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NPR's Jerome Vaughn reports from Chicago on the growing popularity of meal preparation and delivery services. The businesses offer healthy meals to customers too busy to cook and calculate diet requirements.

Listening to or testifying in court can be a stressful experience for kids. One courthouse in northern Ohio is trying to alleviate that discomfort with a support dog.

Scott Simon reviews the week's news with Andrew Sullivan, senior editor of The New Republic.

Ukrainian military officials say the strikes are an attempt to destroy infrastructure facilities and transport hubs and to target supply chains.

As we navigate the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are starting to see an evolution of the virus, creating some similarities with the seasonal flu.

Troy, a movie starring Brad Pitt as the heroic warrior Achilles and based on Homer's epic poem The Iliad, opens in theaters Friday. NPR's Bob Mondello says the film is a throwback to an earlier Hollywood era of sword and sandal epics.

An Iraqi nuclear scientist who spent years in the Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein has emerged as a top U.N. choice to become prime minister in Iraq's interim government, an Iraqi official says. A moderate Shiite, Hussain al-Shahristani is known for his management skills and has no formal ties to any Iraqi political party. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the possibility of sending a robot to save the Hubble Space Telescope. Without servicing, Hubble will quietly die in orbit in a few years.

Thousands of demonstrators crowd the streets of Rome to protest U.S. policies on Iraq and terrorism as President Bush visits the Eternal City. He went to the Vatican Friday to present Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and later met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The pope, who opposed the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, blessed the appointment of a new Iraqi government in Baghdad. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Three major inquiries into U.S. intelligence failures -- by Senate and House intelligence committees and the commission investigating the government's response to terrorism before and after the September 11 attacks -- are drawing to a close. Their reports will assess the performance of all American intelligence agencies, but the Central Intelligence Agency is bracing for especially harsh criticism. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.