Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:33 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Bluff The Listener

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 9:07 am

Our panelists tell three stories about someone making trash into a must-have item.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:33 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Panel Round One

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 9:07 am

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: This Face for Rent.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:33 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

NFL Sideline Reporter Michele Tafoya Plays Not My Job

Credit Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 9:21 am

Michele Tafoya is the Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC's Sunday Night Football, but she's spent time on basketball courts, softball diamonds, gymnastics mats and now public radio quiz show game grids.

We've invited Tafoya to play a game called "Enter at your own risk!" As one of the first female reporters to be allowed inside the NFL locker room, she has been a pioneer in her field. But there are still places out there where they believe in cooties, so Tafoya will answer three questions about men's-only clubs.

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
11:32 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Lightning Fill In The Blank

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 9:07 am

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

The Two-Way
5:25 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Toronto Mayor: 'I Do Not Use Crack Cocaine'

Credit Nathan Denette / Associated Press
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a city council meeting on Tuesday.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he doesn't smoke crack cocaine and isn't an addict, in response to a video that surfaced recently purporting to show him using the illegal drug.

Last week Ford called the cellphone video obtained by The Toronto Star "ridiculous" and blamed the newspaper for "going after me."

Friday's comments from Ford were more emphatic.

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Code Switch
4:43 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

History Makes Hiring Household Help A Complex Choice

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Actress Marla Gibbs (as maid Florence Johnston) and actor Sherman Hemsley (as her boss, George Jefferson), appear in an episode of The Jeffersons.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 8:08 pm

It's All Politics
4:39 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Obama's Terror Fight Is Colored Gray, Not Black And White

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Protests like this one in 2010 in Pakistan in part led President Obama to recalibrate when U.S. officials will order drone strikes, as part of a nuanced policy.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 5:15 pm

It's difficult for an American president to govern through nuance, especially when it's necessary to persuade a majority of the people that certain actions are essential for national security. And effective persuasion usually requires clarity.

That's how you arrive at President George W. Bush's stark formulation "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists" after Sept. 11, and much of what sprang from it.

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The Deadly Tornado In Moore, Okla.
4:03 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Tornado Safe Rooms In Schools A Popular, But Costly Idea

Credit Scott Harvey / KSMU
Many school safe rooms, like this one inside Jeffries Elementary in Springfield, Mo., also serve as gymnasiums. Constructed with a $1.6 million grant from FEMA, which covered 75 percent of the cost, the shelter can hold more than 500 people — enough to accommodate all the school's students and employees.

In the days since a tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., talk of constructing safe rooms in public schools has become commonplace.

In southwest Missouri, officials have built a few of them already, and they are seeking funding to build more.

'A Sense Of Peace'

Karina O'Connell is preparing dinner tonight under the pavilion at Phelps Grove Park in Springfield, Mo., where she's eating with her 9-year-old twin sons, Samuel and John Patrick.

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The Two-Way
3:36 pm
Fri May 24, 2013

Hedge Fund Manager Apologizes For Comments On Female Traders

Credit Diane Bondareff / Invision for the National Audubon Society
Paul Tudor Jones (left) at an National Audubon Society function in January.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 3:51 pm

Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is back-peddling from remarks he made at a symposium last month that motherhood causes women to lose the necessary focus to be successful traders.

"As soon as that baby's lips touched that girl's bosom, forget it," Jones told an audience at the University of Virginia on April 26.

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