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NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca recently visited Cambodia where it's estimated that 70 percent of the men smoke cigarettes, including Buddhist monks. Palca meets with a physician, whose work with Buddhist monks has led to smoking cessation for a large part of that population, and it's affecting local Cambodians as well.

The World Bank's international board of directors approves Paul Wolfowitz as the bank's next president. Wolfowitz is now undersecretary of defense and was an architect of the war in Iraq.

According to the International Women's Media Foundation, "no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice." For the last 15 years, the organization has honored women who have lent their voices to media coverage of some of the world's most critical issues. One of this year's honorees is veteran broadcast journalist Belva Davis, who became the first black woman TV reporter on the West Coast in 1966. She speaks with NPR's Tavis Smiley.

The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty for juveniles. The court's decision, on a 5-to-4 vote, forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. The ruling means that more than 70 death-row inmates will not be executed in different states.

NPR's Juan Williams analyzes the political battle in the Senate over who might replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Slate's Mark Joseph Stern writes that in Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings last month, Republicans showed that they're moving beyond abortion rights — the issue that's been at the heart of Supreme Court nomination fights for decades.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Fred Kagan of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute about U.S. intelligence in the war in Ukraine.

To celebrate National Poetry Month we're introducing listeners to poets competing to be the next National Youth Poet Laureate. First up: Alyssa Gaines, who's the Indianapolis Youth Poet Laureate.

The bill would make performing an abortion a felony except in a medical emergency. It's the latest state to restrict abortions, as a Supreme Court decision that could upend Roe v. Wade is awaited.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona about the extension on the student loan pause. Also, roughly 7 million borrowers who are in default right now will get a fresh start.