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Just before the clashes of the Arab Spring erupted in Yemen, Patrick Symmes of Outside Magazine arrived to report on tourism in the desert country. Symmes experienced Yemen's culture, food, and sand dunes — along with police barricades, pat downs and a growing revolutionary buzz in the air.

A Republican California State Senator says he has a way to save some of the state's low income health programs from the budget axe. He says the answer is legislation to get rid of a statewide program

The Federal Reserve, citing a marked slowing in the economy and consumer spending, cut interest rates for the second time in three weeks, in hopes of preventing a prolonged recession. The half-point cut brings the fed funds rate to 1.0 percent, the lowest since 2004.

The U.S. Transportation Department announced new limits Monday on how long airline passengers will be forced to sit in planes stuck on airport tarmacs. Starting in the spring, planes must return to the terminal if the delay exceeds three hours.

Officials said Monday they've started capturing some of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico -- marking the first time in more than three weeks that any of the company's strategies have worked to slow the flow.

How can we make a sustainable energy future if we don't know the history of our energy consumption? We speak to Glaciologist Dr. Richard Alley about the new PBS series "Earth-The Operators' Manual."

Backspacer is Pearl Jam's first studio album since the musicians became free agents, finally fulfilling a seven-album contract with Sony. That process took 15 years. The band is now on its own, striking distribution deals with major corporations, a turnaround for the once very anti-corporate band.

A Bakersfield lawmaker's DUI arrest is turning into a story about his sexuality. We're joined on Morning Edition by nonpartisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy.

The outcry from the late January deaths of 15 young people in Juarez has led President Felipe Calderon to pledge to pump millions of dollars into civic programs in what's become one of the deadliest cities in the world.

A private Republican National Committee document made public this week suggests that fundraisers shake the money trees by playing on fears of President Obama and "socialism." But despite the kerfuffle the memo has ignited in Washington, RNC members stand by the strategy.