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World markets tumbled Tuesday as investors worried that Europe's debt crisis would spread despite a $143 billion bailout package for Greece. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 200 points while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell more than 2 percent.

The 2023 men's tournament is wide open: to find a recent champion in the Sweet 16 field, you have to go all the way back to 2014 winners UConn.

The lower premiums that come with bronze plans, plus Obamacare's caps on out-of-pocket spending, can make these plans the best deal for people who have very few medical expenses — or very many.

President Trump said he is appointing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be acting U.S. attorney in Washington DC. This is after the president pulled his controversial first pick for the job, Ed Martin.

Robert talks with Mark Johnson-Williams, one of the designers of the Tickle Me Elmo toy. Johnson-Williams tells how the FBI investigated him for 6 months as one of the UNABOMBER suspects.

The resourceful singer is unafraid to bring opera — and his high-flying top notes — to unlikely places, from sixth-grade classrooms to the offices of NPR.

Small ads in supermarket tabloids, comic books and magazines offered a chance at the big time in the music business. Thousands of would-be lyricists responded with their "song-poems" and their savings. NPR's Scott Simon reports on a new anthology of the results.

Laurie Granieri believes in the 40-hour work week. She loves being a newspaper reporter, but after watching her father become consumed by his job, she decided to start leaving the office at five o'clock to go enjoy the rest of her life.

Guns and alcohol: Those two subjects got the most response from listeners. They commented about the coverage of the Supreme Court's overturning of the Washington, D.C., handgun ban, and about the official New Orleans cocktail.

The University of Connecticut women's basketball team has dominated the court for two straight seasons. That prompts a question: Can a team's excellence turn fans away from the game? The answer depends on which league you're talking about.