Search results for

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton today addressed the delegates of the National Baptist Convention in Orlando, as he began the second day of a two-day campaign swing through Florida, a state he hopes to win in November. He talked to the crowd about new Labor Department figures showing the lowest unemployment rate in seven years, but also asked the church representatives to offer jobs to people trying to get off welfare.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole's campaign trip to New Jersey today, where he talked about his 15 percent tax cut proposal. He was accompanied by N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose own tax cut proposal three year's ago helped her with a come-from-behind victory on election day.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo that the results of the race for the three-man national presidency won't be announced until tomorrow. This is the most closely-watched race...the top vote getter will become the first chairman of the rotating presidency. International supervisors said that election day went well, despite some campaigning that was not desirable. There are also some changes that must be made before municipal elections are held.

The campaign reform group Common Cause today asked for an independent counsel to investigate what it called "an illegal scheme" on the part of both the Republican and Democratic parties to circumvent campaign finance laws by buying television ads that presidential candidates Bob Dole and President Clinton should have paid for, because the ads weren't for party-building, but were meant to support the candidates. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the increasing allure that the Orthodox Christian Church holds for American Protestants. One Orthodox congregation in Northern California is representative. Virtually the entire membership of St. Peter and Paul Orthodox church is American converts, attracted by the ancient, rigorous theology and its sheer constancy across the centuries. But ethnic traditionalists worry that even the most devout American converts carry with them the unwelcome seeds of change.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to decide on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act. Passed by Congress early this year as part of the massive Telecommunications law, the Act restricts the transmission of so-called indecent material on the Internet. A federal judge declared the Act violated free speech guarantees and blocked its enforcement. The Supreme Court will hear the government's appeal of that decision. A ruling is expected next summer.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports from San Francisco on a suit brought by a Russian lesbian against the U.S. government after her request for asylum was turned down. The 34-year-old woman argues that she will be persecuted if returned to Russia. She is one a dozens of homosexuals who have been seeking asylum here recently on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Kathy Lohr reports that it hasn't been a good holiday season for ValuJet. The airline canceled some flights because it hadn't gotten final permission from the government to fly the routes. ValuJet has been struggling ever since the crash of its flight 592 in the Everglades last May, which killed everyone on board. The airline was shut down for 3 months.

The World's small tribal languages are disappearing; of the 174 native american languages in the U.S., all but twenty are currently endangered. Reporter Mary Losure, of Minnesota Public Radio, visits the Mille Lacs reservation in central Minnesota where the Ojibwe are using money from gambling to develop a new program of teaching language to their children. The kids are learning Ojibwe on computer and by singing popular songs written especially for them.

Conservationists argue that the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species should begin regulating trade in Chilean sea bass. Pirate fishing fleets have put a sharp dent in stocks of the popular food fish. NPR's John Nielsen reports.