20 Nov 22:29
Pat Murphy has resigned after 15 seasons as baseball coach at Arizona State. No reason was given for the move, which was announced ...

18 Nov 23:45
Have season, will play has become the mantra of a trio of major college athletes who are excelling on the football field after ...

14 Nov 14:37
The NCAA says it's heartened by findings from a new gambling study that, among other things, shows fewer college athletes betting ...

22 Nov 06:12
The US Senate narrowly votes to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul America's healthcare system.

22 Nov 05:16
The death toll from a mine blast in north-eastern China more than doubles to 87, with 21 people still missing, report state media.

22 Nov 04:43
Polls open in Romania in the first round of presidential elections aimed at putting an end to weeks of political wrangling.

21 Nov 13:00
Iranian media reported this week that five people arrested in the protests following Iran's presidential election have been sentenced to death. Tehran says the prisoners had connections to "counter-revolutionary groups," but activists say Iran is going too far in persecuting dissenters. Host Scott Simon talks to Hadi Ghaemi, director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

21 Nov 13:00
While President Obama weighs his options on Afghanistan, one thing is clear: The U.S. is beefing up its civilian presence there. The aid effort has been hobbled from the start, and many experts consider it a weak link in the struggle to build a stable society in the conflicted country. Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew insists that the U.S. is now recruiting the right kind of people, but before those people head to Afghanistan, they get trained to work with the military at a base in Indiana.

20 Nov 22:06
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.