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It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments — sudden epiphanies where everything comes together for you. But Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, says the great ideas of the past have taken a lot more hanging out than you'd expect.

A jury recommends a $9 million award in punitive damages to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx. The jury found that the drug manufacturer, Merck, failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians. The jury had already recommended $4.5 million in compensatory damages.

The super hero movie had a bigger opening weekend than the final Harry Potter film, which grossed $169.2 million.

The day the United States handed over sovereignty to Iraq's interim government, an Oregon National Guardsman witnessed Iraqi soldiers beating Iraqi prisoners. He and other guardsmen intervened, but were later ordered to return the prisoners to their Iraqi captors and walk away. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Mike Francis, who reports on the incident in The Oregonian.

Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, in an agreement made with the Federal Trade Commission that will end the U.S. agency's antitrust probe of the search and technology company.

The saying "Don't let the bedbugs bite" might have seemed like a thing of the past. The little blood-sucking critters were mostly eradicated in the 1940s, but they seem to be staging a creepy return, causing great discomfort among sleepers across the country.

For years, Julieta Venegas sprinkled traditional elements of northern Mexican music throughout her records. Her new album, Norteña, places the singer-songwriter's folkloric sensibilities front and center.

Some military doctors may have been complicit in the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq by U.S. personnel, according to a new article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Jay Lifton's article suggests medical staff may have failed to report wounds obviously resulting from torture, and may have falsified medical records. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Lifton.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks New York Times tech correspondent Mike Isaac about Sam Altman's testimony in the lawsuit brought by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk against OpenAI.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut about Pentagon spending on the U.S. war against Iran.

Glitter, vocal gymnastics, on-stage flames — the show goes on on the Eurovision stage in Vienna, even though five countries are boycotting this year's contest due to Israel's participation.

The CIA is holding top al Qaeda suspects in secret prison compounds in Eastern Europe as part of a string of so-called "black sites" set up after the Sept. 11 attacks, The Washington Post reported this week. Linda Wertheimer talks with Post reporter Dana Priest about the detention centers and the human rights concerns they have raised in Europe.