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U.S. Marines pushing to the center of Baghdad from the east are expected to link up with Army troops moving in from the west. The Marines' advance is met with sporadic resistance. Hear NPR's John Burnett.

The town of Batavia, Ohio, holds a vigil for Matt Maupin, the U.S. Army soldier who is being held hostage in Iraq. Ann Thompson of member station WVXU reports.

More than two dozen people are dead and more than 300 wounded in a Taliban attack in the Afghan capital Tuesday.

If you've ever played "Operation" and lost, maybe you'll have better luck with this word game where board games are mashed up with body parts.

The percentage of congressional representatives with a background in computers: THREE

This episode's mystery guest, Laurie Pressman, has a job in which she helps select the winner of a well-known annual award. Can you solve the mystery before Jonathan and Ophira do?

In this music parody, Jonathan Coulton sings about various geographic locations, to the tune of songs performed by bands named after those locations. It's a thing!

In this audio quiz, Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead identify songs with the word "yeah" in them. Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhh.

Internal medicine physician Dr. Abraar Karan of Harvard Medical School gives advice to listeners who find themselves in tough situations, such as needing to travel or take care of elders.

Americans overseas trying to complete international adoptions have urged the U.S. government to expedite their children's visas so they can return as a family.