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MLB:In baseball, in the American League, the Yankees blanked the White Sox 9-0, Texas bested Boston 7-2, Toronto won against Kansas City 8-3, Cleveland…

Yes, the U.S. does have the highest corporate tax rate ... but that doesn't mean businesses always pay it.

NCAA:The Final Four is set. Top seed Duke beat Gonzaga 66-52 to win the South Region and advance to the NCAA Final Four where they will see Michigan State…

NFL:On Monday Night Football, the Giants beat Cincinnati 21-20. The New York Giants are 6-3 after Eli Manning passed for 240 yards and three touchdowns in…

Less than 1 percent of applicants make the cut. But there's more than one way in. Passion helps. Be persistent. Oh, and be tops in what you're doing right now.

As we near another crucial election in November, many of our assumptions about the sturdiness of American democracy remain in question.

The Boston Red Sox lost to the Tampa Bay Rays and Yankees lose to Angels. Canada dethrones the U.S. Women's Hockey team in the world champions.

Mike Pierce serves as executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center and joins The Best of Our Knowledge to discuss the economic impact of student loans, what NPR reporting might mean for reforms of the loan system and why he first became interested in the topic.

A meteorite that struck the Earth more than 3 billion years ago might have acted like a giant “fertilizer bomb” for life on the Blue Planet.We’ll learn about a new national study that may lead to a new affordable treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.And officials are celebrating a new national hub for semiconductor research.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.We’ll speak with one of a handful of winners of this year’s Dan David Prize. Hamilton College professor Mackenzie Cooley received the world’s largest history prize for her study of “bioprospecting.”And we’ll speak with school administrators in New York about the state’s new ban on cell phones in schools.