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A Japanese chemist identified umami in the early 1900s, but it took a century for his work to be translated into English. NPR's Short Wave podcast looked into why it took so long to be recognized.

The war in Ukraine has exacerbated inflation in the Middle East, where countries rely on Russia and Ukraine for imported wheat.

President Trump has endorsed over 140 Republican candidates in this year's primaries. Tuesday will mark the first big test of his influence in Ohio's GOP Senate primary.

President Bush is expected to name a nine-member commission Friday charged with comparing the pre-war intelligence on Iraq with information learned since. On Thursday, CIA director George Tenet vigorously defended his agency's work, hours before a Senate panel began reviewing a draft report of its own probe into Iraq intelligence. Hear NPR's David Welna.

The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.

This past week, former U.S. weapons investigator David Kay told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction before last year's war. Kay also called for an investigation into U.S. intelligence in Iraq. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Washington, D.C.'s Earth Conservation Corps is a non-profit organization with a mission to recruit a few dozen young men and women in the community to clean up and restore their own neighborhood. But there's one hitch: It's one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports.

Seven Democrats are still in the running for the party's presidential nomination, and they'll be competing in seven different state contests Tuesday. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts leads in many polls after early victories in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Adam Hochberg.

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean makes an online entreaty for $700,000 to fund advertising in Wisconsin, calling the state's Feb. 17 primary a "must win." Dean's candidacy has suffered since he took an early lead in polls, building support and a large war chest by relying on the Internet and the ardent support of his campaign workers. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Dean.

The electronic-pop group Stereolab releases its first full-length CD since losing a core member to a cycling accident. The new album is called Margerine Eclipse. Critic Tom Moon has a review.