2011 September | Here & Now

Earlier this week, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration is still determined to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay Cub before next year’s election, despite opposition from the president’s opponents.

After 31 years and 15 albums, R.E.M. has announced that the band is calling it quits.

The leader of the NATO mission in Libya says isolated groups loyal to Moammar Gaddafi continue to be a threat to rebel forces, especially around Sirte.

In a recent court ruling in favor of the financial media firm Bloomberg LP, New York Judge Loretta Preska said the “the law does not mandate work-life balance.”

There’s a chance that FEMA could run out of disaster relief money next week and that the federal government could shut down next month, because of a dispute over disaster funding in Congress.

From The Detroit Experiment to Patrick James Grossi.

Pat Grossi grew up singing in the Philadelphia Boys Choir. Now he’s throwing his falsetto over harp and synthesizers in music that’s described as “sacred and clubby.”

New York Times Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid sat down with Robin to talk about recent events in the Middle East and Arab world.

Between tomorrow and Saturday, an out-of-service NASA satellite weighing 1,600 pounds is going to plummet to Earth. But scientists say don’t worry, it probably won’t hit you.

The federal government recently charged Bloomberg LP with discriminating against pregnant women and new mothers. But a judge dismissed the claims saying, “if you make choices that preference your family over your work… that has consequences.” Can a company ask you to put work before family?

When it went under, the solar company Solyndra took up to a half billion dollars in federal loans with it. Now many are asking whether solar companies should keep getting federally-backed loans.

In his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama stopped short of directly calling on the Palestinians to drop their plan to seek statehood recognition from the U.N. Security Council.

From the Funk Brothers to Bonobo.

In the early 20th century, hundreds of Japanese women came to the U.S. to marry men that they had only seen in photographs. They soon found out they had been deceived.

A new report reveals some disturbing findings about crops that are genetically-modified to kill bugs– the bugs might be winning.

The Yankees’ closer Mo Rivera broke a record with save number 602 Monday, or as one announcer put it “the greatest closer in history now has the most saves in history.”

The International Monetary Fund today downgraded its economic outlook for the U.S. by a full percentage point. The reason: The European debt crisis. Columnist Gretchen Morgenson joins us to explain.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is pressing ahead with his diplomatic campaign to gain full U.N. membership, brushing aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto.

From Radiohead to Ahmad Jamal.

We sat down with Wilco’s lead singer Jeff Tweedy as the Chicago-based alt-rock band releases their eighth studio album.