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Celebrated comedian David Steinberg will share his personal stories and reflect on the difficulty and delight of making people laugh in a new one-man show at the La Jolla Playhouse.

There is an alarming new report about the situation in Somalia. United Nations monitors say seven countries and various groups are supporting Islamists who control much of the country. The report also ties Somalia's Islamists to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Tropical Storm Tomas is expected to reach hurricane force by the time it reaches the Caribbean nation early Friday. The government has urged more than a million residents still homeless after this year's massive earthquake to evacuate emergency camps. But few have anywhere else to go.

Wade Page, who police say killed six people in a Sikh temple on Sunday, had long been on the radar of groups that track white supremacists. But you can't be arrested for hateful thoughts. And observers say finding the real threats has gotten harder for police with the rise of the Internet.

As Senate Democrats on Tuesday pushed their health care bill closer to final passage, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina derided the legislative process as "a joke" but told NPR that lessons learned could foster renewed bipartisanship on the issue of energy independence.

It could be a busy week in Washington, D.C. as lawmakers try to work out a spending plan to prevent a possible government shutdown. We speak to NPR White House Correspondent about the budget negotiations, the president's reelection announcement, and the nationwide unemployment rate.

Twelve years after the war began, Afghanistan's president announced Tuesday that Afghan forces officially assumed control of security for the country. U.S. and NATO troops will remain until the 2014 deadline, but the Afghan military is now expected to fight without NATO support.

Israel is hopeful that the U.N. peacekeeping force will achieve its goals of disarming Hezbollah and pushing it north of the Litani River, says government spokesman Mark Regev. Israel is eager for the U.N. peacekeepers to come in, he says, but believes its members should come from countries that have good relations with both Israel and Lebanon.

By a recent estimate, 1 percent of America's technology entrepreneurs are black. And only 8 percent of tech companies are founded by women. A new boot camp aims to give these entrepreneurs pointers so they can get their startups off the ground.

Late last week, North Korea detonated a nuclear device, which led to a swift condemnation from the United States and the U.N. Security Council. Since then, the tensions between North Korea and the international community have increased.