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  • A Global Hawk unmanned aircraft comes in for a landing at the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., on Sept. 7, 2012, after studying Hurricane Leslie. The remotely controlled planes can stay in the air for as long as 28 hours and fly over hurricanes at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet.
    Spy Drones Turning Up New Data About Hurricanes And Weather
    For the past couple of years, NASA has been using remotely piloted aircraft to study hurricanes. And they are turning up new information about things like how dust from Africa can determine whether weather systems become hurricanes in the Atlantic.
  • The Endangered Arkansas Shiner: The Canadian River is Not a Safe Place to Call Home
    The Arkansas Shiner is a small, silvery minnow that spawns in the Canadian River. It also has a prime spot on the federal government’s list of threatened…
  • New York musician Dan Kaufman (third from right) traveled to Rome to learn more about the city's Jewish community and the Italian resistance during WWII. The result is a new album by his band Barbez, based in part on the lost melodies of Roman Jewish music.
    Barbez Mines Resistance And Tradition Of Italian Jews
    Inspired by an ethnomusicologist, musician Dan Kaufman revives forgotten melodies on Bella Ciao.
  • President Obama's speeches about Syria have at times seemed to reveal his own internal struggle on the topic.
    In Syria Debate, Obama's Internal Dialogue Becomes Audible
    President Obama's approach to Syria has taken a number of surprising twists and turns in the weeks since a poison gas attack in August. A surprise agreement between Russia and the U.S. on a timetable for destroying Syria's weapons is the latest in what appears at times to be an unscripted drama.
  • Pereira and Luckman, Los Angeles International Airport Original Plan, 1952<strong> — </strong>The original design for LAX had a single, centralized terminal under a glass dome, a plan which was nixed by both the airlines and city engineers.
    In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been
    A exhibit at L.A's Architecture and Design Museum focuses on eye-popping buildings and structures that were imagined for the City of Angels — but never actually built.
  • Diplomats Sing For Peace
    A group of five United Nations diplomats has gone beyond talking and taken up singing in their effort to achieve world peace. Host Scott Simon talks to several of the ambassadors, whose album, Ambassadors Sing for Peace, came out on Tuesday.
  • Colorado Voters Recall Two Gun Control Backers
    This week, voters in Colorado recalled two members of the state Legislature who had supported stricter gun control laws. Host Scott Simon talks to Colorado Senate President John Morse, one of those who lost his seat.
  • Rescue Operations Underway In Flooded Colorado
    Heavy rain and flooding have destroyed scores of communities, with at least four people dead. While the rain had let up a little, more is expected Saturday.
  • Joe Lhota, the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, is former head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
    How 'J-Lho' May Keep Democrats Out Of New York Mayor's Office
    Republican Joe Lhota wants to be the next mayor of New York. He faces long odds — Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-to-1 in the city. But New Yorkers haven't elected a Democrat mayor in more than two decades. And with the general election just seven weeks away, Democrats facing a potential runoff don't yet have a nominee.
  • Cold War Flashback? Vienna Villa Alleged To Be NSA Post
    Austrian news reports say a stately villa in Vienna serves as a sophisticated listening post that spies on the city's residents. But the U.S. and Austrian governments say the facility is merely for gathering open source information.
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