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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits the Iraqi capital, arriving shortly after another suicide bombing in northern Iraq. The attacker killed himself and at least 10 others when he detonated explosives in a car outside a police station in the northern city of Kirkuk. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Ivan Watson.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks to NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts about what the two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to look forward to on Super Tuesday, and whether Sen. John Edwards has a shot to gain momentum on frontrunner John Kerry.

Voters headed to the polls Tuesday for statewide primaries in Ohio and Indiana. In Ohio, an open Senate contest has top billing.

Hunt-Broersma picked up the sport after her left leg was amputated below the knee in 2001 and people told her she couldn't run. She set out to prove them wrong and never looked back.

It's not that there are too many bad shows. It's that there are too many perfectly fine ones. That has implications for jobs in Hollywood.

Tuesday's top race is in Ohio, where voters are set to pick nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. Redistricting has also affected some of the state's closely watched House races.

Even the savviest Medicare drug plan shoppers can get a shock when they fill prescriptions: That great deal on medications in fall is no bargain after prices go up as much as 8% by winter.

Trump endorsed Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose ahead of Ohio's primaries on Tuesday. LaRose told NPR in January that candidates not conceding was a "really dangerous thing."

Indiana was one of two states holding primaries Tuesday. Find results for federal races here.

Director Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye, Lenin, follows the efforts of a young man who transforms his family's apartment into an island of the past on doctor's orders. The time-capsule measures are meant to shield his socialist mother -- recently recovered from a coma -- from traumatic events. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Becker.

The Federal Reserve is expected to approve its largest interest rate hike in more than two decades this week. Additional rate increases are likely, as the Fed tries to regain control over inflation.

A Japanese chemist identified umami in the early 1900s, but it took a century for his work to be translated into English. NPR's Short Wave podcast looked into why it took so long to be recognized.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Jacky Hunt-Broersma, an amputee ultra-marathoner who just broke a record for running 104 marathons in 104 days.

The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.

An international panel says the United States should take further steps to protect consumers from mad cow disease. The panel, convened by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recommends increased testing of cattle in addition to placing stricter limits on components of feed for cattle and other livestock. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

President Bush is expected to name a nine-member commission Friday charged with comparing the pre-war intelligence on Iraq with information learned since. On Thursday, CIA director George Tenet vigorously defended his agency's work, hours before a Senate panel began reviewing a draft report of its own probe into Iraq intelligence. Hear NPR's David Welna.

The war in Ukraine has exacerbated inflation in the Middle East, where countries rely on Russia and Ukraine for imported wheat.

In Michigan, election administrators are preparing for the possibility of new poll workers who believe President Trump's lies about a stolen election.

Some political strategists believe that the nation’s most sparsely-populated places could determine who wins the White House in November. Some 55 million people live in rural towns and counties, which cover 80 percent of the landscape. It is as a dispersed but potent political force.

Seven Democrats are still in the running for the party's presidential nomination, and they'll be competing in seven different state contests Tuesday. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts leads in many polls after early victories in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Adam Hochberg.

Roughly 10 percent of the delegates needed for the Democratic nomination are in play between Saturday and Tuesday, starting with caucuses in Michigan and Washington. Sen. John Kerry hopes to build on his lead. Sen. John Edwards and retired Gen. Wesley Clark are vying to become Kerry's chief rival. Former Vermont governor Howard Dean is pinning his fading hopes on the Feb. 17 Wisconsin primary. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Scott Horsley.

This past week, former U.S. weapons investigator David Kay told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction before last year's war. Kay also called for an investigation into U.S. intelligence in Iraq. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean makes an online entreaty for $700,000 to fund advertising in Wisconsin, calling the state's Feb. 17 primary a "must win." Dean's candidacy has suffered since he took an early lead in polls, building support and a large war chest by relying on the Internet and the ardent support of his campaign workers. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Dean.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports from Seattle on the efforts of the Democratic presidential candidates and their campaign staff to get out the vote in Washington state's caucuses Saturday. A record turnout is expected and Sen. John Kerry has been gaining momentum there.

Washington, D.C.'s Earth Conservation Corps is a non-profit organization with a mission to recruit a few dozen young men and women in the community to clean up and restore their own neighborhood. But there's one hitch: It's one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports.