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America's birthrate continues to decline, and young people are having less sex, amid career pressures and a confusing online dating scene. The declining fertility rate raises alarms for the economy.

Writer Toni Morrison died Monday at age 88. We remember her in her own words.

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Venezuela, warning that anyone who deals with Nicolás Maduro's government could be punished too.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, about lone-wolf attacks in the age of online extremism.

A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania this week could mark a watershed moment for the Boy Scouts of America as well as hundreds of men who allege they suffered sexual abuse in childhood.

As tensions deepen, the flow of tourists, students, researchers and entrepreneurs has slowed between the U.S. and China.

Precision isn't the word most associated with the blues, but Romare Bearden's 1974 collage depicts Bessie Smith in a way that illuminates her expressiveness and her high level of artistic control.

David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael League are The Lighthouse Band, and together they harmonized the heck out of the Tiny Desk.

Brown, 31, was released from a Tennessee prison after serving 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man when she was a teenager. She was granted clemency in January.

Stocks slid early on, amid escalating fears that the U.S.-China trade war will further damage a worldwide economy that's already slowing. But the market recovered by day's end.