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Tombs distills a barrage of sound into something that, while familiar, is crushingly dynamic.

After 22 years hosting Weekend Edition Sunday, Liane Hansen's last show is May 29. We're remembering some of our favorite moments with her and want to hear yours, too.

The school kicked the reservist training program off campus 40 years ago in protest of the Vietnam war.

President Obama and his aides avoided expressing racial grievance during the 2008 campaign. And in dealing with the birther issue, they have continued that approach, leaving it to others to claim that birtherism has a racial and even racist element to it.

"Weak dollar" doesn't have a nice ring to it — particularly if you have a bank account full of dollars. But a weaker dollar is good for U.S. exports, which are key to economic growth.

A security analyst says hackers are trying to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers they say come from Sony's database.

Iran's government supported the protests in Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt, but it fears losing an ally if Syrian President Bashar Assad falls. Among other benefits, the Syrian connection is crucial for Iran's relationship with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Federal Transit Administration has determined that New Jersey must repay the money it spent on early design and engineering work for a New Jersey-New York train tunnel that Gov. Chris Christie scrapped.

How did a barren, icy island become a thriving, modern economy?

In 1951, a woman died of cervical cancer, but her remarkably reproductive cells — taken without her knowledge — survived. Those cells have since led to countless medical breakthroughs. Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tops the list this week.