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The Bush administration has drawn up military plans that anticipate an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities if diplomatic options fail. Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker tells Liane Hansen what the military might face in attacking Iran.

President Bush and new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trade stern messages on the future of Iran's nuclear program. Hadi Semati, a professor of political science at Tehran University, says U.S. statements about a military option do not signal a policy shift.

Hurricane Dennis has left Cuba and is now on track to blow into the Gulf Coast between Florida and Louisiana. NPR's Tom Gjelten is in Cuba and describes the damage the hurricane did to the island nation.

A passenger on board the Amtrak train that crashed into a truck and derailed in Missouri on Monday, killing four people, has described the harrowing moment when his carriage rolled.

Despite some major roads still being washed out, three of the massive park's five entrances opened this morning, to lines hundreds of cars long.

The U.S., Canada and Mexico will host the first-ever 48-team World Cup. Sixty of the matches will be played at stadiums across the U.S.

The internet went wild after the Virginia-Kentucky District Fair shared that Linda Skeens dominated the competition. Mason Mousette, a radio host at HOT 93.3 in Dallas, was determined to find her.

In their new book, Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman set out to examine why certain things — and people — drive us bananas.

English rose from humble beginnings to become a language that's spoken by people from every corner of the Earth. In Globish, Robert McCrum tells the story of how a mongrel language slowly took the world by storm.

It's easy to feel the romance in the musical relationship between Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, who've become musical embodiments of how loving couples make it work.