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Safety experts said the decline might, in part, have to do with Americans driving fewer miles and greater use of seat belts.

Host Michel Martin discusses April's jobs report with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., head of the Congressional Black Caucus, and NPR's Business Editor Marilyn Geewax. Just 115,000 jobs were created, fewer than most economists expected, but the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent.

In an audacious move, the Copenhagen Philharmonic performs Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt on a moving, crowded metro train.

Protesters and police collided in Moscow as Vladimir Putin again took the oath of office as president of Russia for his third term. Former ambassador Stephen Sestanovich from the Council on Foreign Relations talks about whether the "new" Putin will be different from the Putin of his first two terms.

The CIA said no airliners were ever in danger and it was planned for the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.

Get to know this upbeat indie-pop quartet with a flair for the intimate.

Mitt Romney, who appears well on his way to becoming the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, got a taste of the risk of handing voters the microphone at a Monday campaign event in a Euclid, OH manufacturing company.

Discovered on a soccer-themed Colombian soap opera, Orianica Velasquez is training for a bigger stage: the London Olympics. The native of Bogota is a ball hawk on the Indiana University team. As her coach puts it, "She's a good forward because she's greedy."

It's known as the quiet period — the SEC-mandated time before an initial public offering when a company's top officials have to avoid anything close to hype. And with Facebook's IPO expected next week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues are pretty much staying mum.

The arguments for growth policies as opposed to austerity are taking center stage in Europe after the French and Greek elections. French President-elect Francois Hollande was voted in to a large extent because of his pro-growth, anti-austerity rhetoric, but he is not rejecting austerity altogether.