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The youth groups that were so crucial to the overthrow of Mubarak feel "they may have lost the revolution," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Cairo.

The Associated Press Stylebook is the media's go-to guide for things like grammar and punctuation, and it's often revised to keep up with vernacular. Its 2012 edition includes a chapter on fashion, and in a Twitter chat this week the AP declared "jeggings" an OK word for the trendy hybrid of leggings and jeans. It added that "jorts" is not an OK term for jean shorts.

Thirteen people died and another 6,000 were injured in the attack on Tokyo's subways by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Katsuya Takahashi was on the run for 17 years. He allegedly helped one of the attackers flee.

Summer dust storms that blow through Phoenix have a funny name — haboobs — but they can be deadly. This summer, Arizona's transportation officials turned to poetry in their safety campaign, encouraging Twitter users to tweet haikus. This one came from Mindy Lee: "Haboobs blow through town / In one instant it is dark / Pull over and wait."

The head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria said Friday that there appears to be a "lack of willingness" on the government and anti-government sides to see a peaceful transition in the country.

Senator Jeff Bingaman is sponsoring legislation to establish national historical parks in Los Alamos and the two other key sites where the atomic bomb was…

The Obama administration announced Friday morning that it would offer immunity and work permits to some young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives.

U.S. Catholic bishops are wrapping up their annual meeting in Atlanta. They vowed to continue fighting the Obama administration over contraceptive health coverage. Plus, ten years after sexual abuse scandals were revealed, the bishops assessed whether they're doing enough to protect children. Host Michel Martin speaks with two religion reporters.

The debate over news leaks bubbled up again this week after reports that The New York Times relied on information from top-tier and unnamed U.S. officials to reveal details about the U.S. cyberbattle against Iran. On the 40th anniversary of Watergate, here's a look at the "pressure valves of democracy."

The number of American cancer survivors will increase from 13.7 million in January 2012 to nearly 18 million in January 2022, according to a report from the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.