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Raising the age of adult responsibility for crime is a heated issue in New York, which tries 16-year-olds as adults — and where nine in 10 youth held at Rikers' Island jail are black or Latino.

Here are your morning headlines for Friday, March 16: Report suggests link between health and wealth; Judge asks for state input before declaring...

Final arguments were given on Thursday in the murder trial of Jason Van Dyke, who shot teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014. The killing sparked weeks of unrest and resulted in political fallout.

Watch the Australian electro-pop gurus perform a standout track from their new album, Haiku from Zero.

The minimum salary for a major-league baseball salary is $500,000. In minor league baseball, many players toil well below the federal poverty line.…

Last week, Hollywood departed from its summer blockbuster lineup with "The Help" a film for grownups about a serious subject... the relationship of black…

Columbus-based shopping mall owner Glimcher is reporting the best quarter in company history. In the final quarter of 2011, Glimcher was finally able to…

The Army has dropped a murder charge, but added others, including steroid use, against a soldier accused in a deadly shooting rampage in Afghanistan.…

Sporadic battles continue in northern Iraq. In the Kurdish-controlled town of Sulamaniyah, many fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein move though the area disguised as civilians. NPR's Juan Williams talks to Michael Ware of Time magazine.

An agreement to fight global warming goes into effect Wednesday in much of the world. The Kyoto treaty was ratified by 140 nations, with some notable exceptions -- the United States and Australia did not sign the treaty. Signatories are legally committed to meeting emissions targets by 2012.