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Around 70 percent of all American casualties in Iraq come from the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by insurgents. We take a closer look at this deadly problem.

In the WBUR podcast Last Seen: Posmortem, host Ally Jarmanning digs into the world of legal remains trading.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.

The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won't be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

In the fight against violent extremism, there's a hot debate: Who's an extremist? Two cousins, one a far-right militia member and the other aligned with Antifa, bring that debate to life.

John Dillon reports Vermonters are worried the results of last week's election might be felt in the Green Mountain State. Vermont enjoyed significant power while Democrats controlled the United States Senate. Now the GOP's on top, and Sens. Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy may be out in the cold.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on letters allegedly written by FBI agent Robert Phillip Hanssen -- letters that are now leading investigators to believe Hanssen has been supplying Russia with top-level U.S. security information for the past 15 years.

Robert Siegel talks to Margo Wallstrom, the European Commission's top environmental official, about her visit to Washington today, and her discussion with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Wallstrom conveyed strong European concerns about the decision by the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.

NPR's David Welna reports on today's action in the House of Representatives on the proposed repeal of estate taxes. The plan would reduce the top rate of 55 percent to 39 percent by 2010, and then phase it out altogether in 2011. It's a move that is expected to cost $193 billion over the next 10 years.

Top officials of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, push Congress to pass an intelligence reform bill. NPR's David Welna reports.