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The former president is now fighting cancer. For the past 30 years, he has fought to wipe out diseases that plague millions of people. The efforts have brought one parasite to the edge of eradication.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kathryn VanArendonk, who teaches developmental reading and writing at Union County College, about how some schools are including contemporary books on summer lists.

The action comedy almost makes it through on the easy chemistry of Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, but it loses its way in a series of pointless, unmotivated shootouts.

One of New Orleans' signature traditions is the second line — the weekly brass band parades. But after Hurricane Katrina, a lot of people worried the tradition would become history.

The TV ads say rules involving retirement advice must be "fixed," but they may leave you scratching your head. Brokers and insurance agents are behind the ads, which aim to block tougher new rules.

The longtime head of France's anti-immigration National Front was expelled at the behest of his daughter, the party's current president, following remarks he made downplaying the Holocaust.

A growing body of research suggests that doctors' racial biases and other prejudices continue to affect the care patients received. Medical educators say self-awareness is an important first step.

A lot of American adults aren't sitting down to breakfast anymore — they're eating on the go. And what we eat in the morning is likely more important than when we eat it.

1st Lt. Shaye Haver and Capt. Kristen Griest endured the grueling course, meeting the same physical standards as their male counterparts.

For this week's +1 podcast, Bob Boilen and Katie Presley talk to musician Kathleen Hanna, whose riot grrrl band Bikini Kill is reissuing its influential 1991 demo.