Search results for

President Clinton began a three-day campaign swing today that will take him to Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and California. Today in Kansas City, the president addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Governors' Association and said that the welfare reform legislation he recently signed will only be successful if states and businesses can work together to create jobs. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

More than a decade after a lawsuit charging Dallas with racism in its public housing policies, public housing units will soon be built in Dallas' white suburbs for minorities. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that while some white homeowners worked to forge a compromise on the project, others remain angry about having public housing in their neighborhood.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on today's court hearing during which a judge ordered Major League umpires back to work. The umpires had threatened a protest strike over the delayed punishment meted out to Orioles player Roberto Alomar, who spit in the face of an umpire when he got into a heated argument over a call.

Several of Mexico's most-acclaimed musicians are living in Texas and playing in Tex-Mex burrito joints and at rodeos. But they don't seem to mind...because they're making a LOT more money doing that than they would have if they'd stayed in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.

With the renewed focus on the violent lyrics of gangsta rap after the death of Tupac Shakur, a group of Minneapolis rappers -- who call their collective Head Shots -- say they want to take rap back to its roots...and away from the corporate music industry they say has corrupted it. Chris Roberts reports.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from the United Nations on the signing today of a treaty banning nuclear testing. The United States was the first to sign the treaty and following the signing, President Clinton delivered his annual address to the U.N. General Assembly. He called for all countries to get toughter on terrorists and drug traffickers.

Virginia Biggar reports on the second day of the civil trial of O.J. Simpson. Lawyers for the families of the murder victims summed up their opening statement by describing Simpson as obsessed with rejections by his ex-wife. Simpson's lawyers began their statement with a different take on the relationship, arguing that it was Nicole Brown Simpson who pursued her ex-husband, and who kept up a warm and friendly relationship.

Women taking estrogen may be taking a risk if they also drink alcohol. For reasons yet to be determined, one or two drinks can increase the amount of estrogen circulating in the blood. And high levels of estrogen have been linked to an increase in breast cancer, though that link has never been conclusively proved. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

It's still raining over much of the west. Gamblers are trapped in Reno hotels, and the casinos and bordellos are closed down for the first time in 100 years. The governor of Idaho has declared several counties disaster areas. In California, rivers in Napa and Sonoma counties are above flood stage. Damage is in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- much of it because of bad planning, according to experts. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to withdraw from the market a widely used antihistamine called Seldane. It says that the very rare occurence of potentially fatal heart disease outweighs the drug's benefits. A new variant of the drug was just approved by the FDA four months ago, and the agency is advising patients to ask their doctors whether to switch antihistamines. NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports.