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A Connecticut judge has approved a rare request from the state's child welfare agency: to move a transgender teen to adult prison, even though she has not been charged with a crime.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Jane Ferguson, a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, regarding the situation at the airport in Kabul, where a firefight broke out.

The Israeli military says it is approved an offensive in Lebanon if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the conflict that’s contained, for the most part, in Israel’s north and Lebanon’s south for now.

Fighting has escalated at the Israeli-Lebanese border. Israeli strikes killed nearly 500 people largely in southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese health officials.

Britain's proposed exit deal with the E.U. includes the end of "free movement." This might mean tighter control of Britain's borders, but it will also limit the ability of British citizens to live and work in 27 European countries.

NPR international correspondent Jane Arraf shares a scene that never made it into a piece but has stuck with her since she taped it: a dumballa, or bingo, hall in Mosul, Iraq.

She really can talk to the animals. Or at least the chimps. JANE GOODALL reflects on over 30 years in the company of one community of chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania. Goodall has co-written the new book, "Visions of Caliban" (Houghton Mifflin). REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4

Film critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "Coneheads," the latest Saturday Night Live-inspired movie. It stars Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd.

Robert Siegel talks to Christopher Floss, editor of Jane's Land Based Air-Defense - a book on military weapons. Floss talks about speculation that a surface to air missiles was responsible for the downing of TWA flight 800. He says that although it would be very difficult for soemone to obtain a surface to air missile, and its use requires very special training-- it is possible.

A deep sea robot has found the Japanese fishing boat that was ripped apart by a US submarine last week. This week, the navy revealed that civilians were at the helm of the USS Greenville at the time of the accident. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with editor Paul Beaver of Jane's Defense Weekly about the practice of allowing civilians to observe manuevers on a military sub.