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Officials said the bomb appeared to be planted by Pakistani Taliban targeting pro-government militias.

A new study says sixth-graders do better when they attend K-8 schools, so they're not the youngest.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about the latest legal blow to the entertainment industry. A federal appeals court has ruled that makers of Internet file-sharing programs such as StreamCast are not legally liable for the songs or movies their users swap online.

The NBC television network plans to post clips from some of its fall shows on the video-sharing Web site YouTube.com -- a big step for YouTube.com and NBC, which previously attempted to block the site from posting clips of NBC shows. Madeleine Brand talks with Janet Babin of Marketplace about the win-win move for NBC and YouTube.com's "guerilla cred."

In order to get the tax advantages of a health savings account, the health plan it's linked to has to meet several certain criteria. Consumers with a health savings account may also be on the hook for the entire cost of medical care, except preventive care.

Minnesota spent millions on creating its health care website, and while the state's added 180,000 people to insurance coverage, some are asking whether it was worth it for the state to go it alone.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about a decision by Microsoft to require customers to verify they have a valid copy of an operating system before allowing them to download updates from its Web site. Officials for the software giant say the move will boost Internet security -- and it may prompt those using illegal copies of its popular Windows software to buy legitimate copies.

Most health plans accept a credit card for the first month's premium and then require customers to pay monthly with a check or an electronic transfer from a bank account. For people without a banking relationship, these transactions can be tricky.

It wasn't the best year for music, but 2008 sure churned out a lot of it: In a marketplace flooded with more music than ever, there's rarely been less of a consensus. Your neighbor's iPod was most likely playing a different tune than yours was. Still, David Dye was able to pinpoint the 10 albums that best kept him interested through multiple listens.

(Courtesy of Governor Mike Beebe's office.)The Arkansas Insurance Department is projecting that insurance policies sold through the Arkansas Health…