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Cain is riding high in the polls — tying with, and in some cases outdistancing, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. And amid allegations of sexual harassment, the Republican presidential candidate's supporters are sticking by him. Still, he hasn't been able to break through with one group — black voters.

On 11/11/11 — and in honor of the Nigel Tufnel, the Spinal Tap guitarist whose amps went up to 11 — we've taken thousands of your nominations and compiled a list of songs that sound best turned up loud.

The new movie J. Edgar is directed by Clint Eastwood and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover who headed the FBI for 48 years. Hoover championed scientific crime fighting in general and the use of fingerprints in particular.

A law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill requires the government to assess the biological damage from big spills so fines can be fixed and damage paid for. The National Academy of Sciences has a report describing the methods and metrics of determining the "ecosystem services" that have been lost due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Penn State University's Board of Trustees holds an open board meeting Friday. Earlier this week, the board fired head football coach Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier. Two high-level administrators have been charged with failing to report alleged child sex abuse by a former coach.

In May 1915, a Canadian military doctor composed a poem that has come to symbolize this day. Take a moment to read it again.

While he linked to other sources and usually was thorough in making clear what were his words and what were coming from others, sometimes he didn't put quotation marks around others' words.

Giving children gum with xylitol, a sugar substitute, appears to reduce the risk of ear infections by 25 percent. But it takes a lot of chewing each day to achieve that result.

Tell Me More editor Ammad Omar and host Michel Martin comb through listener comments from the week's conversation surrounding the Texas judge who was caught on video hitting his daughter with a belt. Also, the program's coverage of protest music was a big hit, and there are updates on recent politics.

More soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds that would have been fatal a decade ago. The injuries have led to advances in combat medicine but have challenged the health care systems meant to help veterans back home. War reporter David Wood talks with Fresh Air about the hurdles facing these troops and their families.