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  • A year ago, a gunman opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and stunning the nation. Linda Wertheimer speaks with Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee about the case.
  • The Cuban vessel, intercepted by Panama, was carrying missile parts and disassembled fighter planes to North Korea. Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with Frank Mora, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, about the historic relationship between Cuba and North Korea.
  • China's state media says the alleged bomber was the only person wounded in the the incident at the airport terminal.
  • The suspects confessed to raping the 39-year-old woman in March as she and her husband were camping in the country's central state of Madhya Pradesh.
  • Two members of Congress want to preserve artifacts from American lunar missions with a national park on the moon, but there are some international hurdles to jump. Still, Space Policy Institute director Dr. Scott Pace says the bill raises intriguing questions about what the future of human-space interaction will look like.
  • India's government has a plan to feed 800 million poor people with subsidized food grains. Critics say it's too expensive and designed primarily to win elections next year.
  • The Arlington County Fire Department in Virginia was the first in the nation to hire a woman into a full-time position to fight fires. But women in that career remain under-represented, and the county is promoting the fire service to teenage girls, hoping they'll follow in Judy Brewer's footsteps.
  • President Obama's remarks on the Trayvon Martin shooting case were useful in opening white America's eyes to black America's experience, says author and commentator John McWhorter. McWhorter, who's written several books about race in American, tells host Rachel Martin what he thinks about the president's prescriptions.
  • Titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Tour de France are just a taste of what British sports fans have been waiting a long time to experience.
  • The world is awash in "Royal Baby Fever," but in London, the much-trumpeted affliction is more of a summer silly season snuffle — spreading faster around the world than it is in the U.K.
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