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The president will announce in his State of the Union address that he's signing an executive order to lift the pay in new federal contracts. A top adviser tells NPR that Obama has "warmed up to" the idea of using executive orders to move his agenda ahead.

Neither the Seahawks nor the Broncos are among the top NFL teams when it comes to political contributions, but they're still plenty active.

Japan and Finland ranked at the top in most areas of the OECD study of 22 countries, while Italy and Spain consistently scored at the bottom.

They took over the country's top anti-crime agency on Wednesday, the fourth day of protests. But the relatively low number of demonstrators indicate they are unlikely to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government.

Hide the turkey and give someone else the shirt off your back — new American Thanksgiving traditions in the Spanish countryside.

A nationwide poll found that 45 percent of people thought the health of Americans had become worse during the past five years, and 40 percent thought it had stayed about the same. Only 13 percent thought it was better.

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With the nation's Hispanic population topping 50 million, media outlets are racing to court audiences from this key demographic. When the National Association of Hispanic Journalists meets today for its annual convention, chief among the agenda items will be the issue of reaching Hispanics through English and Spanish-language media. Guest host Allison Keyes discusses the current state of Hispanic media with Monica Lozano, a panelist at the convention and CEO of Impremedia, the country's largest Spanish-language newspaper company.

LOUISVILLE – Two Kentucky highway projects – reconstruction of U.S. 68/KY 80 through Land Between the Lakes and the first completed phase of the Newtown…

Calls for Rick Santorum to leave the Republican race only increased after he failed to win any of Tuesday's primaries. But if Santorum and his team were close to taking that advice, that didn't come across in an interview NPR's Audie Cornish, an All Things Considered co-host, conducted with John Brabender, a top adviser to the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.