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U.S. and Iraqi forces move against insurgents in the area known as the "triangle of death," south of Baghdad. U.S. commanders say they need to press into neighborhoods where rebels have taken refuge. Iraq's defense minister has signaled that another offensive is planned for the capital itself. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

A new high-tech soccer ball might make things a little easier for the referees. It could end second-guessing that arises when a ball barely crosses the goal line. A German firm has put a transmitter in the center of the ball, which send signals to a computer for precise tracking of the ball.

Researchers argue that radio signals are not the most efficient way of alerting an extraterrestrial intelligence to our existence. The scientists recommend sending, and searching for, an interstellar message in a bottle. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

Federal Reserve officials signaled on Wednesday that they will likely wind down their program known as quantitative easing in October, according to minutes released from their June policy meeting.

"I cannot say the happiness I have," the husband of a woman rescued from the rubble told The Associated Press. He says she is eight months pregnant. The collapse killed some three dozen people.

Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

The California Department of Public Health has identified 62 potential cases since late June of acute lung disease in people with a recent history of vaping.

He had been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne, Australia, two decades ago. He is 77 and will be eligible for parole in three years and eight months.

If summer's a time for bugs, the firefly is a classic. But all is not so light and happy with the light-up creature: "Femme fatales" from one species actually lure males of other species to eat them.

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pontiff should be.