The Diane Rehm Show
U.S. president Barack Obama greets monks as he tours the Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist Temple in Luang Prabang on September 7.
North Korea conducts another nuclear test. President Obama travels to China and Laos. And U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warns Russia to stay out of U.S. elections. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, September 4 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
The Friday News Roundup: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off on national security in their first joint appearance of the election season. The Senate fails once again to pass Zika funding. And a wave of shootings in Chicago pushes the city’s homicide count to more than five hundred this year. A panel of journalists joins guest host John Donvan for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Jonathan Safran Foer attends the 2011 WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year Awards in New York City.
The award-winning author of "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is out with a new novel. Jonathan Safran Foer writes about a fictional Washington, D.C. family forced to confront its identity and the meaning of home after a catastrophic earthquake.
Former FOX News anchor Greta Van Susteren speaks with then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2010. Van Susteren announced Tuesday, September 7 that she is leaving the network.
A $20 million dollar pay-out to settle sex harassment allegations at Fox News and the abrupt departure of long-time host Greta Van Susteren: What ongoing turmoil at the network may mean for journalism, television news and the conservative agenda.
A man carries one of the newly arrived boxes containing seeds from Japan and USA into the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway, on March 1.
Scientists estimate that food production will need to increase by 50 percent by mid-century to keep pace with population growth and development. How a global seed vault can safeguard against food extinction.
Representatives from Germany's Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) political party speak at a press conference under a banner that reads: 'This is what winners look like' on September 5 in Berlin, Germany. The AfD, a newcomer populist party, has managed to gain a strong following nationwide with an immigration-critical platform.
For the first time in post-war history, Chancellor Angela Merkel's party finished behind a populist challenger in German state elections. And in Denmark, growing backlash over a wave of asylum seekers. The rise of nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe.
