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For years, former sports agent Josh Luchs provided money and other benefits to college athletes, in clear violation of NCAA and NFL Players Association rules. He comes clean in a new memoir, Illegal Procedure.

Despite broad international support, the peace plan is in flux. Opposition groups believe that President Bashar Assad is just trying to buy time.

Tracy Martin is convinced that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman racially profiled his son. The teen's Feb. 26 shooting has ignited a national discussion of race relations.

In the new biography Hitler, A.N. Wilson describes the Nazi dictator as the "Demon King of history" but also as an ordinary and even boring man. "Many of the ideas that he had and expressed ... were ideas that more or less everybody had at that time," Wilson says.

The Supreme Court has finished up three days of hearings on the federal health care law, so what's next? How will the justices reach a decision? Host Melissa Block talks to attorney and former Supreme Court clerk Chris Walker for a behind-the-scenes look at the nation's highest court.

The three-day marathon at the Supreme Court is over. Wednesday the justices heard the last round of arguments over President Obama's health care law. Unlike the last two days, there were sessions in the morning and afternoon. NPR's Ari Shapiro joins host Melissa Block live to discuss the final day of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

It's only the second quarterly loss since the firm went public 12 years ago.

Limited research on the health effects of indoor cookstoves and lack of affordable stoves and fuel has contributed to the problem of people getting sick and dying from indoor exposure to cooking smoke, say NIH Director Francis Collins and others.

There's a new DeLorean DMC-12 coming out — or rather, there's a new version of the stainless steel wedge of a sportscar that became an icon of '80s cool. But it won't run on gas — it'll be electric. And it won't require a nuclear reaction that generates 1.21 gigawatts, either.

Over a lifetime, our heads and necks receive a ton of exposure to the sun's UV rays. But most medical checkups don't include exhaustive exams of our hair and head. So public health researchers want to recruit hair stylists to help. It turns out, some of them are already performing informal skin cancer exams on clients.