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There were cheers and jeers when the court handed down two landmark rulings.

Barbara Bush, 88, is in a hospital in Houston with a respiratory-related issue, according to her husband's office.

After Sam was drafted by the Rams, he celebrated by kissing his boyfriend. Sam will become the first openly gay player in the NFL.

NPR's Arun Rath speaks with James Risen of the New York Times about a new report alleging that the American Psychological Association helped justify prisoner torture.

The U.S. State Department unveiled a tribute poem written by Dr. Maya Angelou for Mandela "on behalf of the American people."

The final event of the 2014 Leon Panetta Lecture Series covers How Presidents Make Decisions: Leadership, Crisis, Politics and Trust. The discussion…

It's OK, because 300 new words are being added to the Scrabble dictionary. Like OK, ew, yowza, twerk and bizjet.

Police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black men and women in the U.S. since 2015, according to an NPR investigation.

As eBay continues to rack up headlines as well as sales, the modern-day live auctioneer has turned to the internet in an effort to keep the profession up to date. Individual web pages, e-mail lists, proxy bids via e-mail, and digital photographs of auction items are ways that auctioneers are competing with the online auction services. And the future of auctioneering will take them even further from the well-loved traditions of the trade. Liane attends an auction in Vienna, Virginia, and speaks with Chris Rasmus of the Auction Marketing Institute.

The Congressional Budget Office announced last week the projected government surplus will grow to over $3 trillion in the next decade. Both Republicans and Democrats use the CBO estimates to bolster their calls for more spending or larger tax cuts. But at a time when the economy is stalled, what makes economists so certain about the country's financial future? Lisa talks to former Congressional Budget Office director Robert Reischaeur about how the CBO determines whether the federal government will be in the black or in the red a decade from now.