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Retailers pay an interchange fee to banks every time you buy with your debit card. But new legislation is about to bring these swipe fees down, hurting bank revenues. So, retailers and banks have begun fighting over the rule — in the offices of lawmakers, and on the walls of subway cars.

Pumping music, heavy doors and slippery floors are just a few things that make a store less inviting to senior citizens. As their sector is set to grow in the next decade, some retailers are starting to make spaces more welcoming to this consumer group.

Osama bin Laden's death has changed the political situation in Afghanistan, according to Vali Nasr, a recent senior adviser to the State Department. He tells Steve Inskeep there's a great deal of possibility, both within the U.S. and in Afghanistan, to think about how to end the war more quickly through some form of a political settlement.

The federal government alleged that Lauren Stevens, once an in-house lawyer, had obstructed an Food and Drug Administration investigation into Glaxo's marketing of the antidepressant Wellbutrin as a weight-loss aid. A federal judge acquitted her before the defense called a witness.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired Iran's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi. But he was reinstated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, provoking a protest from the president. Charges of sorcery and black magic have arisen in the political power battle that followed.

In Richmond Tuesday, President Obama's health overhaul law got its first hearing before a federal appeals court. The three-judge panel actually heard arguments on two different cases decided by lower court judges last year. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Julie Rovner for more.

NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks, hours after an uptick in fighting between rebels and Moammar Gadhafi's forces on a long-deadlocked front line in the country's east.

The sign has turned what started as a neighborhood dispute about size and proximity of a new mosque into a discussion of Islamophobia and free speech.

Ali Tarhouni fled Libya 40 years ago and wound up teaching microeconomics at the University of Washington. Now, he's back in Libya — working as the rebels' finance minister

Manny Pacquiao may be one of the greatest athletes out there right now. But, as commentator Frank Deford points out, not many people are paying attention.