Rushing Toward Chaos: Covering The Aftermath Of Typhoon Haiyan Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Rushing Toward Chaos: Covering The Aftermath Of Typhoon Haiyan NPR's Jason Beaubien and David Gilkey have covered calamities all over the globe. But the recent aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines was particularly daunting. Jason describes the extreme challenges they faced. Read this story 5 Achievements Of The 113th Congress (So Far) The 113th Congress has come to be defined more by what it failed to do than what it did. But the two warring parties controlling either end of Capitol Hill managed to accomplish a few things in 2013. Read this story On The Trail Of A Mountain Lion, Hunters Hope To Help Mountain lions are slowly making a comeback, but they live at constant risk of getting hit by cars or shot. In Santa Cruz, Calif., one project tracks how the lions live — and it's already helping to protect the big cats nationwide. Read this story Stretch Or Splat? How A Black Hole Kills You Matters ... A Lot Over the past year, a roaring debate has erupted among physicists about what exactly would happen if you fell into a black hole. Would it be "spaghettification," or a quantum firestorm and oblivion where space ceases to exist? The answer has big implications for fundamental physics. Read this story Judge Rules That NSA Collection Of Phone Data Is Lawful Rejecting a challenge by the ACLU to the program, U.S. District Judge William Pauley said Friday that the collection of data represented "a government counter-punch" against al-Qaida. The ruling comes less than two weeks after another judge said the program violated the Constitution. Read this story more news stories

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