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The last time the government stepped in and rescued banks to save the economy, the politics were toxic. That's why Biden is branding the latest banking aid as a lifeline for small businesses and jobs.

The last time the government stepped in and rescued banks to save the economy, the politics were toxic. That's why Biden is branding the latest banking aid as a lifeline for small businesses and jobs.

March Madness is fully underway. The opening of college basketball's tournament season brought exciting play and some upsets.

A near drought of upsets in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship has some people asking, where's the excitement? About the only surprises so far have been Duke's loss to Virginia Commonwealth University and Notre Dame's loss to and Winthrop.

President Obama made an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Tuesday as he returned from his European trip. It's Obama's first war-zone visit as president.

Writers can be inspired by their surroundings — but Indonesian volcanoes? Researchers say Mary Shelley's Frankenstein may have been inspired by an icy, dark summer caused by Mount Tambora's eruption.

Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix over the weekend, but in a larger sense the winners were the race organizers. They managed to hold the race which was canceled last year by political unrest, which was part of the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Bill Law, of the British Broadcasting Corporation, talks to Steve Inskeep about the weekend's events in Bahrain.

After "Robert Galbraith" was revealed to be the pen name for J.K. Rowling, many readers have been circling back to a "debut" novel they'd initially overlooked. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the mystery is respectable, but she will shelve it in the "I've read worse, but I've read better" category.

This is the fifth session Idaho Democrats have tried to pass legislation to expand access to birth control to a six-month supply under current insurance.

New Zealand musician Nadia Reid talks about how homesickness fueled the songs on her latest album, Out of My Province.