Search results for

The acclaimed sci-fi drama grappled with issues that plague real-world leaders. As the show neared its end, cast and producers asked how fiction can offer wisdom on profoundly tough choices.

The standoff in Crimea is increasing in intensity and has become a focal point of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Host Arun Rath talks to NPR's Michele Kelemen about the diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff in the region.

Until this week, only one person was believed to have spent quality time with both leaders: Dennis Rodman.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and representatives of other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, agree on a plan to offer Iran incentives for stopping its nuclear enrichment plans. For the time being, thoughts of punitive action against Iran are shelved.

Carol Leonnig spoke to a number of Secret Service agents for her new book, Zero Fail. "They strongly believed that it was a matter of time before a president was shot on their watch," she says.

Childrens Hospital returns to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for its sixth season Friday. NPR's Eric Deggans spent a day on set and reports on how this niche comedy is swimming against the tide.

The U.N. Security Council meets on Gaza, as the U.S. backs a new aid group and dismisses concerns by the U.N. that aid is being "politicized."

The United States and France announce support for a U.N. report that implicates Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says the two nations are working on a resolution that will demand Syria's cooperation as the inquiry proceeds.

Gang rapes, abductions and killings have grown commonplace in South Sudan, according to the Commission on Human Rights, whose new report outlines widespread violence in the country's ongoing conflict.

Noah Adams talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about the resignation today of U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck. Dombeck had been instrumental in many of the Clinton administration reforms of forest policy, some of which are already being challenged by the Bush administration.