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As the drought continues to afflict the nation's corn belt, hog and chicken farmers are competing with ethanol factories for scarce and increasingly expensive corn. Meat producers say it's not a fair competition, because government rules call for a minimum level of ethanol production, no matter what the cost. They're campaigning for a suspension of those rules.

The decline was a surprise. Economists say the Labor Department has been having difficulty applying "seasonal adjustments" to the figures because of changes in the timing of annual shutdowns at auto plants.

In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss the voice of instruments, hearing Manuel de Falla’s El Pano…

The comments are surprising because the two countries haven't had diplomatic ties for five decades.

The author's What Happened to Sophie Wilder features a convert to Catholicism and another character who struggles to understand her faith. Beha talks about his Catholic upbringing, irony's place in fiction and literature's therapeutic aspects.

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Laura Bix of Michigan State University explains efforts to increase the visibility of warning labels on medication.Laura…

On this edition of Vox Pop, we welcome renowned astronomer Bob Berman to the studio to field all of your Astronomy-related questions.One of the best-known…

A number of events got started even before the official opening, including men's and women's soccer. Already, the US women's team has claimed its first win. NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman reports from London with a look at what to watch for at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Nearly two dozen preliminary applications have been filled for new charter schools in Massachusetts. WAMC”s Paul Tuthill reports. The Massachusetts…

A Northampton Massachusetts man whose confession was tossed out by the state’s highest court was arraigned Thursday on new charges including arson and…