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Egypt and French officials offer condolences to families. Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and H.A. Hellyer at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council.

The Pentagon admits a major concern over reprisals against troops who report sexual assault. A Human Rights Watch report says the Pentagon isn't doing enough to repair harm done by this retaliation.

Egyptair flight MS804 vanished Thursday en route to Cairo from Paris. Mary Louise Kelly talks to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and Russell Lewis as well as Tamer El-Ghobashy of The Wall Street Journal.

Nicholas Winton arranged safe passage from Czechoslovakia for more than 600 Jewish children on the eve of World War II. Winton died last year at 106. A memorial is being held Thursday in London.

A community meeting is Wednesday evening in DeBary on a 100-acre stretch of conservation land that is stirring controversy.City leaders want to develop the land, and to help them they have hired the consulting firm of the chairman of the St. Johns River Water Management District, which owns the land.

Some insurers continue to sell coverage to individuals on the open market even after deciding to exit the health law's marketplaces.

They have the technology. Now they need the money. The Science Museum has launched a Kickstarter campaign to rebuild Eric, who wowed audiences after he was created in 1928 — and then vanished.

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee says genetics play a significant role in identity, temperament, sexual orientation and disease risk — but that environment also matters. His new book is The Gene.

Biologist Justin Schmidt has traveled all over the world looking for bugs ... and getting stung by them. He documents his travels/travails in his new book The Sting of the Wild.

For Pascal Baudar, LA is a treasure trove of edible plants and insects that he uses in unusual culinary creations. He helps some of the city's top chefs put wild foods on menus and has a new cookbook.