Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• New law gives homeowners more time to escape foreclosure
  Struggling homeowners now have another chance to save their homes from foreclosure.3:13 p.m.
• Franken in Washington, says he's ready to work
  Democrat Al Franken has arrived in Washington offering no jokes -- just a promise that he is "ready to get to work." Franken will be sworn in tomorrow as Minnesota's second U.S. senator.5:15 p.m.
• New law gives homeowners more time to escape foreclosure
  Struggling homeowners now have another chance to save their homes from foreclosure.5:19 p.m.
• More homeowners doing it themselves
  Strapped consumers are increasingly looking to save money by taking on home improvement and repair projects themselves.5:23 p.m.
• What could Palin's resignation mean for Pawlenty?
  Sarah Palin's announcement that she will resign as Alaska's governor touched off a weekend of speculation about her future. Tom Crann asked Washington University political scientist Steven Smith for his take on Palin and Pawlenty.5:51 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Slain N.C. National Guardsman Remembered
  Leevi Barnard, 28, died in a bomb explosion in a Baghdad market. Family described the North Carolina National Guardsmen as quiet with a dry sense of humor. He loved to play church softball and help his grandfather work in their vegetable garden.
• Al Franken Arrives On Capitol Hill
  Democrat Al Franken of Minnesota, who arrived Monday on Capitol Hill, is expected to be sworn in Tuesday as the 100th senator. Franken will become the 60th member of the Democratic caucus, the number Democrats need to shut down Republican filibusters.
• 'Fog Of War' Director Remembers McNamara
  Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who died Monday at age 93, offered an appraisal of the Vietnam War in the 2003 documentary The Fog of War. Director Errol Morris, who made the award-winning film, says the war was an ongoing investigation for McNamara.
• China Ethnic Unrest Kills 156
  The death toll in the violence between predominantly Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China is likely to increase, officials say. The clashes Sunday in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, underscored the deep hostility between the Uighurs and China's Han majority. The violence killed 156 people.
• Vietnam Legacy Haunted McNamara
  NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says Robert McNamara was a brilliant man who spent more than a third of his lifetime living down his stewardship of the Vietnam War. He says another generation may remember McNamara as a "consummate public servant," but for the generation that demonstrated outside the Pentagon, it is still too soon.
• In Iran, Bid To Start New Party May Be Doomed
  A pro-reform Iranian newspaper reported over the weekend that Mir Hossein Mousavi, the challenger in Iran's presidential election, plans to start a new political party. Ramin Mostaghim, a reporter in Tehran, says the idea may be doomed from the start because a spokesman for Iran's supreme leader has suggested that Mousavi is not authorized to lead a party.
• With Judge's Backing, GM Looks To Turn Corner
  A federal judge approved GM's bankruptcy plan, saying liquidation would be "disastrous" for everyone concerned. Now the "New GM" faces a formidable task: figuring out a way to make money in an economy that is just starting to heal.
• Farming On Facebook And Other Web Trends
  Omar Gallaga, technology culture reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, runs through some of the week's best tech stories. This week, he discusses farming on Facebook, the recent renaissance of Internet browsers and a hilarious online musical, Web Site Story.
• Obama, Medvedev Agree To Cut Nukes
  President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, laid out a plan to reduce the number of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. The "joint understanding" is intended to lead to a new strategic weapons treaty by the end of the year.
• Real People Fill In For Statue In Trafalgar Square
  In the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square, in the heart of London, there is a base, or plinth, for a statue that stands empty. Now, an artist is putting it to use for a project that involves 2,400 members of the general public each doing whatever they want atop the plinth for one hour.
• McNamara, Vietnam-Era Defense Secretary, Dies
  Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died Monday at the age of 93. The architect of the Vietnam War served during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Over the years, he came to regret the decisions that led to the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
• A Decade After Storm, Minnesota Wild Rejuvenates
  Ten years ago, a huge windstorm struck the remote Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota and killed 35 million trees. It took three weeks to get all the trapped campers out of the woods. Now, the forest is growing back and people are still flocking to the sprawling wilderness.
• Global Effort Puts Oldest Known Bible Online
  Pieces of the world's oldest known Bible have been put back together for the first time in 150 years — on the Internet. Scholars from Britain, Egypt, Germany and Russia have virtually reassembled the Codex Sinaiticus and made it available for free online.
• Summer Road Trip: Songs For Speed And Spirit
  Critic Tom Moon assembles a playlist for summertime driving that makes the miles whiz by, with some intense songs for staying alert during the day and chill-out tunes to renew the spirit in the evening, when you still have hours more to go.
• William Eggleston, In Full Color
  Remember that scene where Dorothy and Toto realize they're not in Kansas anymore? That same combined sensation of awe, homesickness and hallucination probably described the people in the crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, as they stood before William Eggleston's color photography exhibit for the first time.

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