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The administration is turning to semiconductors in the hopes of expanding affordable child care.

Audie Cornish speaks with Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward, director of the U.S. Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. She's developing training and other programs to help stop sexual assault in the Air Force.

Across the country, restaurants are under pressure to get rid of trans fats. But finding a healthier cooking oil that also holds up to extended use won't be easy. The search begins in the soybean fields of the Midwest.

Longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen's party was assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression any real opposition.

In their new book On Minimalism, musicologists William Robin and Kerry O'Brien capture the lesser-known stories of the musical movement and its development, era by era.

DNA exonerated six people who had been convicted of killing an elderly woman in Nebraska in the 1980s. But several of the exonerees confessed to the crime and still recall details of the scene. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker about her reporting on why the so-called Beatrice Six created false memories around the crime.

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, joins U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker for long-awaited testimony before Congress. Petraeus, in particular, pointed to progress he associated with a so-called troop surge.

When Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley challenged the state's 5.6 million residents to reduce their home electricity consumption by 15 percent, NPR's Richard Harris looked at ways his household could better conserve.

"I've been an artist since I was a child," says James "Yaya" Hough. After serving 27 years in prison, he is now the first-ever artist in residence at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Winnie-the-Pooh: The Deforested Edition is a word-for-word republishing of A.A. Milne's classic, with one big change: all of the trees are gone. Now that Pooh is public domain, it's a free-for-all.