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By the time a farmer hears a swarm, it's usually too late to do anything but wait for the plague to pass. At the moment, researchers have a hard time predicting the movements of locust swarms. But that may be changing.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's engages in a tense exchange with students and faculty at Columbia University after an address that included nuclear ambitions, Israel, and terrorism.

Ever since studies showed a compound in red wine boosted longevity in mice, sales of red wine supplements have skyrocketed. But little is known about resveratrol's effectiveness in humans, and lab tests show supplements aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Eighteen candidates met the deadline for 50th Congressional District election. Tom Fudge finds out who's in the race.

Host Tom Fudge speaks to Professors Ronald Bee and Farid Abdel-Nour about the eruption of violence between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Bee and Abdel-Nour speak about the origin of the

Ex-felons, and their hopes for redemption, will be on the ballot in Chicago Tuesday, when voters will elect a mayor and other city officials. Four former aldermen who were convicted on public corruption charges while in office have campaigned for their old jobs in an attempt to resurrect their political lives.

South Korean and U.S. researchers say they have successfully cloned a human embryo and extracted embryonic stem cells from it. The experiment, reported in the journal Science, is the first instance of cloned human stem cells -- an important step toward therapeutic cloning, in which patients' own replacement tissue would be generated to treat them. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

Merck agrees to pay nearly $5 billion to settle lawsuits from consumers contending the painkiller Vioxx caused heart attacks and strokes. The safety problems of Vioxx and the withdrawal of Vioxx from the market was a watershed event in regulating prescription drugs in the U.S.

Host Tom Fudge speaks to Professor Phil Saenz about the eminent domain initiative for Chula Vista, known as Proposition C. We also talk about the Mayor's race in Chula Vista, and the push for a new C

Proposition 87 would impose a tax on California oil refineries in order to establish a $4 billion Clean Alternative Energy Program. Host Tom Fudge speaks with both sides of the debate about why voter