WRTI - Site Search

A relative of an inmate observes Mexican police behind the security fence after a riot inside Apodaca prison near Monterrey. At least 44 inmates were killed during Sunday's riot, and about 30 alleged members of the drug cartel Los Zetas were rushed out of the prison.

Prison Break Epitomizes Mexican Drug War Woes

Officials in Mexico are offering a reward of nearly $1 million for the capture of 30 inmates who broke out of a prison in the northern state of Nuevo Leon on Sunday. The governor says the inmates staged a riot to create a diversion for their escape. Forty-four inmates died in the violence.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Kent County Lincoln Day Dinner on Monday in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Santorum's Problem With Women Could Be His Glass Ceiling

Attracting the votes of women was already the No. 1 affliction for the Republican Party in 2012. Nominating a candidate who personifies the gender gap in American politics is not a likely antidote.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the studio of the French TV network TF1.

Lawyer Says Strauss-Kahn Didn't Know Women At Orgies Were Prostitutes

Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who faced a sexual assault charge in New York City last year — a charge that was dropped — is being questioned about an alleged multinational prostitution ring.

Back On The Air, Stephen Colbert Gives Nod To Ailing Mom

Without directly saying so, Comedy Central's funnyman all-but-confirmed Monday night that he was off the air for two days last week because his 91-year-old mother Lorna has been ill.

Also: More shelling in the Syrian city of Homs; Yemenis vote in single-candidate presidential election; Stephen Colbert returns to the airwaves.

Romney Benefits From Campaign, SuperPAC Funds

Reports filed at the Federal Election Commission show the GOP presidential hopefuls spent a lot of cash in January, what with contests in four states. Also spending a lot of money, as it turns out, were the richly financed superPACS that support the candidates.

Khader Adnan, a senior member of the radical Islamic Jihad group, has been held by Israel without charge. Israel agreed Tuesday to release Adnan, 33, who was on a hunger strike for more than two months.

Israel Agrees To Free Palestinian Hunger Striker

Palestinians have long complained about the Israeli practice of detention without trial. One such prisoner went on a hunger strike for more than two months, and Israel has now agreed to free him.

Casaundra Bronner, of Hazelwood, Mo., worked in marketing before being laid off in March 2010. She found a job again in March 2011 but is still uninsured and having trouble getting the health care she needs.

Even When Employed, Health Care A Challenge

A little more than a year ago, NPR launched the Road Back to Work series, following six people in St. Louis who started 2011 unemployed and were searching for work. Like so many Americans, the people we followed have had difficulty getting health coverage, even after returning to work.

Russians take part in a pro-Putin rally at a Moscow park on Feb. 4. Pro-Kremlin forces have been accused of paying people to attend campaign events ahead of the presidential election in March.

Rent-A-Crowds May Be Boosting Pro-Putin Campaign

Since opposition protesters began taking to the streets in December, Russian authorities have been mounting pro-Kremlin rallies. But organizers of the pro-Putin events have been accused of padding their numbers by pressing government workers to attend, and even paying for hired extras.

A woman is taken away by police after fainting during clashes when relatives of inmates killed during last week's prison fire stormed the restricted area of the morgue in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Monday.

Honduras Says Deadly Prison Fire Started By Cigarette

Government officials said the fire, which killed 359, was accidentally set when an inmate fell asleep with a lit cigarette.

Search results for