Mar 19th, 2010 · A Jaguar driven by Britain's Queen Elizabeth between 2001 and 2004 is up for sale. A memorabilia dealer bought it after the Queen owned it, and now he's selling it. The car comes with some regal extras — including an armrest designed to hold the Queen's famous handbag.
Mar 18th, 2010 · Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains how Khan's network continues to threaten global security.
Mar 17th, 2010 · The Washington Post called Karl Rove the "the most influential and controversial presidential strategist of his generation." Rove, who ran President George W Bush's campaigns from 1994-2004, served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff in the White House. His new memoir is called Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.
Mar 15th, 2010 · When Newsom first emerged on the musical landscape in 2004 with The Milk-Eyed Mender, a lot of people thought she was a whimsical novelty act. But this year, the singer returned with a stunningly ambitious, three-disc collection called Have One on Me. Newsom's voice has matured; the orchestrations are richer and the themes darker. Hear the singer perform live in a full concert, webcast on NPR.org from Washington, D.C.
Feb 28th, 2010 · Pesticides carried from farm fields by the winds make hundreds of Californians ill each year — and advocates for stricter controls say many more cases go unreported. The state passed a law in 2004 to address the problem, but the law hasn't stopped people from getting sick.
Feb 11th, 2010 · The former president, 63, was hospitalized Thursday after suffering chest discomfort. Doctors placed two stents in one of his coronary arteries. Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 to open four blocked arteries.
Feb 11th, 2010 · The former president, 63, was hospitalized Thursday after suffering chest discomfort. Doctors placed two stents in one of his coronary arteries. Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 to open four blocked arteries.
Feb 7th, 2010 · Sunday should mark the end of a bitterly-fought presidential campaign in Ukraine. But many people across the former Soviet republic fear whichever candidate loses will challenge the results in court. That is exactly what happened at the end of 2004, when a court threw out a rigged election and street protests began what became known as the Orange Revolution. NPR's David Greene reports from Kiev's Independence Square, the heart of those 2004 protests.