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A top EPA official resigned Thursday over the handling of the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Mich. The role of the EPA and whether the federal agency should have done more has been a recurring theme in White House discussions this week.

When the remaining GOP candidates debate Saturday, several will be making their last pitch for why they should stay in the race. Meanwhile, Donald Trump returns after skipping an Iowa debate.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Julian Borger, author of The Butcher's Trail, about the trial of Bosnian war criminal Radovan Karadzic which ended this week in The Hague.

The renowned Spanish museum has made 3-D copies of some of its most iconic works to allow blind people to feel them.

Coca-Cola is funding a new nonprofit that blames obesity on lack of exercise, not on bad diets. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Anahad O'Connor of The New York Times about the group's controversial message.

It's off-season in the world of big-league sports, but NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to correspondent Tom Goldman about the sports we might overlook during the rest of the year.

Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together, and to write an original poem about the news. This month, our NewsPoet is Tess Taylor.

The ongoing European debt crisis is expected to pose major challenges to the next U.S. administration.

China's ruling Communist Party has announced that disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the party and faces criminal charges. His fall began when a local police chief told authorities about the murder of a British businessman.

The country's top admiral says his forces can easily close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, where up to 20 percent of the world's oil flows. In response, the U.S. warns that any disruption at the strait "will not be tolerated." And a Saudi official says Gulf Arab nations are ready to offset any loss of Iranian crude.