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State economic analysts report that Arizona’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate slipped to 4.8 percent in October, down from 4.9 percent in September,…

A college student gives a commercially extinct cheese from Armenia a shot at new life, and tourists in a remote mountainous region of the tiny country get a taste of something unique and regional.

Sheriff's deputies discovered the carnage after a tense standoff and exchange of gunfire with a man holed up in a Houston-area home.

President Bush's upcoming meeting with leading industrial nations is marked by the contentious issue of global warming. He is proposing the U.S. and other nations set a long-term goal for lowering greenhouse gases. But European leaders want a commitment that emissions of heat-trapping gases be cut in half over 40 years.

Rachel Martin talks to investigative journalist Finlay Young about his stories in ProPublica and Time magazine, on reports of child sex abuse and mismanagement at the More Than Me charity in Liberia.

During his nine-year Hall of Fame career with the Cleveland Browns, Jim Brown averaged more than a hundred yards rushing in every regular season game. He's the only player in NFL history to do that.

Food writer and editor Ruth Reichl's new book, "The Paris Novel," is a coming-of age story full of the author's favorite things: Art, fashion, literature, 1980s Paris, and - of course - oysters.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He'd pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.

Sassoon first earned acclaim for creating hair cuts that needed little styling.

Tenor Limmie Pulliam just made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 47. He tells NPR's Scott Simon what pushed him away from singing and what twist of fate brought him back to the stage.