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  • Jobs ahead.
    Why Don't More Unemployed Spaniards Get Jobs In Germany?
    The eurozone was supposed to create one big labor market by making it easy to cross borders for work.
  • New Las Vegas Denny's To Have Wedding Chapel
    Denny's Corp. is opening a flagship restaurant in downtown Las Vegas. It will take up 6,400 square feet and include a full bar and wedding chapel. And of course, it will be open 24-7.
  • Semi-Automatic Rifle Arrives In TV Box
    Seth Horvitz of Washington D. C. says all he wanted was a television. Instead he received a military-grade semi-automatic rifle. Horvitz complained to Amazon.com, UPS and the seller. Nobody took responsibility. But police were happy to take the gun, which is illegal in the nation's capital.
  • As boys washed their feet in the background, a U.S. Marine stood nearby earlier this summer in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
    Three U.S. Troops Killed In Latest 'Green On Blue' Attack
    At least one gunman dressed in an Afghan uniform opened fire on the Americans, who were reportedly invited to eat dinner with a local commander.
  • Graduate student Clement Cid sits atop the solar-powered toilet he helped to build at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Underneath the platform, the toilet converts waste into fertilizer. The Caltech team will use fake feces to demonstrate the toilet's features next week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offices.
    Why Is The World's Largest Foundation Buying Fake Poop?
    The Gates Foundation has granted engineers more than $3 million to develop cheap, high-tech toilets that don't need water or electricity. To test these supercommodes, the foundation has purchased 50 pounds of soybean paste that resembles human waste.
  • Voter ID Laws: Necessity Or Burden?
    A wave of states are implementing or considering laws that would require a government photo ID to vote. Some say the laws could disenfranchise voters, others say ID is required for basic needs. Host Michel Martin talks with journalist Kristal Brent Zook and Abigail Thernstrom of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
  • David Rakoff: 'There Is No Answer As To Why Me'
    Writer and humorist David Rakoff, who died Thursday at the age of 47, wrote with a perfect balance of wit and gravity about the cancer that would ultimately take his life. Fresh Air remembers Rakoff with excerpts from two interviews in 2001 and 2010.
  • This photo photo from the New Zealand Defense Force shows a handful of the rocks found floating in the South Pacific.
    7,500 Square Miles Of Pumice Floating In Pacific Is 'Weirdest Thing I've Seen'
    The rocks, floating in the waters near New Zealand, must have been created by an underwater volcano. The floating mass is about 200 square miles larger than New Jersey.
  • Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
    Top New York ICE Officer Sues Napolitano For Discrimination Against Men
    The lawsuit alleges that the Homeland Security secretary has turned the agency into a "frat house."
  • Egypt's Christians Form Their Own Brotherhood
    A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood occupies Egypt's presidential palace, leaving many of the country's Coptic Christians deeply anxious about their future. A new group calling itself the Christian Brotherhood has emerged, vowing to stand up for the rights of Copts.
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