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Guatemalans will head to the polls today, but some of the leading presidential candidate have been barred from running and voter apathy and mistrust reign.

The Party Has Started!!Friday night the Tremé Brass Band got a great party started in Salisbury, Maryland. But don’t just take my word for it. Festival…

After protracted negotiations between Major League Baseball's owners and players led to a 99-day lockout, baseball officially begins with new rules and new faces.

Microsoft stock rises, a day after the software giant said it would give some $75 billion in cash to shareholders over the next four years -- roughly $3 a share. Analysts say the company's decision to release some of its cash reserves shows that Microsoft is no longer a "growth" company, but has matured into a company that must pay dividends. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

As many as 300,000 young girls -- some as young as 11 -- are working as prostitutes in America. As NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports in Part Four of the series Girls and the Juvenile Justice System, officials in San Francisco are trying to help girls leave the streets by treating them as victims, not criminals. Listen to previous reports in the series.

Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker won a Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into police corruption in Philadelphia. They talk about their reporting and new book, Busted.

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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers about her new book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.

Jerry Lawson would have turned 82 on Dec. 1. Google is celebrating the late engineer with a Doodle on its homepage, made up of several interactive games that users can customize themselves.