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Elite athletes are turning to a cool new therapy to refresh exhausted muscles. The concept is similar to an ice bath, but the benefits, many athletes say, are far better.

Restaurants are introducing calorie counts on menus and smaller portions to help consumers make healthier choices. But some consumers think that limits choice, and nutrition experts say we need to change the culture, not the menu.

Presidential candidates need to report their third-quarter fundraising reports to the FEC by midnight tonight, and those figures are already saying a lot about which campaigns are healthy and which are faltering. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rebecca Roberts speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, about that story and others from the past week.

New campaign finance reports offer the first detailed look at the haves and the have-nots among the Republican presidential candidates. While some candidates are flush with cash, others are nearly broke. Meanwhile, the Obama fundraising effort is easily outstripping his prospective rivals.

Analysts say the Assad government appears to be relying exclusively on brutal repression, giving free reign to the security services to crush the revolt.

One of the brightest supernovas in the last century is now visible. Discovered shortly after its light reached Earth in August, the supernova will last for more than a decade.

Emerging from the shadow of the Washington Monument, civil rights groups marched to the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on Saturday. The crowd rallied on the eve of the new memorial's dedication, calling for jobs and economic justice.

The Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot has begun, and some are melding the observance with the various Occupy Wall Street protests throughout the country.

Sunday was World Food Day, an event intended to increase awareness of problems with global hunger. This year, a lot of people don't have enough to eat, but the cause is not the shortage of food, it's the price.

A lot of people are going out of their way to avoid gluten. Some have celiac disease, while others have some degree of gluten sensitivity. But the perception that a gluten-free diet is always a healthful diet isn't quite accurate.