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Ben Hage has been named director of The Petrick Idea Center at Illinois Wesleyan University, effective June 1.

Oliver Stone's movie World Trade Center feels like an attempt to craft a feel-good movie out of a ghastly situation. That makes the film unconvincing. Reviewed by Kenneth Turan.

An Iranian-American academic held by Iran since May on security charges is now free on bail. The release of Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, comes after nearly four months in a Tehran prison.

The city of Grand Forks, North Dakota has literally been inundated in the flooding that has paralyzed the northern plains. Ray talks with evacuee Lynn Wooten and Red Cross worker Tim Manatt from a rescue center at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Wooten says her boyfriend didn't want to leave their apartment until the very last minute. Manatt says several of the kids at the resuce center built a little bowling alley to ease the boredom.

In a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, Kindercare, the country's largest day-care chain has agreed to accept toddlers who are diabetic. The settlement grew out of a lawsuit against a Columbus, Ohio center that refused to accept a child whose blood sugar required monitoring, The Ohio center said it could not perform the "medical procedure." NPR's Joe Palca looks at what the ramifications of the settlement are.

NPR's John Burnett rejoins Steve Inskeep from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, where NASA missions are directed and its people are considered to be friends and family. The front gate of the space center there has become a place to gather and mourn, as Ground Zero did after Sept. 11.

NPR's Religion Correspondent Duncan Moon reports on African-American churches around the country that are consolidating into large "mega-churches." The groups are channeling their combined wealth into an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels massive redevelopment projects such as constructing low-income housing, homeless shelters, day care centers, gyms, and job-training centers. The churches are wrestling with their missionary mandates to revitalize both individuals and the communities where they live.

Forty years after the New York Philharmonic spurned Carnegie Hall for its rival, the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, the orchestra announces it will return to Carnegie. But the merger of the two prestigious institutions faces potential legal entanglements with Lincoln Center. Jeff Lunden reports.

Filmmaker Ric Burns' new documentary is a history of the World Trade Center. The Center of the World airs Monday, Sept. 8, as part of the American Experience series on PBS. It's the final episode in Burns' New York: A Documentary Film. Burns speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Dr. Helen Boucher, chief of the infectious diseases department at Tufts University Medical Center, talks about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of new symptoms for COVID-19.