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Former Marine Bing West talks with Steve Inskeep about the efforts against insurgents in Ramadi. Bing has been to Ramadi nine times since 2003. He returned from an assignment there last week, reporting for the online magazine Slate.

Vangelis composed the music for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, which won him an Academy Award.

The military junta of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has imposed another year of house arrest on democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Emma Larkin, author of Finding George Orwell in Burma, talks about the sentence extension. Emma Larkin is a pseudonym for the author.

After months of fighting and shelling, Ukraine has ended its combat mission in Mariupol, and its remaining soldiers have been evacuated to Russian-held territory.

David Lipsky reviews the latest installment of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, graphic novels that depict the adventures of Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand. The futuristic tale mixing humor and disaster is in its seventh volume, "Paper Dolls."

Many members of Congress want the Veteran's Administration to pay for services to help all 26 million vets affected by a recent data theft. But some consumer groups say the services don't do much good.

Poet Edward Field was a fixture in the post-World War II literary community of New York... a companion of Frank O'Hara, James Baldwin and Susan Sontag, among others. His memoir is The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemns the deaths of two dozen civilians in Haditha last fall as "a horrible crime." In addition, seven U.S. Marines and a sailor could be charged with murder, kidnapping or conspiracy in connection with a single Iraqi death in April.

Senate Democrats have blocked legislation that would have raised the minimum wage. Though the federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in a decade, Democrats would not support the bill because it also would have permanently cut estate taxes.

A massive heat wave continues to broil many parts of the United States, with temperatures topping 100 degrees for the third consecutive day in many places. And with high humidity and other factors, the heat index shows that the temperatures often feel even hotter.