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Questioning earlier this week suggested the health care law's mandate might be in peril. Today, the Supreme Court considered whether other parts of the law could still stand if the mandate falls. "It looked today that if there are five votes to strike down the mandate, there might be five votes to strike down the whole law," said NPR's Nina Totenberg.

The Tulsa Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its chimpanzees, “Alvin”. An altercation broke out Saturday between the 20-year-old Alvin and the other…

Tracy Martin is convinced that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman racially profiled his son. The teen's Feb. 26 shooting has ignited a national discussion of race relations.

Despite broad international support, the peace plan is in flux. Opposition groups believe that President Bashar Assad is just trying to buy time.

Amnesty International says more than 150 opposition activists have been arrested.

In the new biography Hitler, A.N. Wilson describes the Nazi dictator as the "Demon King of history" but also as an ordinary and even boring man. "Many of the ideas that he had and expressed ... were ideas that more or less everybody had at that time," Wilson says.

Though he insists he's not suspending his run, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich announced he's cutting his staff and shifting his campaign strategy. NPR's Ken Rudin and veteran campaign manager Chip Saltsman discuss the decisions candidates face when a win seems unlikely.

The three-day marathon at the Supreme Court is over. Wednesday the justices heard the last round of arguments over President Obama's health care law. Unlike the last two days, there were sessions in the morning and afternoon. NPR's Ari Shapiro joins host Melissa Block live to discuss the final day of Supreme Court arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

Parents said they believe a better grade school education will put their kids on a path to a better college.

Adrienne Rich was best known for her poetry, which mirrored the times in which she wrote. It grew increasingly political during the 1960s and '70s — and she was a touchstone for the feminist movement. Host Melissa Block speaks with Linda Gregerson, a poet, critic and English professor at the University of Michigan.