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The White House Conference on Aging is meeting in Washington this week. But President Bush is skipping the conference -- the first president not to address delegates in the event's 50-year history. Instead, he took his message on Medicare to a select, private group of senior citizens.

In New York Diaries, editor Teresa Carpenter presents 400 years of diary excerpts written by people who've lived in or just passed through one of the greatest cities in the world.

They're also expected to discuss air traffic control reform, and possibly Trump's travel ban, at their meeting with the president on Thursday morning.

Actor Robert Morse, who leaped to Broadway stardom in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" and retained his impish charm through six decades of showbiz, died this week at age 90.

Investigators in Texas have found the largest wildfire in the state's history was "ignited by power lines." Experts say many utilities aren't doing enough to reduce the fire threat from power lines.

"It would be so much more convenient if the earthquake would send us an email in advance with all the details of its arrival," a fearful Lucas told his mother, a journalist.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with CBS News' Steve Futterman about former football star and acquitted murder suspect O.J. Simpson.

Ten-year-old Charlie Edwards got a jump start on his paleontology career when he noted a mistaken label at the Natural History Museum in London.

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.

In Dancing Fish And Ammonites, the British writer reflects on growing older. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about adjusting to her husband's death and losing the desire for new things.