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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) says the White House unfairly made CIA director George Tenet the scapegoat for faulty intelligence on Iraq. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee also tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice should not have allowed President Bush to tell the American people that Saddam Hussein tried to obtain uranium from Africa.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer grapples with the morality of meat and the brutality of the factory farm system in his new book, Eating Animals. The book is part memoir and part investigative report.

Two recent California efforts to reign in hospital prices - or at least reduce pricing disparities between hospital providers in the state for the same procedure - have been stymied, thanks to the hospital lobby.

Boeing is holding up deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner because of yet another manufacturing problem. It's the latest in a string of setbacks affecting the 787 and another Boeing plane, the 737 Max. Boeing said Tuesday that it is inspecting fittings on part of the tail of 787s called the horizontal stabilizer for "a nonconforming condition." The company says the inspections and repair work will affect near-term deliveries but won't change the company's forecast of deliveries for the full year.

Following a victory on Saturday, Wrexham has gained promotion and starting in August will play in the fourth highest tier in English soccer.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first approved the project, which is opposed by many environmental groups, in 2016, but Tuesday's announcement means construction can begin later this year.

On its surface, L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fantastical adventure, set in a magical land of munchkins and winged monkeys. But historian Quentin Taylor reads modern parallels into the story.

The billionaire chief of Tesla and SpaceX will host the sketch-comedy show on May 8, NBC announced. Reaction on social media has been mixed.

A tiny satellite made by startup Geometric Energy Corp. will display advertising on its side that will then be livestreamed back to Earth.

Two years before his death from cancer in 1991, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz entered the studio with producer Herb Alpert. The tapes were shelved at the time in favor of a more ambitious project; they were only recently found. Alpert speaks to NPR's Liane Hansen about his friendship with Getz and the '89 session, now on the CD Bossas and Ballads.