Mass Bay Area tech layoffs thrust thousands of H-1B visa holders into frantic job hunt

WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Russia. How likely is a prisoner swap?

This Houston student grew up in the US. Now he may be forced to self-deport to India due to a visa backlog.

Immigration experts sound alarm over new federal office on denaturalizations

Under Trump, immigrants face increasingly long and complicated road to citizenship

How a US policy is tearing apart this same-sex couple and their children

Brazil’s new far-right government issues decrees across sectors

There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship

It was once easier to go unnoticed, but some DACA recipients from Europe and Canada say they are ready to join the immigration fight

Einstein’s handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million

The populist tide has spread to one of Central Europe’s last liberal democracies

How to keep kids safe in a toxic world

Studio 360 – Episode 847 – Dylan, Hamlet, Neuroscience – Josh Ritter

Russell Simmons on how you can get rich

Remembering radio host Casey Kasem and his Arab American roots

This new film looks at the real, enduring toll war exacts on soldiers

Are you Ukrainian or Russian? It’s complicated…

Can you create a national anthem from a mashup? Here’s why South Africa did it

What’s the big deal about US citizenship?

New information revealed in photos of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Dangerous Summer’

In Canada, Fort McMurray Radio Station Bans Neil Young

Music Heard on The Air, Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Lion

Mapouka: Ivory Coast’s Dance-Style Version of ‘Twerking’

Music Heard on the Air for August 29, 2013

50 Years Later: Josephine Baker’s Speech at the March on Washington Still Inspires

Eternity of Eagles

Steve Earle Performs “Christmas in Washington”

Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Pop: Googoosh to Farrokhzad

Devil’s Advocate: the Legacy of Jacques Verges

Alan Alda: Reigniting The Public’s Love of Science

New Movie Releases of the Week: Planes, Elysium, Lovelace and More

Remembering Eydie Gorme

Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Dangerous Summer’

American Band Bloodhound Gang Sparks Outrage in Russia

George Takei Backs Petition to Move Sochi Olympics

Immigration reform would bring end to U.S. visa program benefitting Africans

Weird Al more popular than ever, branching out into children’s books

Brazilian rap artist earns high praise from country’s music scene

Well-known Scottish actor Alan Cumming takes all roles in new Broadway showing of Macbeth

Fake accents, well-done, can make all the difference

Argentina’s Dirty War revisited after new pope is elected

Best picture winner Argo, nominees Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty draw criticism

Beck discusses Song Reader, do-it-yourself music project

Citizen science project needs your help to catalog Africa’s great animals

Lion populations on the decline as African savannas disappear

Despite differences, Guantanamo prison out-of-sight, if not mind, in presidential election

Olivia Wilde discusses new Kristof documentary ‘Half the Sky’

American veteran of Spanish Civil War remembers life under suspicion of communism

Regina Spektor’s new album has old roots

European court OKs extradition of terror suspects to the United States

Albert Einstein’s archives going online

The Vow, Journey 2 and Safe House make up a big weekend of new releases

Election moves to Nevada as Romney picks up Trump endorsement

Obama expected to foreshadow campaign in State of the Union address tonight

VIDEO: Sharon Bialek the 4th woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment

WTF Podcast host Marc Maron tells all

Why do we predict?

Would you eat lion meat?

Slaughter Nick for President … in Serbia