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The British prime minister says a plan to outlaw "violent" porn and block certain search terms is designed to protect children. Will a crackdown result in less child abuse?

Of nearly 11,000 malpractice claims paid on behalf of doctors in 2009, some 43 percent were for errors in outpatient settings. Diagnostic errors were the most common problem leading to malpractice payments for outpatients.

The Affordable Care Act included a sales tax on medical devices that is supposed to help pay for the expansion of health insurance coverage. But the tax is being levied on some devices, such as ultrasound scanners, that are used to diagnose and treat animals instead of humans.

The Bob Baffert-trained horse won the second leg of the Triple Crown at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, while a string of recent horse deaths have clouded this year's races.

A right-wing YouTube personality filmed his encounter with the WNBA star and her Phoenix Mercury teammates at the Dallas airport on Saturday. The Mercury team said it was reviewing the incident.

Francesca Gino, a prominent behavioral science professor at Harvard Business School, has been accused of fabricating data in studies than span over a decade, and most recently in 2020.

The Biden-Harris Administration announced on June 20 it would spend over $3 million to fund projects that protect the Lake Tahoe Basin.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that while the election of Russia's new president, Dimitri Medvedev, has been described as more of a coronation, and Medvedev himself described as a puppet of outgoing president Vladimir Putin, there may be something more profound at work.

Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo, who own the Brooklyn restaurant Frankies Spuntino, have recipes for tomatoes from breakfast to dessert in their new cookbook, The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion and Cooking Manual. "We're all about easy, practical, utilitarian," says Castronovo.

Scientists have been watching with alarm as the world's glaciers and arctic regions are showing more and more signs of melting. They suspect that global climate change -- fueled by industrial and vehicle emissions -- are to blame. But as NPR's Eric Niiler reports, this arctic thaw is also revealing a trove of ancient artifacts from people who dropped them thousands of years ago.