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Japan's main index fell more than 6 percent. South Korea was down more than 3 percent. Hong Kong's main stock average fell nearly 5 percent, partly on grim economic news out of China. The drop in world markets follows a nearly 8 percent plunge in the Dow, after the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a report declaring that the U.S. officially is in recession.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WBEZ listener Corinna Christman of Chicago, Illinois, and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with VPM listener Kathleen Martin of Richmond, Va., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

A Ball State University economic forecast says the United States has fully recovered from the Great Recession and growth is coming. The annual prediction…

The story of a court case. On one side, the best lawyers money can buy. On the other, a night school lawyer who had never argued a case before. The outcome could affect everyone on the Internet.

Friday in Charleston, S.C., comedian Stephen Colbert and former GOP candidate Herman Cain joined forces at an event dubbed the "Rock Me Like a Herman Cain: South Cain-olina Primary Rally."

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets both in celebration and in protest of the country's new military rulers.

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings have won an Olympic three-peat in women's beach volleyball, as they defeated their fellow Americans, the team of Jennifer Kessy and April Ross, in the gold medal match.

Republican and Democratic leaders have agreed on a plan to fund the government for the first six months of fiscal 2013. Still left to debate: whether to extend the so-called Bush tax cuts and looming, deep automatic cuts in some spending.

The Very Best began when a Swedish producer made a trip to a London thrift shop and a met a Malawian singer. The group's new album makes the case that even amid poverty, warfare and the privations of ghetto life, happiness is possible.