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NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the future for Israel's next prime minister - Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR's Adam Hochberg joins Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina senator who's going for an unprecedented eighth term. A Republican challenger to the 93 year old says Senator Thurmond is too old to serve.

showing that pre-screening women for the sexually-transmitted disease, chlamydia, can reduce the incidence of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu worries about a new study that says writers are especially prone to mental illness. Manic depression, mood swings, alcoholism, and sexual promiscuity are all apparently pitfalls of the profession. Codrescu wonders which of these vices and failings he might have.

Detroit is celebrating the one-hundred-year anniversary of the first time automobiles were produced in volume, with many events scheduled all summer long. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on one ongoing event where engineering students are trying to build a environmentally friendly sedan which can travel up to eighty miles on a gallon of gas.

The Pope beatified two German priests for their resistance to the Third Reich. The Pope omitted some phrases of his prepared speech that claimed the "entire" Roman Catholic church had fought against the tyranny of the Nazis.

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California is making available for the first time the only known recording of O'Neill as he reads from his play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Susan talks with park ranger Jean Houts, who conducts daily tours of Tao House - where O'Neill wrote four of his most important plays.

Bob Mondello says that the new film "Mission: Impossible" doesn't self-destruct, but is only an adequate thriller.

today. He is the first North Korean defector to fly a military plane to the South since February 1983.

on gay rights.