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  • Tuning in to TV

    The history of slavery in America is a history of resistance, rebellion. Yet, movies and TV do not always showcase those themes.


  • Kyle, Kenny, Stan and the rest of the gang from "South Park" will be around through 2016 on Comedy Central.

    Tuning in to TV

    Don Draper, the dashing but troubled hero of the cult television drama "Mad Men," will be a withered octogenarian when the series eventually comes to an end, its creator said.


  • NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me' to debut on TV

    NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me" is coming to TV for the first time.


  • An inadvertent "open mic" night caught French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama disparaging their Israeli counterpart. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway

    It is a revealing and possibly damning bit of presidential carelessness: That would be President Obama's "open mic" mishap with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.


  • NPR host Cornish moving to 'All Things Considered'

    NPR says "Weekend Edition Sunday" host Audie Cornish has been assigned to co-host the popular weekday show "All Things Considered" when Michele Norris temporarily steps down.


  • This undated handout photo provided by WDAV shows Lisa Simeone. Simeone, a freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program that airs on NPR affiliates after she became a spokeswoman for a Washington protest because her producers believed she violated the public radio network's code of ethics, the host said Thursday. (AP Photo, WDAV, Sam Kittner)

    Host's role in protest leads NPR to cut ties

    NPR will no longer distribute the affiliate-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show's host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.


  • NPR dumping opera show over host's DC protest

    NPR will no longer distribute the member station-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.


  • APNewsBreak: NPR dumps opera show over DC protest

    NPR will no longer distribute the affiliate-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.


  • Freelancer heard on NPR stations fired for protest

    A freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program that airs on NPR affiliates because she helped organize a Washington protest, the host said Thursday, while the producers of another show defended her work and said she hasn't violated their policies.


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