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The bodies of hundreds of children were recently discovered left behind a former Irish home for unmarried mothers. Alison O'Reilly of The Irish Mail broke the story, and she speaks with Robert Siegel.

A yellow lab traveled 60 miles to her family's old house in Lawson, Mo., — they had moved out in 2018. The new residents came home to find Cleo on the porch. She's been reunited with her family.

Many local public health leaders have become targets of angry social media campaigns, protests outside their homes and even death threats.

Justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a Rhode Island domestic violence case where police seized a man's guns in his home without a warrant.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by Intuit, maker of the personal finance management software Quicken, to introduce a new form of computer software that will make it easier to do banking from home. Intuit already has nine million customers who've embraced the Quicken software, and they're hoping to attract customers who may have never used the technology that's now becoming available for banking by computer or who are too afraid to even try.

Owen Bennett-Jones reports from Geneva that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has pressured Balkan leaders into a new agreement. The Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia have agreed to protect the rights of voters during the Bosnian elections next month. They promised to apprehend war criminals and assure refugees the right to return to home...and in an agreement to be signed tomorrow in Sarajevo, the Bosnian government turns over power to a federation of Bosnian Croats and Muslims.

Northern California is bracing for another winter storm that could bring more precipitation to an area still recovering from the effects of heavy rains and severe flooding. In the Central Valley, officials are worried the rain could cause swollen rivers to break through levees already weakened by the earlier storms. The Red Cross is re-opening shelters and stocking up on food, blankets, and medicine in case more people are forced from their homes by high water. Ancel (AHN-sel) Martinez of member station KQED in San Francisco reports.

NPR's Joanne Silberner looks at a program for breast cancer patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital which sends the patient home immediately following a mastectomy... on the same day as the procedure. The U.S. Congress and some state legislatures are threatening to force insurance companies to cover 48 hours of hospital care for the surgery. The patients at Johns Hopkins like the short-stay program. Doctors say care can not be legislated. But other surgeons worry that not all hospitals will provide a program as wonderful as the one in place at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the continuing effort by defense attorneys to suppress evidence gathered by investigators in the first two days after the Oklahoma City bombing. Defendant Terry Nichols's attorney is arguing that a nine-hour interrogation of his client in a Kansas jailhouse was improper and should be thrown out. Testimony today focuses on whether authorities had authority to search Nichols's home, where an agent spotted plastic barrels similar to ones used in the bombing.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the Taleban militia, which now controls about two-thirds of Afghanistan, today criticized the decision by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to suspend relief operations in Kabul. U-N-H-C-R said several members of its local staff have been arrested and Afghan women employees have been told to stay at home since the Taleban captured Kabul nearly two months ago.