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Long before James Prosek became a world-famous artist and naturalist, he was a kid who used art as a way to work through the ups and downs of childhood. "When I went into the woods, it was the first time that I felt like something was mine," he says.

Politicians in Kenya have reached an agreement aimed at ending the country's political crisis. Kenya was thrown into turmoil after a disputed election late last year sparked widespread violence that left more than 1,000 people dead.

AIDS adds to an orphan crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet concerns from trafficking to cultural differences make it hard for outsiders to adopt. The story of two children in Nigeria illustrates the issue.

U.S. Marines in Iraq surrounding the embattled city of Fallujah are allowing women, children and the elderly to flee the fighting with militia forces -- but will not allow military-aged men to leave. The Marines are also allowing food, water and medicine to enter the city, but have turned away trucks full of men also trying to enter the city. Eric Niiler of member station KPBS, embedded with the 1st Marine Division, reports.

Rave — created by kids, for kids in the 1990s — flourished on the Internet and mirrored its rise.

Here's a copy of the President's "Win the Future" speech at Northern Michigan University today:Hello, Marquette! It is good to be in the U.P. It is good…

The confounding title of the self-referential novel Percival Everett by Virgil Russell signals its method, which seeks to erase lines between author and subject, reality and fiction. For Alan Cheuse, Percival Everett's (or is that Percival Everett's?) postmodern mind games spoil what might have been a fine novel.

Since coming ashore Thursday, Hurricane Ivan has killed at least 40 people in the United States. In the hardest hit Gulf States of Alabama and Florida, more than a million people remain without power. In Mobile, Ala., even water and ice are scarce. Hear NPR's Ari Shapiro.

Melissa Block reports from Gulfport, Miss., on the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and on the efforts to help those whose homes have been destroyed.

Pretrial hearings resume Monday for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of helping plot the Sept. 11 attacks. There will be two competing narratives in the courtroom, however, with the prosecution focusing on the attacks, and the defense stressing the defendants' treatment after they were captured.