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A pro-government rally filled the streets of Damascus Friday with high school bands and families on what was dubbed National Unity Day. But across Syria, anti-government protests continued.

New rules going into effect July 1 will limit first-year medical residents to 16-hour shifts in the hopes of reducing the number of errors made by fatigued interns. But some say residents gain invaluable experience through longer hours and managing the fatigue that inevitably comes with practicing medicine.

The White House's new counterrorism proposals turn away from large-scale ground efforts and move more toward targeted, smaller-scale strikes, say two analysts interviewed by NPR.

The Navy Medical Inspector General has singled out Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton‘s Ombudsman Program for praise in an inspection report released this week.

Crunching the numbers on San Diego city pension reform. Supporters of a proposed ballot measure to eliminate pensions for most city workers, have come out with an economic breakdown of the proposal. We'll hear about the analysis and from an opponent to the proposal.

San Diego could save billions if the city offered most new employees 401(k) plans instead of pensions. At least, that’s what backers of a proposed ballot initiative say.

From inside China, it can often seem that modern Chinese power is more aimed at erasing a painful past than at writing a dominant future. The problem is that with a growing military and with increasingly assertive foreign and commercial policies, China doesn't always look that way from outside.

Protesters in the capital, Damascus, staged a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to press for democratic changes. It was the first officially sanctioned protest in the capital, and it comes just days after the regime allowed opposition activists to meet at a Damascus hotel.

For years, the New Zealand kakapo had no need to fly — the bird's only predators were in the sky — but then came human settlers and, with them, an invasive weasel-like predator. Author William Stolzenburg explores exotic island species' vulnerability to newcomers in Rat Island.

At his news conference, the president's first and more short-term campaign was his effort to get congressional Republicans to agree to raise the federal debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline set by the U.S. Treasury Department to avert a debt default by the U.S. government. His second and longer campaign was for re-election.