5/19/2013 10:37 AM
| EYDER PERALTA
| NPR
David Beckham, the storied midfielder who rose to international fame because of his style on and off the pitch, played his last home game for Paris Saint-Germain last night.
As the AP reports, despite being used to the lights and the big stage, Beckham, who announced his retirement from soccer last week, was finally overwhelmed.
5/18/2013 8:47 AM
| Neda Ulaby
| NPR
When actress Geena Davis was watching children's shows with her daughter a few years ago, she became so troubled by the lack of female representation, she started a think tank on gender in the media. The Geena Davis Institute recently partnered with University of California, Los Angeles, professors to conduct a study analyzing gender roles and jobs on screen.
5/17/2013 3:48 PM
| Justine Bentley
| KVCR
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Just recently, we connected with UC Riverside professor, Juan Felipe Herrera. He spoke about what he and his students have done to help the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
5/17/2013 11:09 AM
| Annalisa Quinn
| NPR
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
Amazon faces a grilling from members of Britain's Parliament over its extremely low U.K. corporate tax payments, Reuters reported Friday. As NPR noted on Thursday, Amazon has the subject of intense scrutiny after it was revealed that the Internet retailer's U.K. unit paid only slightly more in taxes than it received in government grants because its sales are routed through Luxembourg.
5/17/2013 10:44 AM
| Amy Quinton
| CCN
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The Delta Stewardship Council has unanimously approved the final plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. As Amy Quinton reports from Sacramento, the plan is designed to protect the Delta ecosystem while providing a more reliable supply of water for California.
The Council’s goal was to create a legally enforceable long -term management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The vote came after two-and-a-half years of study and almost 100 public meetings.
5/17/2013 10:41 AM
| Emily Harris
| NPR
As 17-year-old Tarik al-Nakib tells it, he was just out to buy some bread one afternoon in April when a silver bus from the Gaza Strip police department pulled up next to him.
"One guy opened the door and asked me to get in the bus," Nakib says. "Another came out and pushed me in. I was trying to understand what was going on, what did I do? No one wanted to answer me."
5/17/2013 10:38 AM
| Mark Memmott
| NPR
(Most recent update: 12:50 p.m. ET.)
Saying that "foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection," the outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service told Congress on Friday that he and the agency want to apologize for the targeting of some conservative groups during the 2012 campaign cycle.
5/17/2013 10:34 AM
| Howard Berkes
| NPR
The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a massive explosion in 2010 has provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung.
On Monday, a team of pathologists and lung disease experts will present the results of a detailed study of lung tissue from some of the victims of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia. They'll describe the findings at the American Thoracic Society's annual conference in Philadelphia this weekend.
5/17/2013 10:32 AM
| Marianne McCune
| NPR
Sales of guns and ammunition rose after President Obama took office in 2008, and they went through the roof starting late last year, when a school shooting led to a push for new gun control measures. That's led to a prolonged ammunition shortage, even with manufacturers running at full capacity.
5/17/2013 10:28 AM
| Mark Memmott
| NPR
Dick Trickle, a "short-track hero" in the '70s and '80s who moved to the NASCAR circuit later in his career, died Thursday.
According to The Charlotte Observer, the 71-year-old was killed by "an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Lincoln County [N.C.] deputies said."
