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West Nile virus warnings have become a rite of spring since the virus was first detected in 1999 in New York. The disease has been spreading across the country ever since, and now, residents of more 40 states are being urged to mosquito-proof themselves and their homes. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

The Skagit Valley, a lush area near the coast between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada, dominates the North American tulip industry. One family-owned company has led the way in producing a variety of bulbs -- and hundreds of acres of blooming tulips -- in the area. As half a million sightseers begin to pour into the area, NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

Newspapers are in trouble, and many Web sites, blogs and cable news shows have opinionated hosts at the helm. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Jones talks about his book, Losing the News, and the crisis facing impartial reporting.

Investigative reporter Mark Schapiro explains in a new book that toxic chemicals exist in many of the products we handle every day — agents that can cause cancer, genetic damage and birth defects lacing everything from our gadgets to our toys to our beauty products.

The 16-member team will begin the study on Monday. The research, which will use unclassified data, will lead to a report that will be made available to the public next year.

About half the cases came from United States citizens who were being exploited.

Employers added 128,000 jobs to their payrolls in August, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent. The Labor Department's monthly employment report presents a picture of an economy that is still expanding, but at a more moderate pace.

New York Gov. David Paterson said Friday at least 12 people were killed in an attack on an immigration-services center in Binghamton, N.Y. News reports say a gunman entered the building while firing, and took hostages.

FDA scientists studying the chemical composition of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats say they're as safe as that of their noncloned counterparts. The FDA findings, similar to an EU report issued last week, do not address the ethics of cloning.

NPR's Baghdad bureau chief, Jamie Tarabay, has lived in and covered Iraq since December 2005. Australian by birth, Lebanese by heritage, she lived for three years as a child in Beirut during the bombings there. Before joining NPR, she worked for the Associated Press.