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In 1893, the mayor of Chicago was shot and killed in his home. That murder inspired a local priest, Brother Casimir Zeglen, to invent an early bulletproof vest. Historian Paul Collins rediscovered the forgotten inventor and tells Scott Simon the details.

The U.S. and Great Britain are at odds on how to proceed with debt relief for the world's poorest nations. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair both want to wipe out the debts of African nations. But that's where agreement ends.

During an earlier speech in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia, President Bush said that America played a role in the suffering of Eastern Europe following World War II. He blamed concessions made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 1945 Yalta summit. Host Steve Inskeep talks to Daniel Hamilton of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies about the history behind the President Bush's unexpected comments.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with editor in chief of The Texas Tribune Sewell Chan about the Texas GOP's convention over the weekend, which was rife with anger and conspiracy theories.

Vijay Gupta was a 19-year-old violin prodigy when he joined the LA Philharmonic. Now he runs Street Symphony, an organization bringing music to clinics, jails and homeless shelters on Skid Row.

Internet sleuths are using publicly available information — satellite imagery, videos, social media — to reveal secrets.

More than half of the world's Muslims live along the latitude line 700 miles north of the equator — so do most of the world's Christians. It's a place where ideological conflicts often arise. Journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years examining how the two religions influence clashes over natural resources, tribal issues and faith.

The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.

The beloved children's TV shows are adding diverse new characters that reflect real people more fully. On Thomas & Friends, child actors with autism will voice the new character, Bruno the Brake Car.

If you panic every time you're asked to "say a few words," former White House speechwriter Mary Kate Cary is here to help. For nervous public speakers, she recommends three books to load onto your e-readers — full of sound advice and quotable anecdotes — so you'll never be tongue-tied again.