Search results for

Burns said his top priority as spy chief would be a rising China. He received strong bipartisan support in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and was widely expected to be confirmed.

The Biden administration made democracy a top foreign policy issue. Myanmar's coup represents an early test. The U.S. responded with tough talk and targeted sanctions, but will it be enough?

Four months after its top-selling 737 Max airliner was grounded worldwide, Boeing announced a 35% drop in revenues and a loss of $2.9 billion in the second quarter.

China banned Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as well as administration officials from entering China in response to U.S. actions in response to the country's treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority.

The top news in Ukraine isn't President Trump's call to their president. Ukrainians are focused on their president's decision to jump-start the peace process with Russia — without U.S. backing.

For many weeks, the president said he would step away from managing his businesses, but he offered no evidence. Now documents are turning up, showing he no longer is listed as top executive.

After failing to win a single gold medal across all track events leading into Saturday, the U.S. men's team dominated in the 4x400 meter relay's final heat to the top spot on the podium.

Gasoline prices jumped nearly 10 cents a gallon in the last week, and forecasters say that drivers could see even higher prices as summer approaches. Prices typically rise in anticipation of the summer driving season, but in 2004, it was mid-May before prices topped the $2 mark. This year, $2-a-gallon gas is but a distant reflection in the rearview mirror; it's $3 a gallon we seem to be closing in on.

Host Michele Norris reads from our listener's letters sent to us over the past week. The letters comment on our profile of the Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriya, Michele's conversation with Dr. Michael Saag, one of the top researchers for AIDS, our profile of black preachers leaving the Democratic party, and reactions to our review of Donald Knaack's opera, Odin.

A Canadian company recently was named whiskey of the year — knocking Scotch brands from the top-five category. In the U.S., there's been a massive increase in single malts in particular.