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Beached Dolphins Keep Cape Cod Rescuers Busy

Dolphins have been stranding themselves along the shores of Cape Cod, Mass., since the Pilgrims’ times, and this winter is no different. What is different is how long the latest round of strandings has lasted — almost a month. So far, rescuers have counted 147 strandings and 38 successful rescues and releases. No one knows [...]

Detroit Schools’ No. 1 Mission: Getting Kids To Class

Ask Detroit teachers about their biggest challenge and many will say, “You can’t teach kids who don’t come to class.” Last year, the average Detroit public high school student missed at least 28 days of school. Now, as part of its effort to get parents more involved, the district has launched a major initiative to [...]

Counting The GOP Delegates, But Not Before They’re Official

In honor of Tuesday’s delegate-free caucuses and primary, NPR is launching a 2012 Delegate Tracker. The NPR Elections Unit tracker credits a candidate with delegates only when party rule or state law unambiguously awards those delegates to that candidate. New Hampshire and Nevada, for example, have clear rules for how delegates are to be awarded [...]

Report: Data Show No ‘Upsurge In Muslim-American Terrorism’

There was a decline last year in the already “small” number of Muslim-Americans indicted for violent terrorist plots and the rate of radicalization among that group remains “far less than many feared” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a researcher at North Carolina’s Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security reports today. According to University [...]

Romney Still Looks Like Frontrunner Even After Santorum’s 3-State Romp

Mitt Romney can take solace Wednesday in the words of Mark Hanna, the 19th century Ohio industrialist and political boss who once famously said: “There are two things that are important in politics, money and I can’t remember the second.” After Rick Santorum won handily Tuesday in the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and the Missouri [...]

Recall Reveals An Egg’s Long Path To The Deli Sandwich

What did a Cobb salad and a chicken salad have in common that have made them the latest entries in a big ongoing food safety recall? The answer is eggs. Hard-boiled eggs, to be precise. More than one million eggs bound for supermarkets, delis, and convenience stores have been recalled since late January for possible [...]

Case In Britain Echoes Dilemma At Guantanamo

A legal case in Britain involving a radical cleric has raised new questions about whether authorities can hold a suspected terrorist forever. An immigration judge ruled Monday that a longtime terrorism suspect and detainee in the U.K. should be released on bail. The man at the center of the case, Abu Qatada, 51, has not [...]

Milestone At University Of Michigan: Muslim Chaplain

Although the population of Muslim students is growing, there are only about 30 Muslim chaplains at colleges across the country. This semester, the University of Michigan became the first public university with an endowed position for a Muslim chaplain. “Muslims need to rely on somebody through times of hardship,” says Mohammed Tayssir Safi, who was [...]

White House: ‘Ways To Resolve’ Contraception Issue

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has joined the chorus criticizing President Obama over a controversial policy that would require most employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, to include birth control in their employees’ health insurance. Catholic opinion leaders have denounced the policy as an assault on their religious freedom. Ever since priests first took to [...]

‘Shake-And-Bake’ Meth Causes Uptick In Burn Victims

Dennis Potter says he started doing meth when he was 16. Two years later, he learned how to make it. “It’s so easy,” he says. “Any person can do it. You can go to Walgreens, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, and they sell every bit of the ingredients.” Those ingredients include things like drain cleaner, lithium [...]