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Federal workplace safety authorities have fined a central Pennsylvania confectionary factory more than $14,500 following an accident last year in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate.

Your Christmas celebration is about to get funkier — and, it goes without saying, better.

NASA's Sonification Project is a collaborative effort to turn data collected from the outer reaches of the universe into sounds. Their album, Universal Harmonies, is out March 10.

Former New York State Education Commissioner and U.S. Education Secretary John King has been tapped to be the next SUNY chancellor.

Firefighters hope you hear sleigh bells jingling and not fire alarms ringing this holiday season.

Senate debate on the Iraq war began in earnest Tuesday as Democrats called for troop withdrawals. Democratic leaders introduced an amendment ordering withdrawals by April 30, 2008. Sen. John McCain, just back from Iraq, gave a floor speech saying precipitous withdrawal would be a disaster.

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

The last time the U.S. dollar sank to 100 yen was 1995. Melissa Block examines what else was going on at that time.

One listener objected to what he heard in the report about the 1947 partition of India.