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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana delivers an offer of incentives to Iran from world powers who would like to see Iran curb its uranium enrichment program. Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani says the initiative contains "positive steps" but also some "ambiguities."

U.S. embassy support staff in China and Vietnam are given permission to leave those countries due to growing concerns over a contagious form of pneumonia. The World Health Organization reports that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has killed 78 people and sickened nearly 2,300, mostly in Asia. NPR's Joanne Silberner, Richard Knox and Rob Gifford report.

Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans officially welcomes back its first residents. The Algiers area is the first to open. But some officials think it's too soon because of contaminated water and lack of utilities, among other problems.

Inspectors discovered thousands of rodents at a Family Dollar warehouse, and now hundreds of stores have temporarily closed in order to deal with a recall of possibly contaminated products.

As part of NPR's Changing Face of America series, a report on how the practice of adoption is changing. Traditionally, adoptions have kept the identities of both biological and adoptive parents secret from each other. But increasingly families are entering into so-called "open adoptions" where they remain in some degree of contact with the birthmother as the child grows up. NPR's Neva Grant profiles a family in Portland, Oregon, that has two openly adopted children.

Scientists in Japan prove that it is possible to get a live, fertile mouse by activating an egg containing only DNA from female mice. The process of getting an unfertilized egg to start dividing is called parthenogenesis. Although many non-mammalian species reproduce this way, the Japanese mouse is the first known incidence in mammals. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

In Shakespeare's Songbook, a book and CD collection, author and musician Ross Duffin presents a collection of 160 songs from the comedies and tragedies of the great playwright.

Lead in drinking water in Washington, D.C., is just part of a larger, more profound problem that affects cities across the country. In his second report about contaminated drinking water, NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reveals that many cities are still getting their drinking water from systems that date back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Environmental Protection Agency tells officials in 31 states that new air-pollution controls are needed to control smog in counties containing more than 150 million people. The EPA, acting under court order, said 474 counties have air that fails federal standards or contributes to pollution in a neighboring area. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.

Encouraged by a Food and Drug Administration ruling last year banning weight-loss supplements containing ephedra, a consumer advocacy group targets at least a dozen other dietary supplements. The FDA had never before banned a dietary supplement, and it took years to agree on a ban on ephedra. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

An environmental advocacy group argues that the aerial fire retardant used to combat wildfires is leeching into waterways and causing environmental hazards, such as killing endangered fish and creating toxic algae blooms.

Hate mistletoe, eggnog or wrapping presents? NPR's All Things Considered wants to know what holiday traditions you hate and why.

Evening Masterworks: Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quintet in c Op. 104

A new study found that melatonin gummies may contain up to three times more melatonin than advertised due to little FDA oversight.

The governor's executive order declaring a state of emergency said the fires in Woodward county are about 20% contained.

Thousands of Florida homeowners who had healthy citrus trees cut down by the state are finally going to get paid for their losses.Gov. Rick Scott on…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida plans to eliminate plastic straws at its six casinos in the state.

The hospitalized veterans at Tampa's James A. Haley VA, like many Americans on this Memorial Day, will be able to munch on burgers and hotdogs at a good…

Authorities say they've arrested a Tampa Bay area middle school student who threatened to kill his classmates, using a picture of a sinister-looking clown…

Firefighters at Walt Disney World were warned to stop feeding alligators at one of the resort's fire stations two months before an alligator killed a…

A rabies alert has been issued for Venice and North Port by the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County after the discovery of a rabid bobcat.

Authorities say a man who had been sleeping in a Tampa commercial trash bin is recovering after nearly being crushed in the back of a garbage truck.The…

Friday's massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut has local officials on alert today.After 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary School,…

In this installment, we hear from married couple Jesus Benjamin and Anita May Flores.They met right before Ben went into the military. They kept in…

Addison Davis will work remotely while in quarantine.