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Bulgaria Expresses 'Regret' For Holocaust Deportation Of Jews

The declaration also praised Bulgarian citizens and politicians for saving more than 48,000 Jews during the Holocaust.

Gov. Robert Bentley talks with reporters in his office, one day after Alabama Republicans adopted legislation to provide state tax credits to attend private schools.

Alabama's Contentious Education Bill In Limbo As Courts Review Cases

A week after a sweeping education bill was abruptly adopted by Alabama's Legislature, the legislation is on hold, with a circuit judge and the state's supreme court reviewing separate lawsuits filed over it. The bill gives tax credits to parents who move children from struggling schools to private or public schools.

Windsor County State's Attorney Appointed

Governor Peter Shumlin has appointed the deputy state's attorney for Orange County to become the state's attorney for Windsor County. Michael Kainen will…

Lakeshore Protection Bill Up for Hearing Next Week

A House committee holds a hearing next week on a bill that calls for new protections for the shorelines of Vermont's lakes and ponds.The bill would call…

Limericks

Carl reads three news-related limericks: Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite; Safety Pants; The Flat Pack Hotel.

Bluff The Listener

Our panelists tell three stories about attempts to improve your commute.

North Korea's rhetoric has been particularly aggressive recently, but analysts say it remains difficult to gauge the country's intentions and its military capabilities.

How Credible Are North Korea's Threats?

North Korea has been ratcheting up the rhetoric against South Korea and the United States. Analysts say the secretive nature of the country make it difficult to judge its intentions and capabilities, however.

Baxter is billed by its makers as a "collaborative manufacturing robot." It can work alongside humans to do simple, repetitive tasks.

Could This Robot Save Your Job?

Baxter can work alongside humans to do simple, repetitive tasks. Some analysts fear such automation will kill jobs but Baxter's inventor says such robots could keep the U.S. competitive.

An electoral worker at the National Tallying Center reads a newspaper headlining the problems in the vote counting and tallying process in Kenya this week. Election officials had to count the ballots from the nation's presidential election by hand after abandoning the electronic tabulation system.

How Kenya's High-Tech Voting Nearly Lost The Election

It was supposed to be the most modern election in African history. Biometric identification kits, computerized registration rolls and an SMS transmission of results. It all went spectacularly wrong.

Tadd Dameron (smiling at center) was an important figure in American jazz and bebop. He is shown here with Fats Navarro on trumpet, and Charlie Rouse and Ernie Henry on saxophone.

Tadd Dameron, A Jazz Master With A 'Lyrical Grace'

Dameron was a composer and pianist who fused the sophisticated arrangements of the Big Band era with bebop's complex harmonies. A new biography shines a light on the too-brief life of the man known as "The Architect of Bop."

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