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Joel and Ethan Coen are celebrating a big win. Their crime saga No Country for Old Men was the big winner at Sunday's Academy Awards, taking home four Oscars, including Best Picture.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigned yesterday, citing "personal and family matters." But his departure comes amid growing allegations of influence peddling. Ann Lott, of the Dallas Housing Authority, and Bruce Katz, of the Brookings Institution, discuss the allegations against Jackson.

Nations must act on climate change under international law — if they don’t, they could be held liable.

This is the story of what it takes to produce a national vaccine supply.

The grand final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest takes place on Saturday, May 17, in Basel, Switzerland. It's an annual celebration of melody, rhythm, fabulousness and glitter.

A fast-moving fire in San Bernardino, California has now engulfed more than 6,000 acres, as two fires in Northern California continue to burn.

It’s estimated the leak in Los Angeles has pumped 4.6 billion cubic feet of potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

Earlier this week, a 6-year-old boy passed away in Washington state from a mysterious ailment suspected to be acute flaccid myelitis.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a recently completed study by two Columbia University anthropologists who examined the difficulties of finding a job at fast food restaurants in the inner city. They concluded that these jobs, while low paying, are coveted and that there are not enough of them to go around. 6:00 8. Profile of Minister - Daniel travels to the southwestern African country of Namibia and meets Libertine Amathila, the Namibian Minsiter of Housing and Local Government. She is the most politically powerful woman in the country and may be the first woman to run for president in Africa.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports committee members from both the House and Senate questioned Bridgestone-Firestone and Ford Motor Company executives on Capitol Hill yesterday about the recall of more than 6 and a half million tires. Legislators are promising more hearings in the future. The questions centered upon how both companies handled the recall, and why it took so long for officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a recall.