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A new report emphasizes significant progress in cutting the number of deaths of children before age 5. But in some parts of the world, the rate is still depressingly high.

It depends. Just like the old question about a tree falling in the forest, there is an instrument which, even if you ARE there to hear it, you may not.…

Eric Parker, accused of using excessive force on the unarmed man, went on trial twice last year. Both trials ended in hung juries. The judge said federal prosecutors won't get a third chance.

This is the second installment in our exploration of the top composers of the 21st century.There was a period of time when uttering the words New Music…

The leader of the Ohio Senate says the “Heartbeat Bill,” which would ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, is one of his chamber’s priorities.…

NPR's Don Gonyea says looking through his old baseball scorecards stirs up sweet memories from summers long past.

The mine where three rescuers died trying to rescue six trapped miners will be closed, co-owner Bob Murray tells NPR. He also says that a sixth hole may be drilled in an attempt to find the trapped miners.

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

Goni is the most powerful storm so far this year. Evacuations were issued as the typhoon was set make landfall on the country's largest island.

State environmental regulators call chlorpyrifos "a toxic air contaminant" that is a health threat when inhaled or exposed to skin.