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Legislators have rolled back a series of major tax cuts that became an example for conservative lawmakers around the country but didn't deliver the growth promised by Gov. Sam Brownback.

Giving infants peanut puree as one of their first solid foods can help prevent peanut allergies, research has shown. To do that safely, start early — and only after checking with your doctor.

A recent study gives thumbs up to the World Health Organization's 6-step plan. The problem is that lots of people — including health workers — fail to scrub.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jim O'Grady from WNYC about the latest out of Manhattan, where at least 6 people have been killed and 15 injured when a driver mowed down a bike path.

Who owns the moon? Space travel is getting easier and cheaper and now companies and NASA are trying to establish a market for things from outer space.

Citing cases in New York, Illinois and elsewhere, Apple says it has received — and resisted — federal orders to access data on iPhones and an iPad in recent months.

Thousands of people are believed to died in Pakistan after a 7.6 earthquake hit the country Saturday. The quake also killed hundreds in neighboring India. Steve Inskeep talks to Alex Perry, Time magazine bureau chief in Kashmir, about rescue and recovery efforts.

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann talks about this weekend's historic parliamentary and provincial elections. Despite the killing of six candidates and incidents of intimidation preparations for the election have been largely successful.

A year after tornadoes roared across Tennessee, killing 25 people and destroying over 1,6oo buildings, the rebuilding continues — and the toll of the storms weigh heavily on those still recovering.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it's expanding a pandemic program into the summer to help families pay for meals their children won't get in school.