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Daniel talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, about the latest development in the long Bosnian war. Serb forces have pulled back from the Muslim enclave of Bihac after Croatia's army threatened the Croatian Serb stronghold of Krajina.

Charles Boyd is a lone juror who held out against convicting a defendant in a Maryland court recently, and he did so because of some lessons he learned from the OJ Simpson case. Danny talks to Boyd about his courtroom experience.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that with thousands...perhaps a million people expected to participate in tomorrow's Million Man March in Washington, observers are trying to distinguish the message of the event from its controversial organizer Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan drew criticism this week when during an interview with Reuters Television, he made an anti-Semetic remark.

Daniel talks to Thomas Hargrove, an American science writer who was held hostage in Colombia for nearly a year. He says that his hair turned orange from a vitamin deficency.

David Baron of member station WBUR in Boston reports on the effect that proposed cuts in medicare would have on teaching hospitals across the nation. The Medicare program is a major source of funding for teaching hospitals, a system which critics say has resulted in too many specialists being trained at government expense.

St. Petersburg faces the highest long-term projection of flooding days of any of the 15 cities in Florida cited by the report.

Johnson & Johnson says internal testing showed some sunscreen samples contained low levels of benzene, which causes cancer with long-term exposure.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a steady presence on the global stage since 2005. The four U.S. presidents she's worked with, however, have varied widely in their styles and priorities.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez runs one of the nation's biggest jails in Houston. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll be tasked with overhauling ICE, an agency he's criticized for its aggressive tactics.

With demonstrations of support for protesters in Cuba happening in Florida, there is some worry about if — and how — HB 1 will affect those participating.

Workers simply don't earn enough money to keep up with skyrocketing rental rates across the country, the National Low Income Housing Coalition found in its latest Out of Reach report.

In time for Father's Day, watch the celebrated pianist play lullabies by Bach and Brahms for his 22-month-old daughter, who nearly steals the show.

At the peak of the Perseids this week, up to 100 meteors an hour can be caught shooting across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks in their wake.

The Biden administration has launched a new ransomware task force and stopransomware.gov, a website of preventive resources.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist, says she is the target of an alleged kidnapping plot recently described in a federal indictment: "It's just obvious that they were going to execute me."

Louis Angelino III cleans people's homes for extra money. A friend hired him and left they key under the mat of his New Jersey townhouse. Angelino found the key but it was the wrong address.

A new study shows that nesting sea turtles on Florida beaches are getting smaller.

Democrats have essentially no wiggle room if they want to pass their newly unveiled $3.5 trillion budget plan along party lines. And already some Democrats are voicing concerns.

Robert Santos, one of the country's leading statisticians, could become the first person of color to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as a Senate-confirmed director.

The nation's top doctor, Vivek Murthy, says misinformation will keep sowing mistrust and endangering lives unless all Americans do their part to fight it.

Oakland, Calif., has named its first Poet Laureate. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga — also known as WordSlanger — will serve a two-year term aimed at making poetry more accessible to Oaklanders.

A new report by a DOJ watchdog finds the FBI mishandled sexual assault allegations involving Larry Nassar, the longtime USA Gymnastics doctor who was accused of abuse by dozens and women and girls.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kaiser Health News correspondent Aneri Pattani about health officials' findings that there were more than 93,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2020.

The pandemic has hurt even routine health services such as vaccines and checkups, as well as immunization outreach, for children around the world, the World Health Organization and UNICEF report.