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A Senate committee looked at the failure of HSBC bank to police money laundering.

More than 150 people across more than 20 states have fallen ill after being exposed to cucumbers that were possibly contaminated with salmonella, the CDC said Wednesday. No deaths have been reported.

A new study finds that as poor countries become wealthier, it becomes harder for citizens to purchase basic medicines at affordable prices.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that a small company in North Carolina is pioneering a new approach in its attempt to develop a vaccine against AIDS. Scientists have tapped public money and a charity, as well as venture capital, to move an intriguing idea from the laboratory toward the marketplace. Untraditional approaches like this seem to be needed to surmount the many technical and practical difficulties in developing an AIDS vaccine.

Dennis Banks, co-founder of the radical American Indian Movement, remains a respected voice of authority in the Native American community. However, at age seventy, he has decided to retire from the world of political activism and pursue opportunites in the marketplace. From South Dakota Public Radio, Brian Bull reports.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the continuing delay in signing the accord for an Israeli pullout from Hebron. Questions are being raised in Israel about the policies that allowed a man of proven instability into the Israeli army. Yesterday, an off-duty member of the Israeli army fired his army-issued rifle at Palestinians in the city marketplace, in hopes of sidetracking the peace process.

At least 47 people are killed and scores more injured when a car bomb explodes in a crowded Baghdad marketplace. Elsewhere, 11 Iraqi policemen and their driver are killed in a drive-by shooting, and saboteurs blow up an oil pipeline. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon.

Coming of age can also mean a whopping 58 percent jump in the cost of your insurance. Shop carefully to pick a plan that strikes the right balance between benefits and cost.

Many Oklahomans will see health insurance rate hikes unless Congress extends expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits. Rural residents will be hit hardest, according to a researchers from the Oklahoma Policy Institute.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Greg Allen and former homeland security official Juliette Kayyem about the shooting and the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, founding director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, about vaccine surpluses in the U.S. and what might be done with extra doses.

While it may seem that heaps of plastic from meal kit delivery services make them less environmentally friendly than traditional grocery shopping, a new study suggests that's not necessarily true.