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NASA recently lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Suzanne Dodd, project manager for the Voyager Interstellar mission, about what happened.

At a hearing miners asked regulators to crack down on silica dust which causes lung cancer. They want rules to require more air monitoring and contain specifics about citations and fines.

New drugs used for weight loss may also reduce risks of heart attacks. A pharmaceutical giant wants Medicare to cover the drugs, but a federal ban prevents Medicare from covering weight loss drugs.

Spain's victory over England came less than a year after a near-mutiny by its players last year. Its win made it the first European team to win the Women's World Cup since Germany in 2007.

The Sweet Corn Circus celebrates Bloomington-Normal's agricultural and circus roots. The weekend festival includes performances from Gamma Phi Circus, Cirquemania and Iron Spirit Pro Wrestling — and corn!

In spring 2001, Desma Brooks, Michelle Fischer and Debbie Helton signed up for the National Guard expecting just a few days of drills each month. Soldier Girls tells the stories of their deployments.

Anthony Horowitz's latest novel is a whodunit about whodunits. He says, "I wanted it to be ... a sort of a treatise on the whole genre of murder mystery writing."

An obscure bit of brain tissue appears critical to both out-of-body experiences and our sense of being anchored to a physical self.

Citizen Kane made Orson Welles a superstar. But his next movie, The Magnificent Ambersons, was edited into incoherence by the studio. Now, a Welles fan has used animation to recreate lost footage.

The list of retail bankruptcies and store closures is growing. It's being predicted that store closures will rise 25 percent this year. It would be easy to blame the faltering economy, but there's more to it than that.