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Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee will question Attorney General nominee Eric Holder at his confirmation hearing Thursday. Holder has strong support in the Senate, but some Republicans on the panel say they will ask him about aspects of his private legal practice and some of his decisions while serving as deputy and acting attorney general under President Clinton.

NPR looks at grocery inflation and politics in Pittsburgh, a focus of both major presidential campaigns in their quest to woo voters in must-win Pennsylvania.

One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.

Three months after the war between Israel and Hamas ended, reconstruction has barely started. Many people still live in half-bombed houses. But there are a few bright spots and a bit of innovation.

"History is here. All the conditions are met. The decisive agreement for the planet is now," French President Francois Hollande said Saturday.

That's the good news. The bad news is that there are still 795 million people who don't get enough to eat — and enough nutrients in their food.

Every year, Fresh Air critic John Powers is haunted by all the terrific things he didn't get a chance to talk about on air. As 2016 winds down, he "un-haunts" himself with these six recommendations.

David Greene talks to Suzanne DiMaggio, senior fellow at the think tank New America, about where things stand for the U.S. following the landmark summit between North and South Korea.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote the op-ed to draw attention to the country's conflict and suffering. It was criticized on social media for its "shallow" reporting. What's his response?

North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea, in an apparent attempt to pressure the Biden administration over long-stalled nuclear negotiations.