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Heat wave researcher Dr. Gulrez Shah Azhar grew up in Uttar Pradesh, India, where temps would hit 120 degrees. He did not have an A/C unit. He shares tips on dealing with the record heat of 2023.

On the trail in Indiana, Sen. Barack Obama seeks to get his campaign message back on track. He has been mired in the controversy over remarks by his outspoken former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The Federal Reserve has cut a key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, seeking to stem the flow of bad news surrounding the U.S. economy. The action pushes the federal funds rate down to 2 percent — the lowest level since late 2004.

"Never leave a Marine behind." That tradition began in 1775, and continues today via officers like Col. Steve Beck, whose job it is to notify families of the loss of a loved one. Beck — and the families he contacted — is the subject of journalist Jim Sheeler's book Final Salute. Sheeler (pictured) and Beck talk to Terry Gross about a duty that's both an honor and a burden.

Thousands of Burmese-Americans are having trouble contacting their loved ones after the cyclone that hit Myanmar this weekend. Zauya Lahpai, pastor of the Burmese Christian Community Church in Silicon Valley, discusses his failed efforts.

About 5 percent of patients are unhappy with the results of their Lasik procedure. Some cite lack of information about possible results to be key. The FDA is beginning a Lasik study and wants to hear from those who are dissatisfied.

Mildred Loving, a black woman who married a white man in 1958, when interracial unions were banned in Virginia, died last week. The couple's case made it to the Supreme Court, which overturned the Virginia ban in 1967.

House Democratic leaders have a plan to add unemployment benefits and education funding for veterans to President Bush's war funding bill.

Three New York City police officers charged in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell are acquitted of all charges Friday. The undercover police officers fired 50 shots at Bell and two of his friends as they left a club on the morning of what was to be Bell's wedding day. The victims were all unarmed.

Speaking at a White House news conference Tuesday, the president says Congress has blocked his solutions to the nation's economic and energy problems.