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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes last week's winner and challenges ur listeners with a new puzzle. 6:46 This week's on-air player lives in Rodney, Michigan and listens to WCMU, Mount lea

British authorities are reporting an explosion aboard a bus in central London shortly before 6 p.m. eastern time. Danny talks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb.

Venus Williams has lost in the first round of Wimbledon, a striking defeat for the five-time winner of the grass-court tournament. She lost to Elena Vesnina of Russia in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, after failing to establish her serve.

The judge said she wanted to make clear with the sentence that "trying to stop the peaceful transition of power and assaulting law enforcement officers is going to be met with certain punishment."

By Ben Adlerhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kazu/local-kazu-527996.mp3Sacramento, CA – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and top…

Forty-seven million Americans now rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. For many people, the decision to sign up is fraught with conflicting feelings about taking government assistance.

Rivalries are taking center stage at the Olympics, but they're also playing out in the race for the presidency here in the United States. And on the heels of a trip abroad by Republican Mitt Romney, a new poll gives the advantage to President Obama. Host Michel Martin talks political news with Gabriel Sanchez, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico, and Mario Loyola, a contributor to the National Review.

He has flirted with running for office since the 1980s. His message has been remarkably similar.

The Republican presidential contest moves from small ball to big time in Florida for a Jan. 31 primary in which some 4 million state Republicans are eligible to vote. Nearly half live along the Interstate 4 corridor, the "highway to political heaven" running coast to coast from Tampa to Daytona Beach.

Twisters touched down across the Southeast. Heavy snow and rains toppled trees and power lines. At least six deaths are being attributed to the massive system's effects. Now, it's hitting the Northeast. Hundreds of flights have been canceled. Drivers are being warned to stay off many roads.