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The U.S. Department of Education has unveiled a pilot program to provide loans for some of these alternative higher-ed programs.

Right now supermarket shelves are overflowing with apples. Host Guy Raz visits the kitchen of Top Chef Carla Hall to turn some of that autumn bounty into an Apple Cranberry Frangipane Tart.

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev indicated Moscow will not be changing its hard-line rhetoric toward a Barack Obama administration. He announced Wednesday a new missile base near the Polish border.

Federal and state officials have announced a coordinated crackdown on fraudulent foreclosure rescue schemes.

In his debut novel, Broadway Baby, Alan Shapiro examines the fictional life of Miriam Bluestein, a woman whose dream of a life on stage slowly unravels her family. Shapiro says the story is presented as a struggle with emotional and physical intimacy.

Twenty-five years ago Monday, the U.S. facilitated an agreement between Israel and Palestinians on a pathway toward peace. The deal fell apart not long after the Wye River Memorandum was signed.

Pakistani lawmakers may have overreached when they approved a measure that makes it a crime, punishable by jail time, to spray graffiti in the chaotic and often lawless city Karachi.

Because of past administrative failures, the some 78,000 affected public service workers such as nurses and teachers never got the relief they were entitled to under the law, Biden said.

Neurotechnology could help us monitor our health and wellness. But lawyer and AI ethicist Nita Farahany says that without safeguards, our private thoughts and emotions can be exploited for profit.

The singer-songwriter brings a handful of searing cuts from her sophomore album, GUTS, to the Tiny Desk.