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Cities across the U.S. were stepping up security after the explosions in London on Thursday. The Bush administration raised the terror alert to code orange for mass transit systems -- but not for airlines.

For 34 years, Bob Woodward has been a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. His new book is about the confidential source he and reporting partner Carl Bernstein relied on in the Watergate story, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat.

For many young men and women, joining the military is a path out of poverty. But those who return to impoverished neighborhoods with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder can find it especially hard to recover. We profile Herold Noel, a veteran of the Iraq war who ended up homeless before getting help.

Since 1990, Boston's WGBH has pioneered an audio technology called Descriptive Video Service that offers a detailed explanation of programming and movies for visually-impaired viewers. Mathayu Warren-Lane, a writer, editor and director for the service, joins us for an interview.

Peter Benenson, the founder of the human rights organization Amnesty International, has died. Benenson, who was 83, started the group in 1961, calling for the release of prisoners of conscience. That impulse led to a movement that has grown into a world-wide watchdog for the oppressed.

Russian police are recommending prosecutors file criminal charges against a Web site that offers cheap music downloads to an international audience.

This past week, the President's Council on Bioethics released a report looking at ways to avoid the ethical minefields that stem cell research presents -- and still allow research to go forward. NPR's Joe Palca discusses the report's conclusions.

High school junior Lauryn Silverman of Youth Radio shares her struggle to recover from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, an illness that affects one out of every 100 high school and college-age females in the United States.

At least 500 people have died in Uzbekistan after violent protests in the Central Asian country. Demonstrators remain in control of parts of the country, which provided a military base for U.S. forces' operations in nearby Afghanistan. Last week Uzbek troops clashed with Islamic protesters after rebels freed inmates who were to be tried on charges of religious extremism.

Classes resume at Minnesota's Red Lake High School, three weeks after a teen gunman killed nine people before taking his own life. Students will attend class in an older part of the school, avoiding the area where the shootings took place. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Robertson reports.