Legal activist Chen Guangcheng has reportedly finished submitting applications to Chinese authorities and has been told that he and his immediate family could be issued passports within the next two weeks.
That would then allow him to come to the United States.
The word on Monday that JPMorgan Chase's losses from risky trades that went wrong could climb from $2 billion to perhaps as high as $4 billion in coming quarters is being bolstered this morning.
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that Skechers will pay more than $40 million to settle charges that the company made unfounded claims about its shape-up shoes. The FTC says the marketing was deceptive.
The Baltimore legend is known for his pencil-thin mustache, and for movies like Hairspray. He's said in interviews he enjoys hitchhiking. Recently, the band Here We Go Magic tweeted photos of him in their van.
An Oklahoma teacher asked her fifth graders to each bring in a rock. One student brought in a stone that looked like a tooth. It turns out it was a tooth, according to the Muskogee Daily Phoenix. The tooth may up to 40 million years old.
Israeli soldiers stand in front of Palestinian and foreign activists during a demonstration on the 64th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, at the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus, West Bank, on Tuesday.
A masked Palestinian hurls a stone at Israeli troops during clashes outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, amid nakba demonstrations.
This week, Palestinian prisoners ended a mass hunger strike aimed at improving their conditions in Israeli prisons after reaching a deal with Israeli authorities. The success of the collective action in wresting concessions from Israel has some Palestinians calling for a greater emphasis on nonviolence in their opposition to Israeli policies.
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"Bustin' Loose," released in 1978, was Brown's biggest hit. The song, which contains elements of funk and disco, helped establish Brown's syncopated go-go style and reached number one on the Billboad R&B CHART in 1979.
"I wanted my own sound," Brown said. While the rest of the country was discovering hip-hop, Brown was helping to make go-go THE official sound of Washington, D.C.
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"Go-go is not hard to play," Brown told the National Visionary Leadership Project's oral history archive in 2009. "If you got rhythm and you got the feel and the desire to play this music, you don't have to have a lot of experience."
Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Christopher de Bellaigue about his book Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.
