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The White House said it would sidestep the Senate and appoint Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, while the Senate is out of town.

In the U.S., hospitalized heart attack patients go home sooner than in other countries. They are also more likely to return to the hospital within a month of being discharged.

Host Michel Martin and the Beauty Shop ladies discuss controversial requirements for Virginia's presidential primary ballot, Michele Bachmann's suspension of her presidential bid, sports-related concussions, and black divas hawking weight-loss products.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum finished virtually even in Iowa's caucuses Tuesday, but after Rep. Michele Bachmann's sixth-place finish, she announced Wednesday that she is suspending her campaign. For more on the GOP race and the next contest — Tuesday's New Hampshire primary — Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Brian Naylor, who's in the city of Manchester.

Traditional Mexican music, known as 'banda,' has been popular in Southern California for decades. And now, the tuba has gone from carrying the bass line in the back of the band, to stepping out front and leading dance trains. Host Michel Martin speaks with musician Jesse Tucker and Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones, who has been covering the tuba revolution.

The number of twins being born in the United States more than doubled between 1980 and 2009, federal statistics show.

Europe is Iran's second biggest client and U.S. sanctions have already battered the country's economy.

He was a key member of the legal team that convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw segregated public schools in 1954's landmark Brown v. the Board of Education decision.

A growing number of homeless children are participating — and being wounded — in clashes between protesters and soldiers in Egypt. Officials say the children are being paid to throw rocks and Molotov cocktails. But advocates say the children see the revolution as a way to escape their isolation from society.

Vardaman Elementary is about to become Mississippi's first predominantly Hispanic primary school, but it is still struggling to find teachers who can help its Spanish-speaking students adjust to the American classroom.