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We lost Ed McMahon in 2009, but his legacy is best remembered as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show and as the host of Star…

New to the WKMS schedule Wednesdays at 6:30 pm, hear The Treatment hosted by Elvis Mitchell, produced by KCRW, a conversational program about movies,…

Matthew Houck, who records as Phosphorescent, shares how meeting his partner in a New England bar, having a child and almost dying from meningitis informed his new music.

Officials in Cadiz wanted to give Joaquin Garcia an award for service but no one could find him. According to reports, he'd largely stopped coming to work. He is contesting the $30,000 fine.

Shawn Fain has been UAW president for less than six months, elected in the first direct ballot where members picked their leadership. Now he's in the spotlight as the union starts to strike.

Three children and three adults are dead following a shooting this morning at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. Authorities say the shooter was killed by police.

A recent spy flap between the United States and France has focused attention on the issue and ethics of industrial espionage -- spying on foreign firms to gain trade secrets and an advantage in the global marketplace. NPR's Dan Charles reports that the CIA is now warning U.S. companies against foreign spy operations while intelligence specialists are advising U.S. companies to develop espionage capabilities of their own.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that while many politicians and educators are busily trying to get American schools to work harder at producing students who can compete in the international marketplace, some parents are concerned that their kids are working too hard. They fear the pressure to complete large homework assignments and to get ahead in school is destroying their children's love for learning, and is turning childhood into an ordeal.

Steven LaFon is the Associate Director of the Anti-Viral Clinical research for Glaxo-Wellcome. He says he empathizes with Getty, and that the company's researchers are working as fast as they can to get the drug 15-92 to the marketplace. He says although the results of trials have been very encouraging, it is still in the very early stages of the approval and marketing process.

Government-backed mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are facing troubles. Bill Seidman, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, says the agencies, which play a huge role in the marketplace, "are not insolvent but are certainly weakened."