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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf about February's shutdown of formula giant Abbott Nutrition, which led to a surge in demand that other formula makers struggle to meet.

Ed Gordon remembers Gordon Parks, who died on Tuesday. Parks captured black America as a photographer for Life magazine and became Hollywood's first major black director with the "blacksploitation" hit Shaft. Parks was 93 years old.

Dubai, the small Arab sheikhdom behind the U.S. ports controversy, is one of the fastest-growing and most cosmopolitan cities in the world. But diplomats and others say there's a dark side to the economic boom -- poorly paid foreign construction workers and widespread prostitution.

A British magazine about business and global politics seems an unlikely hit among American readers. But The Economist is defying expectations. It has doubled its readership in the U.S. since 1993.

Farai Chideya talks with New Orleans writer and educator Kalamu ya Salaam about his oral history project to document the city even as it undergoes massive change in its effort to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Adolphus Belk, Jr., a professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina, who says it is possible that the alleged shooter can be prosecuted under the act.

Like everything else Internet-related in China, podcasts are exploding in popularity. From film parodies to pornography, audio and video downloads are pushing the boundaries of the law and decency.

The House Appropriations Committee attaches an amendment to a Pentagon supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan that would stop Dubai Ports World from operating terminals at six U.S. ports they own. Attaching the amendment to the supplemental spending bill makes a veto more difficult.

George Mason University is the Cinderella team of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The 11th seed Patriots stunned top-ranked Connecticut on Sunday to make it to the Final Four next weekend in Indianapolis.

Members of the prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood go on trial Tuesday in a southern California courtroom. Federal prosecutors have linked the white-supremacist gang to a string of murders and attempted murders in California prisons.