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Soldiers around the world will stop what they're doing Thursday to take part in suicide prevention training. The "stand down" is part of the Army's response to an alarming suicide rate — on average, one a day.

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee has written an article in Newsweek about what he calls America's current failure to treat and prevent cancer — and a failure to make funding cancer research a priority. Dr. Mukherjee tells David Greene there is a lag in designing cancer drugs as well as funding cancer research in the U.S.

As soon as Italy clinched its win over England in the Euro 2020 soccer championship, racist comments started pouring in blaming three Black players for the loss.

Linda talks with Calvin Sims, a reporter for the New York Times. They discuss reports that some of the Tupac Amaru rebels who were holding 72 hostages in the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Peru attempted to surrender, but were killed in the military raid that freed the hostages anyway. Families of these rebels have been forbidden to hold funers...and the bodies will be buried in unmarked graves.

Remember the U.S. Embassy in Moscow scandal? During its construction, Soviet workers filled it with so many bugging devices, the US abandoned the project in the mid 80s. After a decade of finger pointing and political wrangling, a 100% American work crew has begun tearing down part of the Embassy building ....the first stage of a 250 million dollar renovation. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow.

-- N-P-R's Richard Gonzales reports that a federal judge has struck down a California initiative placing term limits on legislators and barring them from standing for office ever again. The lifetime ban was deemed an unconstitutional limit on voter choice.

A flagrant, stubborn pro-smoking essay from commentator Guillermo Gomez-Pena (ghee-YAIR-moh GOH-mez PAYN-yuh). He calls it his criminal passion...and claims that attempts to restrict smokers are an intervention of government in our private lives. (3:30) ((ST

Thursday marks 40 years since former President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers. That dealt a serious blow to the American labor movement.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Federal Treasury Employees Union President Anthony Reardon about the challenges of implementing the Biden administration's new vaccine requirements for federal workers.

In Massachusetts, heat in the winter is a public health necessity. Now with summer temperatures climbing, some public health experts say cooling aid is becoming a health priority too.