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The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. confirm their deal creates a GM-funded, UAW-run trust fund to administer retiree health care, but the two sides gave few details. The agreement ending a two-day strike also includes commitments by GM to keep some manufacturing jobs in the United States.

When people ask me, "What was it like to grow up on Long Island?" I give them a copy of Alice McDermott's novel That Night. "Read this," I say.

East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, is hospitalized after being shot in the stomach at his home during a coup attempt. The nation's prime minister escaped injury in an attack on his motorcade.

NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses what Barack Obama's win in Iowa means on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announces the formation of a new alliance of Shiite and Kurdish parties in an effort to break Baghdad's political impasse. But no Sunni leaders are involved, and key Shiite groups are also not participating.

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales steps down after months of controversy surrounding the firing of federal prosecutors.

Oil prices are soaring to levels never anticipated – nearly $100 a barrel. The price of oil affects just about everything that is made, transported, eaten and sold in the United States. But the cost hasn't had the impact on the economy many analysts expected.

In a speech at the Coast Guard Academy this morning, President Bush unveiled new information about al-Qaida plans for attacks on the U.S. and other targets outside Iraq.

On this week's StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, Richard Hoy speaks to his daughter, Angel, about being a Chinese-American medic in the U.S Army.

Commentator and cookbook author Nancy Baggett says it's really not so hard to make marshmallows from scratch. More moist, more tender, and more flavorful than store-bought marshmallows, your S'mores, hot chocolate and Heavenly Hash will never be the same again.