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Susannah George of The Associated Press has details on the bombing in Baghdad, Iraq that left at least 121 people dead Sunday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

Dr Ali S. Khan's book, The Next Pandemic, takes us from doctor's offices in the Midwest to the "hot zones" of Africa. In the process, he explains how to think about the risk of migrating diseases.

The injured man, visiting from Virginia, was hurt on Sunday while walking through New York's Central Park, according to the NYPD. Police think the item was just intended to make noise.

Overall rates of the surgical snip have declined nationally in the past decade. But, despite advice, some hospitals and certain doctors still routinely cut the vagina to ease a baby's birth.

Ling Jihua, who had been a close aide to former President Hu Jintao, will not appeal the ruling, according to state media.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was pelted with rocks when he visited the site Sunday. The nation is now in three days of mourning.

They were earning a little less than $3.50 a day. Then their bonus was cut. They didn't trust their union to stand up for them. So they had only one choice.

Jason Galvin, a former Army sharpshooter in Afghanistan, saved a bald eagle that was caught hanging by a rope in Minnesota. Neighbors, who named the eagle "Freedom," watched as Galvin shot through the rope to let Freedom down.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with political reporter Sarah McCammon about a Donald Trump tweet that contained white supremacist imagery, and the backlash it received.

Alex Gibney's new documentary, Zero Days, looks at the Stuxnet worm — a cyber weapon developed by the U.S. and Israel. Gibney talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the film and the future of cyber warfare.