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The number of American children diagnosed and medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder more than tripled in the 1990s. Some scientists say it's good that children are getting treatment, while others worry that kids are being drugged for having normal childhood problems. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

NPR's Deborah Amos has the second in a two-part series of reports about postwar developments in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Unlike central Iraq, Mosul is relatively calm, and U.S. forces in the city have made a successful start of reconstruction in the region.

Baghdad University students and academics express outrage at the dismissal of the school's board-elected president. Iraq's new minister of higher education, appointed by the nation's governing council, says Sami al-Muhdafal was an ineffective administrator. But critics say the firing came after Muhdafal criticized the council. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Iraqi school children went back to class Wednesday. Some returned to schools renovated and re-equipped by the U.S. military and the occupation authority. But other schools have yet to be re-fitted, and many have not yet received promised new textbooks devoid of praise for Saddam Hussein. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich formally launches his bid for the White House. The four-term Democratic congressman from Ohio calls himself the urban populist candidate, but he's having trouble gaining enough support to be considered viable. Janet Babin from member station WCPN reports.

The United States hopes to secure funding for at least part of the cost of rebuilding Iraq when donor nations meet Thursday in Madrid. So far, pledges have been small compared to what Washington and the World Bank estimate is needed to rebuild Iraq. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

None of the more than 10,000 reconstruction projects under way in Iraq are targeted at the nation's infrastructure. Contractors warn that so far, Congress has set aside only a fraction of the money needed to get the job done. Many Iraqi subcontractors are increasingly frustrated with the paucity of funds and slow pace of the work. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

U.S. forces raid three homes near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, detaining several Iraqis. Six months after the end of major combat in Iraq, progress in rebuilding the country is offset by continued disenchantment with American occupying forces. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

U.S. officials accuse Syria of failing to stop foreign fighters from crossing over into neighboring Iraq to attack U.S. forces. Syria's leaders say they cannot fully control the long desert frontier, and complain they are being unfairly targeted. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

Bombings rock the Iraqi capital Monday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Rocket attacks and car bombs leave at least 35 people dead and more than 200 others wounded, in the bloodiest single day in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.