50 Years Later, Birmingham Is Still Subtly Divided Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News 50 Years Later, Birmingham Is Still Subtly Divided Fifty years ago today, Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. NPR closes out it's Summer of '63 series with a look at the legacy of race relations it left in the Alabama city. Read this story How 'J-Lho' May Keep Democrats Out Of New York Mayor's Office Republican Joe Lhota wants to be the next mayor of New York. He faces long odds — Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-to-1 in the city. But New Yorkers haven't elected a Democrat mayor in more than two decades. And with the general election just seven weeks away, Democrats facing a potential runoff don't yet have a nominee. Read this story Remote Antarctic Trek Reveals A Glacier Melting From Below After several years planning the difficult mission, scientists successfully drilled through Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. They were stunned by what they found, and worry global sea levels could be at risk. Read this story Cold War Flashback? Vienna Villa Alleged To Be NSA Post Austrian news reports say a stately villa in Vienna serves as a sophisticated listening post that spies on the city's residents. But the U.S. and Austrian governments say the facility is merely for gathering open source information. Read this story The Voice Of Rocky And Natasha Earns An Emmy June Foray, who created Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha the from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and many other characters, receives the Governor's Award at the Emmys tonight. Read this story more news stories

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