writers.

The bill was postponed indefinitely 53-45 in West Virginia's House of Delegates. Educators opposed charter schools and a new voucher system in a strike that came a year after the last walkout.

President Bush and his aides ponder their course of political action as the administration seeks to recover from Friday's indictment of a senior White House official and the withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers.

Rescue teams are trying to find two miners still missing at the Aracoma Mine in Melville, W. Va., about 60 miles southwest of Charleston. Nineteen others escaped Thursday evening when a conveyor belt deep in the mine caught fire. Anna Sale of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports.

Groups are working to process petitions signed over the weekend in a final push to collect 414,000 valid signatures by July 5, the deadline to put an abortion amendment on the November ballot.