Corporation for Public Broadcasting

In its attempt to turn the tables on Mitt Romney following the Republican presidential nominee's big win in the first presidential debate, President Obama's campaign has sought to enlist Big Bird. The president has repeatedly reminded supporters at...

SOUTH BEND -- WVPE is not the only local public media station that would be affected by cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to President and General Manager Mary Pruess, PBS member station WNIT Television receives about one-...

The recent controversy surrounding National Public Radio, in which a conservative operative caught top executives disparaging conservative groups and offering to protect a controversial donor, could not have come at a worse time for WVPE. The local...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The stars of Sesame Street — the real people — are on Capitol Hill helping unions and activist groups protest proposed federal spending cuts to public broadcasting. Emilio Delgado (Luis), Roscoe Orman (Gordon) and Bob...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are preparing another strike against public broadcasting with legislation to bar federal funding of National Public Radio and prohibit local public stations from using federal money to pay NPR dues. The House...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NPR's interim president and CEO said Thursday that she had full confidence in the organization's leadership team and said those who think NPR's news coverage is biased would change their minds simply by listening to its...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NPR's interim president and CEO says people who think the organization is biased only need to listen to its programming to change their minds. Joyce Slocum took over Wednesday for Vivian Schiller, who resigned to limit the damage...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday under pressure, a day after an undercover video showed one of her executives on a hidden camera calling the tea party racist and saying the news organization would be...

If you’re waiting…and waiting…for an interview appointment to complete your application for the Global Entry fast-pass-through-customs program, help may be at hand. In a blog post Monday, I  explained that I had been conditionally...

Sitting across from his son Peter in a warmly lit booth at the Chicago Cultural Center earlier this month, Chester Konopacki gave slow, careful answers about his childhood on his family's farm in Eastern Poland. He recalled he was tending horses one night...

It is the Oscar celebration for the culinary world. Known as the Friends of James Beard Benefit Dinner, an annual tribute to the culinary arts named for the late famous American chef was presented May 1 in Costa Mesa at the incomparable AnQi by...

On Tuesday night, if you tune into PBS' one-hour special "TED Talks Education," you'll see host John Legend and an array of prominent speakers, including Bill Gates, giving impassioned talks about ways to reinvent education. You'll also see Chicago's...