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Grief is idiosyncratic. Some parents are turning to professional photographers to immortalize their terminally ill child, but what soothes one parent may disturb the other.

Citing 6 months of strong job gains, President Obama says America's recovery from a debilitating recession is well underway. But he says the economy "could be doing even better" if Congress helped.

After consistent improvements in 2013, employment growth has downshifted over the past two months. Economists fear that could be pointing to slower growth in 2014.

After decades of growth, some railroads are cutting staff because some of the most lucrative businesses for railroads — shipping commodities such as coal, crude oil and ore — have fallen off steeply.

NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman talk women's soccer and men's basketball.

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Big Screen, Little Guy; Have A Coke and A Lie; If The Bamboo Is Rockin'.

Words describing the same event can mean very different things. It's no surprise that people can't agree on a label for what's happening in Baltimore.

The cause of Wall Street's flash crash has been debated ever since it happened. Officials arrested a lone trader working in his parents' London home, but some question whether he was really to blame.

A stretch of the old Berlin Wall has stood for decades as an open-air gallery, covered in fine art and graffiti. Bids for luxury developments in the area have artists hitting the streets in protest.

The two men are from Eritrea. They're rising (and climbing) stars. And they're changing the image of the bike in Africa, where it's often looked down on as a poor person's transportation.