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Congressional Corner with Ross Baker - Part 1

With the election in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look ahead to the incoming class. In today’s Congressional Corner, Rutgers University political…

Congressional Corner with Ross Baker - Part 2

Already a national figure, New Jersey governor Chris Christie emerged from Sandy and the election as a 2016 contender. In today’s Congressional Corner,…

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burned on April 21, 2010.

EPA Temporarily Halts New Federal Contracts For BP

The federal agency cited BP's "lack of business integrity" in dealing with the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The London-based oil giant agreed to plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the case and also agreed to pay a record $4 billion in penalties.

Developers Look To Revive Holyoke Casino Project

The mayor of Holyoke Massachusetts earlier this week, shockingly, opened the door to a casino development in his city. Now a plan to build a resort casino…

Students Blake Jamar (from left), Ryan Clifton and Gregory Gonzales take apart a bicycle that generates electricity at Analy High School in Sebastopol, Calif.

What's The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out

The Pentagon's research agency, DARPA, played key roles in developing the Internet and GPS. Now it's investing money in high school hackerspaces, where students gather to come up with high-tech ideas — like a bicycle that generates electricity.

Vermont Prison Inmates Helping Rehab Potatoes

Some Vermont prison inmates are helping some needy families get more to eat on Thanksgiving by packaging potatoes at the Windsor prison.Inmates at the…

The diversity of coconut trees like these planted along the beach in the northern Philippines is in danger, but a French scientist has a plan.

Coconut Conservationist Seeks Pacific Islands For Fun And Palm Preservation

Are the sources for your trendy coconut water and oil in danger? Not yet, says a French scientist, but he has an elaborate vision for how to overcome the coconut's biological challenges and ensure that the plant's dozens of varieties stick around for a long time.

Grace Coddington, shown above in 1974, is now the creative director at <em>Vogue</em>, but she started her career as a model. "In those days, models had to know how to do everything themselves," she says.

A Model Career: 'Grace' Goes From Runway To 'Vogue'

In a new memoir, Grace Coddington explains how she grew up on a remote island off the coast of Wales, started modeling as a young woman and ended up as creative director at Vogue magazine. Coddington speaks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about her life in the fashion industry.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the "Rocknest" site to give researchers a better opportunity to examine the particle-size distribution of the material forming the ripple. The rover's right Navigation camera took this image of the scuff mark on the mission's 57th Martian day.

So What Did The Mars Rover Find On Mars? You Tell Us

One scientist said it has found something "earthshaking" but wouldn't say what. We're asking you guess.

Administration Lays Down Rules For Future Health Insurance

Now that the Supreme Court has found the Affordable Care Act constitutional and the president's re-election made clear that big chunks of the law will take effect in 2014, the administration is finally releasing rules of the road that states and insurance companies have been clamoring for.

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