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Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Ben Taub, who has a piece in The New Yorker, about why the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek has been a center for radical terrorists in recent years.

With contractions four and five minutes apart, Nicole Veum started to see and smell smoke at a Santa Rosa, Calif., hospital.

The White House announced Tuesday that President Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve Wednesday. She would replace Ben Bernanke, who's stepping down from the post. Yellen has been the presumptive nominee for weeks, after Lawrence Summers announced his intention to remove himself from the running in September. She'd be the first woman to head the Fed.

Last week, high school freshman Jackie Kantor and her younger sister Melissa had an idea: they wanted to give displaced children new backpacks. More than 2,000 backpacks have been collected for kids who lost all their other possessions in Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. cross-country skiers Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher power to a silver medal in the men's team sprint. U.S. women led by Jessie Diggins finish off the podium.

In this chilling dystopian novel by Ben Marcus, the speech of children begins poisoning adults, and a married couple must consider abandoning their teenage daughter to save themselves.

In fiction, Ann Beattie channels first lady Pat Nixon, while Ben Marcus looks at the consequences of nasty rhetoric, and Jonathan Odell imagines a slave healer's life. In nonfiction, the creators of Portlandia offer a guided tour of Portland, Ore., and Ellen Forney reflects on her bipolar disorder.

The Night of the Hunter is a much-loved film, but author Julia Keller says the book it is based on is even better — a forgotten masterpiece. Do you have a favorite book that became a movie? Tell us in the comments.

Senate Republicans are threatening to dump the filibuster for judicial nominees -- an option Democrats have been using to block some of President Bush's more controversial judicial nominees. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), who is trying to craft a bipartisan compromise that would save the filibuster, discusses the debate.

August is a busy month of statewide primaries. Five states hold primaries on Tuesday. In Arizona, there are key races for governor, Congress, attorney general and secretary of state.