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A single irrigation district in California, along the Mexican border, takes more water from the Colorado River than all of Arizona and Nevada. It's under pressure to use less.

Doctors, pharmacists and frontline health workers have created a safety net for active drug users in Ottawa Canada that aims to slow the rate of fatal overdoses by helping people get high more safely.

Edward Enninful grew up in Ghana, assisting his mother in her dressmaking shop. "For me, fashion was always such an inclusive, beautiful thing," he says. His memoir is A Visible Man.

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a journalist and adjunct fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank promoting the role of religion in domestic and foreign policy issues. In her new book God on the Quad, she explores the rise of religious colleges in America.

Tom Ricks, a reporter for the Washington Post and author of the book Fiasco, says he's seen a persistent disconnect between U.S. strategy and U.S. tactics in Iraq. Ricks tells Steve Inskeep that the current U.S. strategy is being undermined by questionable tactics.

David Greene talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro to find out what President Obama has doing with the information regarding the Boston Marathon Case. And, Joseph Shapiro talks to Maret Tsarnaeva, of Toronto, who says she is the aunt of the two bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

NPR's Tom Gjelten has an update for Morning Edition listeners on the Boston Marathon bombing Case. Steve Inskeep also talks to Robin Young, host of Here & Now from member station WBUR, about one of the bombing suspects.

For decades, the U.S. medical system has adhered to a legally recognized standard for death, one embraced by most states. Why is a uniform standard for the start of human life proving so elusive?

Satellite images and social media analyzed by NPR show attacks have hit structures around the plant, coming dangerously close to causing a nuclear disaster.

Melodrama is essential to any American soap opera, and the same holds true for their Chinese counterparts. Rachel DeWoskin talks about her role as an aggressive Westerner in a Chinese daytime drama, and her new book, Foreign Babes in Beijing.