Abbie Fentress Swanson

WQXR’s Bob Sherman is in Florida this week, listening very closely to music by the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin.

Adoptive parents will meet the orphans and their chaperones when they land in Miami today.

Toyota's CEO Akio Toyoda faced more than four hours of questioning today at a House committee investigating the recall of more than 6 million vehicles in the U.S. 

Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, apologized on national television Tuesday for an airstrike that killed almost two dozen people on Sunday.

Like many arts organizations, the Metropolitan Opera is operating with a deficit. Next season, the company has announced it will try to drum up funds by upping the price of its tickets.

After nearly a year of debate and ahead of his televised health care summit later this week, President Obama released his own version of health care reform legislation today.

Najibullah Zazi has admitted that he planned to carry out a "martyrdom" attack on the New York City subways.

The news comes as the joint NATO-Afghan offensive to stamp out the Taliban in Marja, Afghanistan heads into its second week.

The hearing is scheduled for next week. Earlier this week, Akio Toyoda had not planned to attend the hearing about his car company's safety.

On the seventh day of fighting in Marja, two dozen Marines were dropped into an area Taliban marksmen reportedly operate in.

Around 30 people were killed in a bomb blast outside a mosque near the Afghan-Pakistan border today.

Fighting has instensified today in Marja, Afghanistan on Day 6 of the joint NATO-Afghan military offensive against insurgents.

Two missionaries, Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, are being held for questioning for a 2009 trip to Haiti.

At the Westminster dog show, a Scottish terrier known as Sadie won "Best in Show" last night at Madison Square Garden in New York.

It's Day 5 of the joint NATO-Afghan offensive against militants in Marja, Afghanistan.

The carmaker hasn't figured out what's causing the problematic power-steering in Corollas yet.

Three years. That's how long Haiti's President Rene Preval is estimating it will take to clear the rubble after January's quake.

The U.S., Russia and France issued a joint statement today expressing concern over Iran's plan to enrich uranium to a higher degree.