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For years visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line. Scientists say that marking was in the wrong place because distortions caused by gravity weren't taken into account.

The new rules come after years of criticism that the Department of Justice has held companies but not executives accountable.

The rule requires brokers to act in the best interest of their clients when it comes to retirement accounts.

Hurricanes, a hydrogen bomb and hoax accounts all made news around the world this week.

Isabel Allende's novel, Ines of My Soul, is a fictionalized account of the life of Ines Suarez, a seamstress who helped found Chile. The story led Allende to empathize with both sides of a centuries-old conflict.

Among his other mandates, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating the firings of the White House Travel Office staff, which occurred early in the Clinton Administration. Starr received that assignment through an unusual chain of events: the General Accounting Office has referred Clinton aide David Watkins to the Jusitce Department for a criminal investigation becuase Watkins allegedly had lied to GAO investigators. The GAO made that referral after encouragement from republican Congressman William Clinger of Pennsylvania, who chairs the committee investigating the Travel Office affair. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

Political commentator David Frum. From January 2001 to February 2002 he was a special assistant to President Bush for economic speech-writing. He held the position during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and he's the man who put the axis in the oft-repeated Bush term "axis of evil." Frum is the author of the new book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, an inside account of the White House.

Republicans banned Elmo, Big Bird as well as Burt and Ernie from attending because Big Bird's Twitter account shared that he got a COVID-19 vaccine. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called it "propaganda."

Personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war. Mandy Terc is a master's student in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard. The 25-year-old Chicago native is in Beirut taking Arabic classes and working on an oral history project about Palestinian refugees. This week, Terc attended a candlelight vigil in downtown Beirut. She was with a few of her American friends, each holding a sign with a message protesting the war in Iraq. Her sign read "Americans Say Regime Change Starts At Home."

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is probing the alleged unprovoked killings of 24 civilians last November by U.S. Marines in the insurgent hotbed of Haditha, Iraq. According to news accounts, the killings were in retaliation for the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, Jr.