October 15, 2012

NPR’s “Morning Edition” has one of the most peculiar formats of any morning show on radio or television: its hosts Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne are split between the East Coast and the West.

In the third meeting between the teams in less than a year, the Giants had six sacks and stifled the 49ers’ once-vaunted offense in a 26-3 victory.

Interviews in China with four North Koreans suggest daily life has not improved under Kim Jong-un for those who fall outside the nation’s elite.

Mayor Holly Brinda, a fourth-generation resident of Elyria, Ohio, remains hopeful despite cutbacks that have cost city jobs and reduced city services.

Once the hottest new thing on Wall Street, lightning-quick computerized trading is expected to make less money this year, with profits down 35 percent from last year.

Hiroki Kuroda carried a perfect game into the sixth, but the Yankees managed only four hits in a loss to Detroit the day after losing Derek Jeter for the postseason.

In a blow to the White House’s strategy of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict, Washington-backed secular rebel groups are lagging behind hard-line Islamists in weapons acquisition.

On Sunday, the Yankees played their first postseason game without either Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera on the active roster since the final game of the 1981 World Series.

Concerned that the Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson could hurt the Romney campaign, Republicans across the country have been working to keep him off the ballot.

The story of Christian Hesch, who said he injected EPO 54 times, illuminates an end of the doping spectrum away from the money and glamour of Tour de France champions.

In a complaint filed Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union accuses Morgan Stanley of fueling the production of risky, expensive loans that targeted African-American borrowers.

After past disappointments, Microsoft has paired its latest digital music offering with the Xbox and Windows as part of a broad set of bets to regain ground it has lost to Apple and other competitors.