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Actually, she's a peahen. And the free-thinking bird is, you guessed it, now tweeting about her travels. Bronx Zoo Cobra isn't happy about that.

The Texas legislature recently passed a bill requiring doctors to conduct a sonogram at least 24 hours before performing an abortion. Texas State Rep. Sid Miller wrote the bill and says it will "save numerous unborn lives." Abortion rights advocates worry the law will make it tougher for women to seek abortions. Host Michel Martin discusses the legislation with Texas State Representatives Sid Miller and Carol Alvarado. Alvarado opposes the legislation and is a former board member of Planned Parenthood.

The Mississippi River's floodwaters were bearing down on one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the country after cresting at Memphis, Tenn., just inches short of the record set in 1937. Meanwhile, officials were busy trying to patch up "sand boils," spots where the Mississippi River was undermining the levee defenses.

In a big win for federal prosecutors, a jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam on 14 counts of conspiracy and fraud. Prosecutors say the financier, founder of the Galleon Group, made tens of millions of dollars in illegal stock trades using inside information gleaned from networks of corporate insiders.

In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, the political junkie, and Pakistani Americans on what's changed since the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the second hour, the challenges of transracial adoption, and the Arctic Council Summit

In his work with Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles, Innes writes music packed with jokes and laugh-out-loud satire.

Financial giant Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire investor who founded Galleon Group, was found guilty Wednesday in New York in the largest insider trading case ever involving hedge funds. The case against him was made stronger because of wiretapped conversations in which he brazenly swapped inside stock tips.

Once again, fundamentalist Christians believe the End is near. What may surprise many is that science, since its origins and still very much to today, also is interested in apocalyptic notions

This weekend will mark Rob Mariano's sixth try at winning a reality show. He probably won't win, but if you can understand why he keeps coming back, you'll understand the phenomenon of reality TV a lot better.

In Syria at least 20 people are dead and snipers in Yemen opened fire on a group of protesters.