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Occupy Demonstrators Mark Two Months Of Protests

From New York to California and places in between, Occupy protesters are in the streets Thursday, exactly two months after the movement began. Police in riot gear were deployed in lower Manhattan Thursday morning as hundreds of demonstrators marched with the aim of shutting down Wall Street.

Where are we going, skip? Houston Astros manager Brad Mills, left, and pitching coach Doug Brocail.

Baseball's Houston Astros To Switch Leagues In 2013

The team will move from the National League to the American. Also, Major League Baseball is adding one "wild card" team to each league's playoffs.

A member of the Mingus Big Band takes shelter from the rain.

Mingus Big Band And Miguel Zenon On JazzSet

Hear colorful and passionate sets from both large ensembles, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Pia Maria Holmgren (Sámi in Sweden) performs at last year's Liet International minority song contest.

A Televised Singing Competition With A Mission

A less kitschy version of Eurovision showcases music sung in languages at risk of disappearing.

U.S. Behind The Curve In Drunk Driving, Author Finds

Barron Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University, wrote One for the Road, about the history of drunk driving in America. And what he found was that the legal limit is very lenient, especially compared with other countries. And there is little political will to change it.

A large gathering of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement attend a rally in Union Square in New York City.

Occupy Wall Street: A Lesson On An 'Organic Movement'

The Occupy Movement is purposely fractured and protesters take pride in the kind of decentralized governance they have created.

Congressional Stock Trades Get Scrutiny

The STOCK Act, a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stock based on nonpublic information they get because they're lawmakers, has 61 co-sponsors and counting. What's remarkable about this is the STOCK Act had just nine co-sponsors last week.

Federal Prosecutors Will Look Into Fatal Shootings By Miami Police

Federal prosecutors say they're investigating a series of shootings in Miami, in which the city's police officers fired upon people in the black community nine times over a period of less than 18 months. Seven people were killed.

Joshua Littman and his mother, Sarah, visited StoryCorps for the second time to talk about their evolving relationship. Their first visit was in 2006.

The Parenting Dance: Hold Tight While Letting Go

Sarah Littman is struggling a little with her son, Joshua, being away at college. He is having a hard time adjusting to being away from home and understanding why he's in college in the first place.

In September 1994, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich addressed Republican congressional candidates on Capitol Hill during a rally where they pledged a new "Contract with America." Months later, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time in decades, and Gingrich became speaker of the House.

To Imagine A Gingrich Presidency, Look To The '90s

Newt Gingrich rose to prominence as the leader of the 1994 Republican revolution, in which the GOP took back the House majority after 40 years in the wilderness. During his reign, Congress forced a government shutdown, overhauled the welfare system, balanced the budget for the first time in decades and impeached the president.

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