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Massive flooding in the Midwest has inundated homes and towns across Iowa. Flood waters are moving south. Co-host Steve Inskeep talks to Ron Fournier, public affairs officer for the Army Corps of Engineers, about the pumps, reservoirs and levees that usually keep the flood waters back.

A group of mothers build shrines on the Arlington National Cemetery graves of their sons killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ribbons in the trees, photographs leaning up against the stones and wind chimes keep the memories of their sons alive.

Pope Benedict is visiting the United States for the first time as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. R. Scott Appleby, a professor of religious history at the University of Notre Dame, says the pope's message to America's "Cafeteria Catholics" will likely be a positive one, rather than focusing on differences with the Vatican.

Barack Obama's speech in Missouri on Monday was meant not only to defend his own patriotism but also to control the damage from comments retired Gen. Wesley Clark made about John McCain's military service.

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.)

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Angela Maske of Advocates for Youth about the FDA's approval of Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill.

Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating.

Beloit, Wis., resident Joan Salzberg, discovered a green-breasted mango hummingbird feeding in her backyard. The bird is rarely, if ever, seen north of Mexico. It had clearly lost its way. Thanks to a concerted rescue effort — just in time for winter — the little hummer now calls a Chicago zoo home.

As Kosovo's future remains in doubt, the city of Mitrovica, the province's most divided community, is noticeably tense. Members of the Serbian community say they can't live in an independent Kosovo under majority Albanian rule. Albanians driven from the north say they want to return to their homes.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story riffs on the spate of recent movies that seem to stick to a formula: young man with a miserable childhood gets married too young, develops a drug problem and gets a recording career that reflects the ups and downs of his life.