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NPR's A Martinez talks to Jason Ambrosi, head of the the Air Line Pilots Association, about why the union is against a proposal to raise the mandatory retirement age for pilots.

Treasury officials say they've seen little fallout so far from the loss of the government's Triple-A bond rating. The Fitch rating agency downgraded government debt, citing a governance deterioration.

Commentator Barbara J. King says the book Farmageddon offers useful advice on how to take a stand against industrialized animal farming in the fight to forge a better future for our planet.

Kasich describes his presidential run and the state of political discourse in his memoir, Two Paths: America Divided or United. "We all need to live a life a little bigger than ourselves," he says.

Many of the people who lost money in the alleged fraud case involving Bernard Madoff were sophisticated and successful. It may be surprising to learn that those investors put billions of dollars into what is being labeled as one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history. The sums may be shocking, but the dynamics at work in the case are familiar.

The U.S. has accused China of manipulating its currency and undermining free trade. China, in turn, blames the U.S. for sparking the financial meltdown. But some economists say China's currency policy paved the way for the worldwide economic crisis.

Much of the U.S. continues to be gripped by extreme heat — especially Phoenix. That's where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day for two weeks now.

Turmoil in the stock market has people on edge, but Yale's investment guru, David Swensen, explains how his allocation strategy and rebalancing technique have earned consistent double-digit returns over the past two decades.

After a logistically complicated journey of over 36 hours, 14 juvenile giraffes have made it to their subspecies' native homeland in Iona National Park.

Erik Prince, the chairman of the private security company, Blackwater USA, has rejected allegations that his employees have acted inappropriately in Iraq and Afghanistan. The FBI is investigating Blackwater personnel for their role in a shooting two weeks ago that left 11 Iraqis dead.