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It has been a year since President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Analysts cite some policy successes, but they say the president has a long way to go on a variety of peacemaking efforts, ranging from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Middle East peace process, to reducing the threat from nuclear weapons.

NPR NEWS INVESTIGATION: The two officials were underground, unsupervised for as long as four hours after the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in April. Massey Energy says the pair were searching for survivors, but some investigators and experts are concerned they could have tampered with evidence.

There's something different about the way more and more people are expressing their anger these days. We can put our finger on it.

Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the Food and Drug Administration is limited by law to a mostly reactive stance on food safety and argued that it needs a more "preventive approach." she said Congress should pass pending legislation that would expand the FDA's reach.

Investigators have recovered three key pieces of evidence in the explosion that killed 29 mine workers in West Virginia on April 5, NPR has learned. The evidence includes two safety devices that sound alarms and shut down mining machines when methane gas approaches explosive levels. Investigators want to know whether the devices were a factor in the blast.

Schorr, a longtime NPR contributor, broke stories during the Cold War and Watergate that won him numerous awards — as well as the enmity of presidents. He was 93.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, emergency management became a critical priority. As a result, more American colleges began offering classes on how to deal with an increasingly dangerous world. Students are now seeking job security in our national insecurity.

The state declared areas of the Gulf of Mexico off-limits to fishing and shrimping because of fears of contamination from the BP spill. But that hasn't stopped some commercial and recreational fishers. Some set out at night, hoping to elude game officials.

San Diego County Sheriff's deputies say their crackdown on underage drinking parties in Vista last weekend was a success. Officials say the city's social host ordinance is having a deterrent effect.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.