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Dr. Donald L. Rasmussen worked on behalf of coal miners in Appalachia and helped create a national movement against black lung disease.

[caption id="attachment_1283" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg"][/caption] [AUDIO] As Independence Day…

International conservationists, desperate to save endangered species, have turned to technology in the hope it will make a difference before it's too...

The other day a twenty-something asked me 'What's a CD?' If I had told him about LP or even 45s he would have fainted dead away. The news that vinyl is…

Ohio Congressman Anthony Gonzalez will not run for reelection when his term ends next year. The 16th district representative made the announcement on Twitter Thursday night.

Congress is demanding answers from the Bush administration about published allegations that the National Security Agency is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. Lawmakers and privacy advocates say they're still not being told the full story about the domestic activities of the NSA.

The United Nations says Iran has ignored the Security Council's call to suspend all nuclear fuel enrichment. Instead, the U.N. says Iran has accelerated its program. Bush administration officials say it is now time for the Security Council to act against Iran.

China's President Hu Jintao visits with President Bush. The two presidents discussed a wide range of issues, but made no major announcements. Hu wraps up his trip to the U.S. with a visit to Yale University in Connecticut.

In a videoconference with U.S. troops in Tikrit, President Bush renews his vow to stay in Iraq as long as it takes for democracy take root there. The White House also continued its defense of Harriet Miers as the president's choice to serve on the Supreme Court.

As part of the series "The New Middle," All Things Considered is hearing from people across the U.S. about what it means to be middle class in America today.