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In special coverage from NPR news, the events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden. Also, a look at the future of al-Qaida, the changing roles of the national security community and U.S. relationships in the Middle East.

President Obama's success in ordering up the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden gave the president a much needed boost at a time when his political fortunes appeared to be sagging.

In a national survey Monday, 56% said they approve of the way the president is handling his job and 38% said they disapprove. In a Pew poll last month, 47% approved and 45% disapproved.

What do you say if your kids ask if they are now safe, or if it's right to retaliate against the "bad guy?" In this week's parenting conversation, host Michel Martin speaks with clinical psychologist Robin Goodman, Junior Scholastic magazine editor Suzanne McCabe, and Tell Me More contributor Jolene Ivey.

The discovery of Osama bin Laden in that compound — not far from the Pakistani capital Islamabad — raises all kinds of questions about what Pakistan knew about his presence. Melissa Block speaks with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, about bin Laden.

Brett Henderson ran a marathon through downtown Cincinnati. According to his mom, he was wearing a pair of borrowed shorts. They kept slipping as he ran so he took them off and proceeded naked. Police ordered him to stop but he kept running. He might have finished, except a cop finally shot him with a taser.

Ten years ago, a school teacher in East Wenatchee, Wash., vowed he would not shave until Osama bin Laden was captured or killed. Gary Weddle kept that promise. But as the Daily Astorian reports, on Sunday night, Weddle got out the razor.

Rep. Mike Rogers says the death of Osama bin Laden "closes a key chapter in the war on terror." The Michigan Republican is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He tells Linda Wertheimer the "fight will go on" until al-Qaida has been eliminated.

In the media, Stanley Ann Dunham is often identified simply as "a white anthropologist from Kansas," or "a single mother on food stamps." But biographer Janny Scott argues that those descriptions don't do justice to the president's mother — a complex, intellectual woman who led an "unconventional" life.

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