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  • China Eyes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bailout
    The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is making waves far off American shores. China is watching the events closely because some 10 percent of China's gross domestic product is invested with the troubled mortgage giants. NPR's Adam Davidson talks with host Jacki Lyden about China's stake in the U.S. mortgage industry.
  • Why The Nation's Rental Market Is Exploding
    More Americans are renting, rather than buying their home. David Greene talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.
  • Bill Gates, co-founder of the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, checks out a toilet demo at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, Wash. The festival featured prototypes of high-tech toilets developed by researchers around the world.
    Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Sanitation Fair
    During a festival this week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, scientists from around the world showcased the latest toilet technologies. Bill Gates himself awarded top-performing commodes, including a solar-powered toilet and one that dehydrates waste within 24 hours.
  • U.S. and Mexican flags decorate an auto shop in Santa Ana, Calif., June 2011.
    Liberal Group Excitedly Eyes Millions Of Potential Latino Voters
    The liberal Center for American Progress put some numbers on the potential power of the untapped Latino vote. The think tank found significant numbers of unregistered U.S. citizens of Latino background in many states, a pool that expanded greatly when they added the number of permanent Latino residents eligible for citizenship before Election Day.
  • Appreciating the many onscreen moods of Val Kilmer
    More than a hundred roles in a nearly four-decade career let Val Kilmer explore a wealth of human experience.
  • North Korea Nuclear Talks Break Down over Money
    The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program have broken down in China, and Pyongyang's negotiator has left Beijing. The impasse revolves around North Korean funds frozen in a bank in Macau. The country refuses to talk until the account is released.
  • Lylliette Ramirez gets a COVID-19 test done by a healthcare worker in January in North Miami, Florida.
    The more contagious BA.2 version of omicron is now the most common in the U.S.
    The BA.2 strain now accounts for more than half of all coronavirus infections nationwide, the CDC estimates. Although it's fueling a surge in Europe, the variant doesn't appear to make people sicker.
  • Destroyed cars are seen outside the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine after a missile strike Friday that killed at least 52 people.
    Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 9)
    A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
  • Pan Pan sniffs a birthday cake made of ice for his 30th birthday, at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Dujiangyan, on Sept. 21, 2015.
    'Panda Grandpa' Pan Pan Dies In China
    Pan Pan, who died this week at the age of 31, was known as the "panda grandpa": He has some 130 descendants worldwide, accounting for a quarter of the world's captive giant pandas.
  • But is it GDP?
    Lady Gaga Writing A New Song Is Like A Factory Investing In A New Machine
    The government is about to change the way it accounts for the economic value of music and movies.
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