Новости за 16.10.2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers and Audie Cornish read some listener comments about our coverage of the escalating violence in Jerusalem.

A man who has lived in the U.S. for three years is returning to Syria because his fiancé of four years has no chance of coming to the U.S.

Jeff Gordon's clean cut style helped NASCAR connect with a new generation of racing fans. Many are reflecting on how Gordon helped change the sport as he finishes his final season.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Joseph and Kathleen Stafford, two of the Americans former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor sheltered during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is only two years old, and it's already requiring millions of dollars in repairs. The project, 10 years late and $5 billion over budget, is one of California's most expensive public works projects. Commuters are frustrated over cost overruns.

For the first time, Illinois football will have a Mandarin play-by-play and color team calling the game for streaming in China. The University of Illinois has a huge number of Chinese students, and the activity has been getting the community more involved in campus culture.

The Knick returns for its second season on Cinemax Friday night. And with it, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh seems to be making good on his vow to turn his back on the film world and work exclusively in TV. He also has a new show on Amazon called Red Oaks, a comedy set in the 1980s. NPR reviews both and says Soderbergh's success is enabling him to shift power in the TV business from writer/producers to director/producers, and that power shift has a lot of repercussions.

President Obama urged calm amid the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence at a press conference with the South Korean president. He said the U.S. and Russia are at strategic odds on Syria and declined to wade far into the 2016 presidential race.

Musician Patti Smith received a surprising gift Thursday. While at a reading of her new memoir, a fan stood up, holding a bag of items stolen from Smith over 30 years ago.

The West Virginia songwriter's heartfelt Americana has earned him a vocal Appalachian fan base.

Google gets another win in a case by book authors and publishers challenging its digital library. Disputes over "fair use" of copyrighted material are bound to continue as more stuff ends up online.

The co-founder of the Monty Python troupe admits he wasn't "naturally gifted" at physical comedy. His memoir, So, Anyway..., covers his boyhood and early career. Originally broadcast Dec. 16, 2014.

The blue-collar Detroit MC uses sharp observations, wry humor and a funky loop to deliver a meditation on class warfare and the synthetic drug craze.

Hear the witty folk-rock singer give his new album, Sermon On The Rocks, the acoustic treatment.

The band's clever, thoughtful, infectious, harmony-filled music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne.

Over a decades-long career, Whiting sang everything from jazz and pop standards to country music.

The other white meat was yanked from prison menus earlier this month, but it's back on prisoners' plates following a push from hog farmers and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley.

The singer performs "On Such a Night As This" and "You'll Never Know" with host Michael Feinstein.

A group of authors had sued over Google's effort to compile a digital library, arguing the project was illegal. An appeals court found the program complies with copyright law.

Times change and so do manners. We reassess good behavior in 2015.

As Brandon Butler goes on a reunion tour with the '90s emo band Boys Life, he's also got something new. Featuring members of Coliseum, Six Bells plays boogie-rock with a hardcore backbone.

An agreement between New York's attorney general and four companies that operate urgent care centers in the state aims to curb confusing billing practices that left unwitting consumers on the hook.

Colum McCann's new story collection plays with images of surveillance — traffic cams, nanny cams — to capture a complex picture of love, loss, pain and the way our lives so swiftly pass away.

Martin Atkins has a theory about the never-ending series of format changes, from the earliest phonographs to streaming services.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson was playing touch rugby while on a trade visit to Japan. Apparently, Johnson forgot about the touch part and smashed into a 10-year-old child with his shoulder.