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How to do a Wisconsin cheese festival Right? Have a cheesemonger — essentially a cheese expert — lead the way in introducing, pairing and eating cheese in America's dairyland.

In 2008, Chicago's mayor decided to lease out the city's metered parking system — to privatize all 36,000 of its parking meters.

The judge ordered the restoration of nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including money for rural health care and the identification of disabilities in children.

The House was poised Thursday to renew enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans that expired last year. But the push to renew the subsidies faces an uncertain path in the Senate.

Israel's Supreme Court has again pressed the government to explain why, more than two years into the war, it still bars independent journalists from entering Gaza.

What was it like to work with Toni Morrison as an editor? One NPR editor looked into it.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Larry Levitt of KFF about the state of the U.S. health system as we close out 2025 with no deal in Congress to extend Obamacare subsidies.

Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy to keep deadly pathogens from spreading through the colony.

European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years. The loan will not rely on frozen Russian assets.

Noting the decision not to mark the day, the State Department stated: "An awareness day is not a strategy." Activists in the fight to end the ongoing AIDS epidemic disagree.

The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.