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The president says he's pushing for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership in part to boost "Made in the U.S.A." products around the world. So why make the pitch at Nike?

The singer-songwriter turned her 2010 concept album into a folk-opera stage production and earlier this month, the show made its Broadway debut.

PEN America and two other free speech groups are calling for school officials in Florida to reinstate a high school production of Paula Vogel's "Indecent," a play that is itself about censorship.

The Obama administration's move to drop opposition to over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception is pleasing no one. It proposes making just one brand-name form available to all ages without a prescription.

The alternatives have a similar taste, packaging and marketing. Anti-smoking activists say this is a way to get around state and federal bans.

Russia reacted to Western economic sanctions by imposing a yearlong ban on U.S. and European food products. Moscow also made clear it's still considering other measures.

A lawsuit in Pakistan challenges how period products are taxed. But sometimes that approach has not actually lowered prices.

Hailing from the first free Black town in the Americas, Kombilesa Mí fuses the traditional sounds of Colombia with urban pop.

1:05 a.m. The State Board of Elections says it may order a recount of the Supreme Court race between Cheri Beasley and Mike Robinson. The margin between…

For over a half century, one film producer has tried to adapt Madeleine L'Engle's sci-fi classic into a movie. Enter Walt Disney Pictures, director Ava DuVernay and a budget exceeding $100 million.

Aloe Blacc sang two of the past year's most ubiquitous singles. So why haven't you heard of him?

This week's Heat Check selects come largely from iconoclasts who have already zeroed in on their individual aesthetics: a singsong rap soulman, an alté sensation a noise-rap radical and more.

Our guide to the greatest albums (Nos. 40-31) that emerged from a year's worth of cacophony.

We talk to sex columnist Dan Savage in San Francisco, then contestants play a round of This, That, or the Other featuring prescription drugs, Harry Potter spells, and Ikea products.

In this music parody, contestants guess which movie or TV show a fictional product or company is from.

SIMON/TEAMSTERS-BASEBALL: THE TEAMSTERS, WHO REPRESENT DRIVERS FOR MANY OF THE U.S. BEER DISTRIBUTORS THAT DELIVER PRODUCTS TO 23 OF THE 26 MAJOR LEAGUE STADIUMS IN THE UNITED STATES, HAVE DECIDED NOT TO CROSS ANY PICKET LINES ORGANIZED BY STRIKING BASEBALL PLAYERS. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TEAMSTERS UNION PRESIDENT RON CAREY.

At the Nuyorican (new-YOUR-ee-can) Poet's Cafe in anhattan, screenwriters of all calibers have the opportunity to test-drive heir material at a weekly small-scale production deemed the "Fifth Night." aren Michel visited the cafe and experienced the event firsthand.

Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports on the latest in dairy tech...the robotic milker. The automated system could boost milk production, as well as save a farmer's aching body from the demands of twice-a-day milkings.

This Sunday NBC will broadcast an all-star two-part adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels. Ted Danson has the title role and reviewer Ken Tucker says the production features outstanding special effects, is funny, and remains true to its satiric source.

Robert talks with Lionel Barber of The Financial Times about the European Unions decision to ban British beef. Barber says this decision to ban a product is not UNprecedented, in fact there have been other bans imposed by the E-U in recent years.