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For Russian residents on the country's Pacific Coast, the capital of Moscow and the major cities thousands of miles away can feel less important than the dynamic Asian cities nearby.

A New York law firm committed a stunning series of mistakes that led to a death row inmate missing his ability to appeal. There is no doubt that he committed the crime; the doubt is whether he could have avoided the death penalty. Now, the Supreme Court has given him another chance to fight his execution.

Top earners are usually paid when they stay home sick, but low-income workers are not. That has triggered a debate about fairness and risks to public health when incentives force sick people to work.

With these ice cream desserts, it's the construction, not the cooking, that counts. They're a teensy bit fancy, but not too dressed up for a picnic or a barbecue.

The FDA's decision to approve a new painkiller has met with fierce opposition. Judy Foreman, author of A Nation in Pain, tells NPR's Scott Simon why pain relief is such a highly polarized subject.

The television recap site Television Without Pity is being shuttered on Friday. One longtime TWoP writer looks back.

The deadline for H-1B Visa applications is April 1. In the week after that deadline, a lottery system will determine which high-skilled workers are able to stay and work in the US. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Bhavik Bhatt, who has already struck out once before in the lottery, but is taking his chances again.

In 1988, Ajami spoke with Terry Gross about an essay he'd written about how political catastrophe came to Beruit, Lebanon, and how the city where he grew up became a land of cruelty and hatred.

When "Benjamin," the world's last captive Tasmanian Tiger, died in 1936, a 23-million-year run of marsupial (pouch-bearing), doglike animals very likely disappeared from the planet. But before Benjy went, he had his revenge on the humans who hunted his kind to extinction.

One of three women kidnapped and repeatedly raped for a decade before their escape, told her abductor today that her years in hell are over, while his are just beginning.