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The second-tier Marvel superhero gets a second-tier adaptation — though star Chris Hemsworth fits the strapping, swaggering, hammer-toting bill.

Vice President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of legislators to talk about the nation's debt. It was the first in a series of meetings at which the two parties will try to agree on a deficit plan that will win enough the support that Congress will vote to raise the legal limit on what the country can borrow. NPR's Mara Liasson joins Melissa Block to talk about all of this.

Following the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama traveled to ground zero Thursday to pay tribute to 9/11 victims. Obama visited with their families, New York City emergency responders — and he laid a wreath where the World Trade Center twin towers once stood. Melissa Block talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro, who traveled with the president.

Pakistani intelligence officials have started giving details of what they say bin Laden's family said about the raid and life in the compound.

When President Obama decided to make public a copy of his actual birth certificate, some people thought it was a mistake to dignify those on the fringe who doubted he was born in Hawaii. Looks like the president's political instincts were solid, based on a new poll.

Picking a winner from among the 20 horses in the Kentucky Derby is always a tough task. This year is no different. Keeneland’s President offered a little…

A severely depressed man (Mel Gibson) finds hope and help in a therapeutic hand puppet — though his recovery has its limits. Director and co-star Jodie Foster gives her old friend free rein to play off the two personas that have brought him both fame and notoriety.

For Mother's Day, William Anthony Cobb and his sister, Valerie Foster, pay tribute to their mother, Mary Cobb. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and after she died, her children remembered her influence on their lives.

If you'd like to sing to your baby this Mother's Day, but think your voice is enough to make a small child cry, fear not. A new CD just might boost your confidence.

Two years ago, siblings Natalie and Chris Geymayr saw a straight line to college and a middle-class life. But when their mother died and the recession hit, the pair dropped out of college to make money. Now, they're struggling to earn what they need — showing just how difficult it is to advance in this economy without a college degree.