© 2026 WGCU News
PBS and NPR for Southwest Florida
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Search results for

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin is attending the last day of the NATO summit in Bucharest. Russia — and its tense relationship with the West — has loomed over the meeting. Putin is against allowing former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia onto NATO's membership track.
  • Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee Friday the White House could have avoided a lot of criticism and loss of faith by being more open about its reasons for invading Iraq.
  • A political suspense thriller is unfolding in Kenya. No fewer than nine candidates are running for president, but from nearly every angle, it is a two-man race between Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki.
  • Many speculated that Americans would be wearied by a two-year presidential campaign. But so far, the country remains hooked on the races — and so are TV news channels.
  • Exit polls are showing Lee Myung-bak, a conservative former mayor of Seoul, winning South Korea's presidential election. Voters overlooked fraud allegations in hope that the former Hyundai CEO will revive the economy. Lee, of the Grand National Party, received 50.3 percent of the vote.
  • The race is crucial for Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In last-minute campaigning, Clinton struggled to avoid a highly damaging second straight defeat in the Democratic presidential race. Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney fought hard for victory in New Hampshire, where neither could afford to lose.
  • On Monday, federal agents reportedly searched the home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), just outside Anchorage. The subject of the probe is a 2000 renovation job that was overseen by an executive from a prominent local oil services company.
  • With farmers caught shorthanded and with crops not ready for harvesting, a pair of winter storms at the beginning and end of January potentially inflicted more than $3.17 billion in losses to the state’s agricultural industry.
  • U.S. freestyle skiers clinch an eleventh gold medal for Team USA in mixed team aerials,surpassing the U.S.'s all-time record for gold medals in a Winter Olympics.
  • The Florida Department of Health dashboard reports 66 measles cases in Collier County and one in Lee County from the beginning of the year until Feb. 14, which is the latest data they are making public. Statewide that number for the same period is 92.
2,123 of 4,430