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The Peace Corps has a new project with a new mission. It's working with the Global Health Service Corps to send American doctors and nurses to Africa. Those volunteers will train medical professionals there to help create a healthier future. Host Michel Martin discusses the Global Health Service Partnership.

Bush, 88, had been in Houston's Methodist Hospital for nearly two months. He was being treated for complications related to bronchitis and a stubborn fever. He's the oldest of the nation's four living former presidents.

There are many theories about where the expression comes from — among them square-riggers with three masts, the amount of cloth in the queen's bridal train, the Shroud of Turin, and a prodigiously well-endowed Scotsman who gets his kilt caught in a door.

President Obama will soon be sworn into office, and whether you voted for him or not, he's everybody's president. What do you want him to remember in his second term?

A new report from the International Rescue Committee finds an increase in violence against women. More than a half-million Syrians have fled their homeland, and there's no prospect of a quick return, the report says.

After Courtney and Harly Forbes were victimized by a bike theft, their community rallied behind them — they were given a new bike, and the thief returned their tandem with a note asking for forgiveness. Now the couple says they will give their returned bike away, after they fix it up.

The U.S. is mulling over ways to help France, as the French military continues its bombing raids in Northern Mali. The State Department says it shares the French goal of restoring order in part of that African country which is now overrun by extremists, including an al-Qaida affiliate. But the U.S. has long argued that the solution needs to be African-led, so the Obama administration — while offering France some "limited logistical support" — is also trying to speed up efforts to train an African intervention force for Mali.

The natural gas fracking boom has sped up life in Towanda, Pa. There are positives and negatives to that fact — Towanda's unemployment rate stayed low throughout the recession, but its crime rate jumped, too. And now that natural gas prices have slowed down drilling, Towanda is wondering whether its boom is already turning into a bust.

One month after the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., families of those killed joined with other residents to announce the formation of a new national organization that's aimed at curbing gun violence in America.

Audie Cornish speaks with Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, about a new study out on gun control options and beliefs.