Hunting For Traces Of America's First Inhabitants

Reporting in Science, researchers write of finding blades and spear points that pre-date Clovis tools ? long thought to be the earliest evidence of people in the Americas. Archaeologist Michael B. Collins talks about how the discovery could change theories about the first inhabitants.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134855884/Hunting-For-Traces-Of-Americas-First-Inhabitants?ft=1&f=1007

Patrick McHenry Kristi Noem Devin Nunes Tom Perriello

Tea Party's Influence Felt In New Hampshire

Republicans hoping to win New Hampshire's 2012 presidential primary will find that the landscape in that state has changed dramatically. New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers reports the Tea Party has lots of new clout with the state's GOP.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/26/134878598/Tea-Partys-Influence-Felt-In-New-Hampshire?ft=1&f=1014

Stephanie Schriock Bakari Sellers Kyrsten Sinema Brendan Steinhauser

Hail On The Chief: Obama Takes Hits On All Sides

On issues from Libya to the budget, the president is under political attack from the right and from the left, by Republicans and members of his own party. But even so, Obama has managed to hold on to sizable support in public opinion polls.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134850190/hell-on-the-chief-obama-takes-hits-on-all-sides?ft=1&f=1014

Nathan Daschle Jennifer O\'Malley Dillon Sean Duffy Mike DuHaime

The Root: How Racism Tainted Women's Suffrage

As Women's History Month winds to a close, Monee Fields-White of The Root takes a peek into the women's suffrage movement, and reveals how an 1894 showdown between anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and temperance leader Frances E. Willard revealed the grip that racial resentment had over women's voting rights.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134849480/the-root-how-racism-tainted-womens-suffrage?ft=1&f=1057

Nathan Daschle Jennifer O\'Malley Dillon Sean Duffy Mike DuHaime

Russia To Expedite Visas For Figure Skating Worlds

Officials will provide easier access to the often difficult to obtain visas for the athletes, coaches, officials and fans going to next month's rescheduled event. After the earthquake, tsunami and related nuclear crisis, Japanese officials said they could not host the world figure skating championships in Tokyo.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134859491/russia-to-expedite-visas-for-figure-skating-worlds?ft=1&f=1004

Joe Wilson Jeb Bush James Dobson Ann Coulter

Obama Agency Review Looks To Snip The Red Tape

By all accounts, the government doesn't operate very efficiently when it comes to promoting exports, which the Obama administration says is key to creating more jobs. The president has ordered a study of how to make government more efficient in order to improve the economy, but reorganizing the American bureaucracy is fraught with pitfalls.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/134804029/obama-agency-review-looks-to-snip-the-red-tape?ft=1&f=1014

Jake Sullivan MARK SANFORD Jay Webber TOM DELAY