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Host Rachel Martin speaks with Yale professor Robert Shiller about the challenges facing would-be, first-time home buyers, including stringent mortgage loan standards and record levels of student loan debt. Shiller's home price indices, developed originally with Karl Case, are now published as the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller Home Price Index.

Puerto Ricans are American citizens who do not vote in U.S. presidential general elections, but they do participate in Republican and Democratic nominating contests. Sunday, Puerto Rico holds a GOP primary. Both Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney visited the island this week. From San Juan, NPR's David Welna reports.

What if foxes could be trained and domesticated, much the way dogs were domesticated thousands of years ago? A nearly 50-year experiment in Russia is aiming at just that.

After a soap opera featuring divorce, debt and a team held in the balance, the Los Angeles Dodgers will have a new owner by the end of April. But the team and its fans are ready to focus on the field.

When 85-year-old Betty Werther was young, she traveled the world. Sixty years later, she got a call. It was from a young Portuguese medical student and he had found something that belonged to her. What he brought, however, was more than a souvenir.

In 2008, Barack Obama's secret weapon during the presidential primary was a master strategy from his head delegate coordinator. They used math — not conventional wisdom — to win enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Now, the GOP is playing the same game to serve one candidate the 1,144 delegates needed to become the presidential nominee.

There has been a rise in popularity in Greece of extreme leftist and ultra-right parties who are strongly opposed to the painful austerity measures that have been imposed as part of the international bailout.

On its highly danceable debut, the Brooklyn duo reasons that growing older often means accepting a certain level of uncertainty.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the alleged shooter in last week's attacks on Afghan civilians, has been transferred to a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A complicated picture of his life — in the Army and back home near Tacoma, Wash. — is still emerging.

George Zimmerman claims he was out on Neighborhood Watch patrol, saw a suspicious youth and followed the boy. Trayvon's family and supporters want to know if the unarmed teen, who was black, was gunned down in a tragic case of racial profiling.