Donald trump arrives on the u. S. Mexico border as he continues his aggressive president ial campaign against immigration. Secrets of the super bugs approximate which we meet the british scientist trying to defeat deadly bacteria. I have the sports news. Angry and disappointed with drug cheats, one man in particular. Hello there warm welcome to the program. Turkey joined forces with the United States to tackle the growing threat close to its borders by Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Theyve greed to allow u. S. War Coalition War planes to use the air base in turkey for airstrikes against the armed Group Following phone discussions between the turkish president and barack obama thursday. That comes after a heavy fire firefighter on the turkeysyria border in which one soldier was killed and another wounded. Vehicles were also hit. Earlier one police man was shot in the mainly kurdish town in southern turkey. We have this update. Tensions are on the rice on turkeys border with syria
2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
History professor Theodore Wilson talks about their wartime experiences and how that later influenced them as future commanders in chief. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im not sure how much i knew about world war ii, but i do very much appreciate henrys very generous introduction. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im i am delighted to be taking part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii in europe and particularly tonight in europe sponsored by the Truman Library institute and the Kansas City Public Library. Institutions with which i have enjoyed opportunities to cooperate and for which i have enormous respect as sources of intellectual inquiry in this region. One caveat before i take you back to the america of 1941 to 1945. Title of my lecture is a gloss on tom brokaws bestseller the greatest generation, which
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to the main event the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ron and i am an editor correspondent broadcaster at npr and also thank you and a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrell to his friends and he has written his third book. His first was called Clarence Darrow attorney for the. I think you should buy that book just for the title. The second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century and then turn to Richard Nixon Richard Nixon, the life. He is such a popular character. Jack because of that trajectory i have to ask what made you turn to nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle to the book was Richard Nixon an american tragedy and i was struck as they did the research that people like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would wri
Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future Social Security benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are an important part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they are eligible, that they will receive them quickly. But for those