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In Washington, lawmakers are still wrangling over plans that would prevent a fiscal crisis in coming days and have put on hold further ne ...

[REBROADCAST] Americans make a lot of trash, more than any other country in the world. In fact, each of us produces arou ...

[REBROADCAST] Once upon a time, we told stories through oral tradition, moved on to words and pictures and fast-forwarde ...

[REBROADCAST] We’ll discuss Johann Sebastian Bach’s musical DNA from the 17th Century through today with ...

The closest star to the earth (not our Sun, of course) looks like it has FIVE planets, an exciting development that opens all sorts of ex ...

December 22, 2012 — Ready for some holiday greenery that’s really green? It’s time for our annual Christmas sp ...

In this week’s national news roundup, Marty chats with two Washington D.C.-based journalists about the big two topics dominating the na ...

[REBROADCAST] Today is December 21st, 2012. And the hype about the “end of the world” has reached a super ...

Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren talk with Patrick Stoner about the real Alfred Hitchcock and his wife in the film bearing his name. ...

This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity h ...

Tens of billions of dollars are lost each year to consumer fraud and when the economy is down, fraud goes up.  These last years have bee ...

Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at t ...