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With Republicans under fire for using the investigation for partisan purposes, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is set to appear before the Select Committee on Benghazi Thursday.

U.N.-brokered talks to end the Syrian civil war are taking place in Geneva, but so far the warring sides won't even be in the same room together. NPR's Peter Kenyon updates Rachel Martin.

Private insurers billed California $387.5 million to treat just 3,624 patients with new medications for hepatitis C. The people are covered by the state's Medicaid program.

On Friday, the Obama administration announced a halt to new coal leases on federal land. In Wyoming, most of the federally-owned coal mines and revenue from coal leases pays for school construction.

State health officials suspect California's big measles outbreak last year helped persuade parents to get their kids immunized against other illnesses, too.

Stock markets are often seen as a predictor of what's ahead for the economy. But some say this year's falling markets are crying wolf. "I think financial markets have overreacted," says one economist.

Peter Rabbit — older and stouter — returns this fall in a newly published Beatrix Potter story, The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots. It was probably written just before World War I and then abandoned.

Laws take effect this week aimed at curbing Italy's love of smoking. Smokers who flick butts on the street, risk a $300 fine. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Salvatore Barberi a tour guide in Rome.

Writer Diana Abu-Jaber recalls her grandmother's holiday cookies, which they call "wurst cakes." This story originally aired on Dec. 12, 2013 on All Things Considered.

The self-described militiamen occupying buildings at a national wildlife refuge accuse the federal government of overreaching its authority and say they'll remain in their new base for years.