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Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, The Rise of Yeast, points out, it leaves its mark on other foods, too, including coffee, and even chocolate.

Both firms say customers will have to be 21 to buy a gun. Both are also putting new curbs on ammunition purchases in response to the Parkland, Fla., high school shootings.

Students in Parkland, Fla., will walk the halls of their high school Wednesday, two weeks after many of them evacuated in single-file lines as police searched for the shooter that killed 17 people.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project continues to move forward with the approval of an air quality permit Tuesday for a compressor station in Northampton…

Audie Cornish of All Things Considered joins the panel as we return to one of our favorite recurring segments: the Regrettable Television Pop Quiz.

Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style firearms and won't sell guns to people under 21, the company's CEO said Wednesday. The company also issued a plea for "common sense gun reform."

Hear what today's songwriters with Celtic roots have to contribute to our understanding of current concerns.

Families have played a huge role in helping new immigrants succeed, argues UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura. Changing the rules would dramatically change the face of immigration.

The semi-automatic rifle has been in wide circulation for more than a half-century. In recent years, gunmen have used AR-15-style weapons to carry out many of the country's worst mass shootings.

Pitt County Schools is taking some of the credit for declining high school dropout rates. "Over the past several years, our school system has made it a…