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NPR's Vicky Que reports High School biology teachers are attending summer classes to study the human genome project. They want to stay current with all of the latest developments in order to teach it next Fall.

Commentator Mary Sojourner attempts to come to terms with the shooting death of a policeman in Flagstaff, Arizona. Unwilling to rely on standard responses to the usual questions of how and why this happens, she raises a few of her own.

The Justice Department is seeking to temporarily stop enforcement of the new Texas law that effectively bans most abortions in the state. The department is already suing to block the law altogether.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the gymnasts, who had testified at a Senate Judiciary hearing, he was "deeply and profoundly sorry that so many people let you down over and over again."

Pfizer says data supports its request for Food and Drug Administration approval of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine about six months after the second dose in people 16 years and older.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about this week's political events. With turmoil in the Middle East, how will the U.S presidential candidates deal with the issue of foreign policy as it relates to the campaign?

The federal government is continuing to decide how it will rename bases across the U.S. named after Confederate service members, a mandate included in the defense bill approved by Congress in January.

The U.S. Soccer Federation is offering the men's and women's senior national teams the same pay structure, years after the women's team filed a major lawsuit over equal pay concerns.

Annie Cheney reports on one of the few urban therapeutic riding programs in the country. Once a week, several disabled New Yorkers meet at the Claremont Riding Stable for an hour of physical therapy on horseback. For some, it's a chance to move without wheelchairs...for others, it's a chance to re-connect physically with the world.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that public health officials in New Jersey are taking precautions to protect residents of the state against the spread of West Nile virus, which is carried by mosquitoes. The disease is spread from birds, such as crows, to humans, who may or may not be aware they've been infected. Symptoms range from headaches to coma, and, in some cases the virus can be deadly.