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NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's Madeleine Brand about services planned this week to honor late President Ronald Reagan.

Tarot card readers, spellcasters, psychics and other people selling supernatural services have been banned from using eBay to peddle their potions or other otherworldly goods and services.

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future generations.

In a statement, the White House said Randolph "Tex" Alles "has done a great job at the agency" and would be replaced by James M. Murray, a career Secret Service member, who will start in May.

Joseph Clancy was named director in 2014 by former President Obama to lead an agency in turmoil.

States struggling to meet their testing requirements under the No Child Left Behind act are increasingly struggling with scoring problems and testing delays. Officials say the problems stem from the limited number of companies that provide tests and testing services.

Few basic services have been restored to Iraq despite vigorous U.S. efforts to repair damage from the war and the years of economic sanctions that preceded the conflict. Normal life may be a year or more away. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Lt. Col. Sam Gardiner, retired.

Yoga instructor Dara Brown trains students at Columbia College and together they go out and try to help middle-school girls deal with the stresses of every day life.

Family, friends and U.S. and foreign dignitaries pay homage to President Ronald Reagan at a memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The 40th president will be buried Friday night at the Reagan presidential library in California. Former President George H.W. Bush spoke emotionally of his predecessor's warmth and humanity. President George W. Bush, who has used Reagan as a political model, lauded his economic and defense policies. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel.