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The U.S. government is working to redirect remaining supplies of the flu vaccine as it tries to ensure it reaches people who need it most: children, the elderly and people with chronic diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with a supplier to route the flu shots to the public. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

The rebuilding of the World Trade Center officially begins, as a 20-ton piece of granite is lowered into place. The slab will serve as the cornerstone of the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, which has design elements that echo the Statue of Liberty. Hear Dan Blumberg of member station WNYC.

Dance Mobility's Adapted Ballroom Dance Competition is giving amputees and mobility-challenged people a chance to be center stage. Paralympic medalist Cheryl Angelelli created the group.

The book centers around a teenage girl from a small village who is selected to serve the Communist Party and Chairman Mao at the start of the Cultural Revolution in China.

Robert Siegel talks with Robert James Shiller about the current situation with the financial markets, interest rates, and the future of the real estate boom. Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale University's International Center for Finance and author of Irrational Exuberance, Redux: Including the Real Estate Market Bubble and the Rise of the Ownership Society.

The former first lady co-founded the Betty Ford Center just four years after opening up about her own struggles with drugs and alcohol in the late 1970’s.

The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Counter Terrorism Center issued a bulletin warning of a heightened "domestic violence threat environment" in the final days of this midterm election cycle and following the outcome.

For the first time on Broadway, the production centers around a Black Loman family. It closes this Sunday.

The new thriller centers around the partnership between an E.R. doctor fleeing an abusive boyfriend and a gas station clerk who are connected by a misdialed phone call.

The National Book Award fiction finalist centers around Sneha, a recent college graduate from India who's making her way in Milwaukee in 2013.