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Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford says the automaker will cut up to 30,000 North American jobs by 2012. The moves are part of a restructuring plan that will see a number of manufacturing plants close, as well.

A Mars factory in Pennsylvania turns out millions of pieces of Dove dark chocolate using a secret method that preserves a compound found in raw cocoa beans. If Mars can harness that compound, chocolate may turn from a comfort food to a health food.

In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, U.S officials set up two secret agencies to deal with intelligence on Iraq. The now-defunct agencies are suspected of "cherry-picking" data to help build the administration's pro-war case and are at the heart of the scandal surrounding pre-war intelligence.

Egypt completes the third and final phase of parliamentary elections Thursday amid clashes between supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and the ruling National Democratic Party. The violence has escalated with the success of supporters of the opposition party at the polls.

The Montana Meth Project is sponsoring a new series of anti-drug advertisements designed to inform -- and perhaps to scare -- kids about the dangers of methamphetamine use.

With the start of hurricane season about three months away, many people are asking whether repairs to New Orleans' flood-protection system will be ready in time. NPR Science Correspondent David Kestenbaum provides an update on efforts to restore the city's levees.

New documents shed more light on Judge Samuel Alito's views on the landmark 1972 Supreme Court decision that established a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion.

President Yoweri Museveni prevails in Uganda's first multi-party elections in a quarter-century, winning 60 percent of the vote. EU observers say the elections were problematic; Museveni has been criticized of late as an autocrat.

Sectarian violence subsides somewhat in Iraq on the third day of a curfew, but the threat of civil war persists. Twenty-nine people -- including three U.S. soldiers -- die in attacks across the country Sunday. Iraqi leaders are hoping that containment on the ground and political reconciliation will appease Sunnis and Shia.

The revelation that Brazilian cab drivers in San Francisco were getting a taste of home at an off-the-radar restaurant sparked the interest of radio producers The Kitchen Sisters. Soon, they were making midnight runs to Janete's Cabyard Kitchen.