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More than 35 people are killed and dozens more are wounded in a car bomb attack on a recruiting center for Iraq's security forces in Baghdad. The blast, which occurred during the morning rush hour, destroyed nearby cars and damaged buildings. Hear NPR's David Sweeney.

Russia will soon have a new president, and it appears it will be Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor. Analyst Masha Lipman of the Moscow Carnegie Center says that despite recent liberal-sounding rhetoric, Medvedev will likely maintain the status quo.

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - A pair of former gambling industry executives and the owner of a conference center hope to convince Decatur officials to back their…

Researcher Joshua Santarpia of the University of Nebraska Medical Center answers listener questions about the best disinfecting practices during the pandemic.

Dr. Helen Boucher, chief of the department at Tufts University Medical Center, and Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, take listener questions on blood.

Dr. Helen Boucher, chief of the infectious diseases department at Tufts Medical Center, helps listeners with hard-to-answer questions.

Drug recovery centers in Massachusetts are giving drug users a second chance to rebuild their lives.

Scott talks with Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Roslyn, VA about a recent incident at Louisianna State University where some minority students threw out all the copies of the free student paper because of articles it was running on the Ku Klux Klan.

Nick Spitzer has a review of the latest recording from fiddle player Natalie MacMaster. There's recently been a revival in the popularity of traditional Scottish fiddle music, particularly in parts of Canada with a rich Scottish heritage. Cape Breton Island, in the easternmost part of Nova Scotia, has become a center of the revival, which is capturing new devotees...especially amongst the young.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children expect their new Internet site to be up this week at this URL: >http://www.missingkids.org