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High Court To Reconsider Major Human Rights Ruling

by: Nina Totenberg

The U-S Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear reargument next term in a major human rights case, raising the specter that the justices might reverse a 2004 ruling that allowed some lawsuits i

Tough-Love Reading Laws Target Third-Graders

by: Tovia Smith

There's little dispute among educators that kids are not reading as well as they should be, but there's endless debate over what to do about it.

by: The Associated Press

General Motors will suspend production of its Chevrolet Volt electric car for five weeks amid disappointing sales.

by: Frank Morris

One clear threat once menaced civilization: nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

by: Liz Halloran

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a reporter Wednesday that he opposes a measure being considered by the Senate that would allow employers to decline to provide contraception cover

New Ways To Think About Online Privacy

by: Nina Gregory

As an editor who helps put Morning Edition on the air, I work overnight. There is something called sleep hygiene that some of us who work while you sleep have studied closely.

by: Eyder Peralta

During the last three months of the year, the U.S. economy picked up its pace of growth.

by: Eleanor Beardsley

At newsstands across France on Wednesday, readers will delight to a humorous broadsheet published every four years on leap day.

Almost one year ago, the Fukushima nuclear disaster nearly led to a global catastrophe, if not for the efforts of a small group of engineers, soldiers, and firemen, who risked their own lives in th

by: Eyder Peralta

With the latest polls showing a dead heat in Michigan, the leading Republican presidential can

Second Student In Ohio School Shooting Dies

by: Eyder Peralta

A second student has died as a result of injuries he received during yesterday's shooting rampage at a Chardon, Ohio school.

by: Radio Diaries

Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream.

by: Eliza Barclay

A New York federal court today dismissed a lawsuit against agribusiness giant Monsanto brought by thousands of certified organic farmers that they hoped would protect them against infringing on the

by: Jon Hamilton

When a nerve is injured, it's often hard to get it to regrow fast enough to restore function.

Study Suggests Way To Create New Eggs In Women

by: Rob Stein

For decades, scientists have thought that one of the big differences between men and women is that men can make children all their lives because men never stop making sperm.

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