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How do you tell the good parenting advice from the bad? When producer Selena Simmons-Duffin's daughter was ready to start solid food, her parents encountered wildly conflicting advice about what to feed her.

Drowning In Parenting Advice? Here's Some Advice For That

In her new book, Cribsheet, economist Emily Oster offers a lifeline to parents overwhelmed by contradictory parenting guidance. She offers a data-driven, and common-sense, approach to raising a baby.

Pedestrians walk past a screen in Tokyo reporting about North Korea's test firing of a rocket system off the coast of North Korea on Wednesday.

North Korea Says It Tested New Rocket System For Use Against Ground Troops

Pyongyang said the new multiple rocket system would cause "inescapable distress" to enemy forces. The test on Wednesday was first thought to be of a short-range ballistic missile.

It looks like snow, but salt has leached to the surface of the flat stretch of exposed lakebed of Red Hill Bay on Feb. 25, 2019.

Salton Sea Management Effort Lags As Water Continues To Recede

California's largest lake is shrinking, and while the state has promised to manage the Salton Sea, those management efforts are lagging.

Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, "The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take."

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

In 2013, Snowden showed journalists thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance efforts. He's been living in Russia ever since. His new book is Permanent Record.

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

In 2013, Snowden showed journalists thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance efforts. He's been living in Russia ever since. His new book is Permanent Record.

In August, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president and CEO of the think tank New America, closed down a program that studied monopolies and how to fight them. The decision landed the think tank in the middle of the industry's latest money controversy.

Who Controls Think Tanks? Shift In Funding Highlights Changes In The Industry

Increasingly, wealthy business people are funding think tanks. As one political scientist notes, they tend to "want to know exactly what they're getting for their dollars' worth."

Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus perform onstage at the 2019 BET Awards.

Lil Nas X Lassos The Record For Longest-Running No. 1 Song In U.S. Chart History

The song's now-unparalleled success is, more than anything else, a pure expression of how the Internet is now everything. Welcome to the future, y'all.

Also: A fourth nor'easter strikes the East Coast; Illinois' primary election is complete; and wreckage of a World War II ship is found that may have carried the five Sullivan brothers.

Canada's Immigration Website Has Been Down For Hours

Search traffic for "Canada," "Canada immigration" and "move to Canada" increased on election night, according to Google Trends.

Shanghai pedicurist Ju-wen Zu and NPR's Aarti Shahani talk, aided by a translation app that may change the way we travel abroad forever.

Finding A Pedicure In China, Using Cutting-Edge Translation Apps

On a trip to China, NPR's Aarti Shahani took a detour in search of a pedicure, with help from some of the latest voice translation apps. These tools could radically change how you travel abroad.

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