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New rules will require social media networks in the European Union to more closely monitor hate speech and other illegal content posted on their platforms.

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Colin Carlson, co-author of a new study projecting that viruses will jump more frequently among species due to climate change, raising the risk of another pandemic.

Traditionally, presidential candidates have coveted labor endorsements. But in the current presidential election campaign, backing from labor has not guaranteed candidates success in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. Hear NPR's Juan Williams.

NPR's Noah Adams, continuing his series on low-wage workers, reports from New Orleans on the Kid's Cafe at Saint Philip Church. Every Thursday evening about 70 youngsters and parents gather for a white tablecloth dinner. The community effort is supported by Second Harvesters Food Bank, with the help of students from nearby Dillard University, a historically black school. Campus Kitchen volunteers prepare food the night before, and the Dillard students take a mentoring role at the dinner, talking to the kids about their problems and encouraging them to plan for college and professional careers.

As Democrats narrow the field of presidential candidates, the debate over the economic policies of the Bush White House begin to take shape. NPR's Michele Kelemen gets a preview of some of the points of contention from Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

CIA director George Tenet testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee, for the first time since former chief Iraq arms hunter David Kay said he doubted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded. A senior Democrat on the panel has accused Tenet of giving false testimony to Congress shortly before the invasion got underway. Hear NPR's David Welna.

As Sen. John Kerry strengthens his lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the focus shifts to his Senate voting record. His Democratic rivals and Republican strategists are examining Kerry's record closely for weaknesses they can exploit. NPR's David Welna reports.

A draft opinion published by Politico suggests that earlier this year a majority of Supreme Court justices supported overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.

The U.S. Army is canceling the multi-billion dollar Comanche helicopter program in effort to put funds towards a new group of unmanned airships. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports warfare methods have changed since the Comanche program was started two decades ago.

Senior News Analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that, strangely enough, Saddam Hussein may have believed -- as he reportedly believed in the first Gulf War -- that a casualty-averse America would not risk lives to wage war in Iraq.