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Billy Bang's story is not unusual for an urban teen of the 1960s. He was drafted after high school and sent to Vietnam. But the jazz violinist has turned his war experience into one of the most remarkable albums of 2003, says Howard Mandel in a report for Weekend Edition Saturday.

A group of international fossil hunters are reporting a discovery in South America that has them rubbing their eyes in disbelief. They've uncovered a skeleton of a rodent that was bigger than a human. Despite its size, some say the animal was more cuddly than fierce. Hear NPR's Christopher Joyce.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug intended to make healthy, short children taller. The drug -- growth hormone -- has long been used to boost the height of children who are small due to medical problems. Critics charge that giving the drug to healthy children is unwise. NPR offers a three-part report.

Salon.com publishes previously unreleased photos of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. Separately, a U.N. report urges the United States to close its military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Utah lawmakers say the No Child Left Behind Act is unfair. Last year, they were close to opting out of the federal mandate altogether. When U.S. education officials threatened to pull another hundred million in federal funding, the rebellious lawmakers reconsidered. From member station KCPW in Salt Lake City, Julie Rose reports.

A police report found holes in former prime minister Shinzo Abe's protection that allowed the alleged attacker to shoot him from behind.

Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston explores in his new book how in recent years, government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected.

Russia's unmanned robot lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country's space agency Roscosmos reported.

Panamanians were caught off guard to find themselves at the center of President Trump's expansionist agenda. We visit the canal, attend protests and report on Rubio's message to the people of Panama.

The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.