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The venerable New York investment firm Goldman Sachs has a long track record for producing political bigwigs. Treasury Secretary-nominee Henry M. Paulson Jr. has served as both chairman and CEO since 1999. The company boasts a return on equity of upwards of 40 percent.

Accepting the Republican nomination for a second term, President Bush outlines proposals addressing education, health care and other domestic issues, while attacking Sen. John Kerry. But the post-Sept. 11 world and war on terrorism dominate Bush's speech. Hear NPR's Mara Liasson.

The teams the experts most expected to advance survive three rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It's rare for four No. 1 seeds to be alive so deep into the tournament. But Florida, Kansas, Ohio State and North Carolina play on.

Obama's supporter and former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle was nominated to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and director of the new White House Office of Health Reform.

An estimated five billion (yes, that's billion!) bananas a year come through the port.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has reinstated Pakistan's top judge, ruling that his suspension by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the nation's president and military ruler, was "illegal." Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's March suspension sparked protests by lawyers and opposition parties.

It’s one of Vicky Benzing’s favorite sounds in the world. It’s the sound of her Stearman biplane warming up a she prepares to do some aerial acrobatics.…

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

That makes Beyonce' the first Black woman with a No. 1 country song. She and Taylor Swift are the only two women who — as solo acts — have debuted on the country chart at No. 1.

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88.