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American officials are encouraged by recent signs of reform in the country also known as Burma, but want to see if they're real and if they last.

The Federal Reserve and other central banks joined to make it easier for banks to lend — a bid to ease the financial crisis in Europe. Also: Great Britain tells Iranian diplomats to pack up.

Leading central banks around the world took coordinated moves Wednesday to provide more liquidity in the global financial system and calm rising fears in Europe over access to credit. As Europe's sovereign debt crisis worsens, bank lending has tightened, and nervous investors are reluctant to make loans to European banks.

Technologies like GPS and social media are posing new challenges to interpreting the Constitution's guarantees of privacy and free speech. Law professor and journalist Jeffrey Rosen says we're now in an era the Founding Fathers could never have imagined, in which private companies are determining the rules for what can be shared.

A man, now 29 years old, claims that as a boy he was sexually abused more than 100 times by the former Penn State assistant football coach. Sandusky has previously said he never sexually abused anyone.

One inspector says the Grain Processing Corp. plant in Muscatine, Iowa hasn't been complying with pollution limits for years and a lax regulation system has allowed for it.

In a hearing to determine whether to grant the man who shot President Ronald Reagan more freedom, prosecutors said Secret Service agents found Hinckley perused books on presidential assassinations.

TLC's new reality show, All-American Muslim follows five Muslim-American families. It aims to dispel misconceptions and stereotypes about the religion. In a recent piece in The Guardian, Wajahat Ali writes that TLC's portrayal is a "welcome relief from the usual tawdry caricatures of Muslims."

The software has been found on many popular phones, but the company that makes the software says it's used not to collect data but to troubleshoot problems.

Melissa Block and Guy Raz read emails from listeners about a report on Kentucky's Berea College, Melissa's remembrance of Vermont poet Ruth Stone, and the other person responsible for that mega-hit earworm "Moves Like Jagger."