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Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian plans to buy 28 million more shares of General Motors stock through his private company, Tracinda Corp. The purchase would make Kerkorian one of GM's largest shareholders. Jerome Vaughn of Detroit Public Radio reports.

Denver restaurant critic Jason Sheehan has a passion for barbecue with all the homemade fixings on the side. He believes barbecue unites and comforts, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grill chief justice nominee John Roberts about his views on issues from cloning to discrimination. The morning session completed nearly 20 hours of testimony from Roberts over four days.

The announcement was widely expected and has broad support in the country: A recent poll showed that about three-quarters of all Finns support joining the military alliance.

Survivors and families of the 98 victims of the Surfside, Fla., condo collapse have reached a $997 million settlement. The payout was announced in a court hearing and still needs final approval.

NASA has placed a copper probe in the path of the comet called Tempel 1. Scientists await a collision that could produce a crater in the comet the size of a football stadium. But first, they have to hit the comet.

To toast an iconic album's 10th birthday, a conversation about listening while black — featuring Another Round host Tracy Clayton and writer/poet Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.

The Supreme Court rules that prison inmates have a constitutional right to not be put in Supermax prisons if it's not necessary. Supermax is an extremely restricted environment, with virtually no human contact. The High Court has approved Ohio's program of reviews for deciding whether a given inmate's crime is serious enough to merit such restrictive confinement.

Delta and Northwest may be the next major airlines to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Despite record numbers of travelers and labor cost concessions, the airlines are losing millions of dollars each day due to high fuel prices.

McConnell defends the Supreme Court's chance of issuing rulings in conflict with a majority of Americans' views on abortion rights — telling NPR it's a feature of the system.

The Senate has confirmed Jerome Powell to serve another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. It's a powerful job that puts Powell at the center of the fight to control inflation.

President Bush says Iraq's Sunni minority has a choice to make about the country's new draft constitution. Speaking in Idaho, the president said Sunnis could overcome their objections to the document proposed by Iraq's Shiites and Kurds and live in a democracy. The other option, Bush said, is to live in violence.

Italian magistrates are considering a British request for the extradition of a suspect in the July 21 attempted bombings in London. The suspect was arrested in Rome Friday after an international manhunt.

Discovery crew members begin the first of three space walks, a six-hour trip aimed at testing tools designed to repair damaged heat-shield tiles. Veteran spacewalker Dr. Scott Parazynski offers his insights on Saturday's exercise.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin discusses racial tensions in the city post-Katrina after Latino workers flocked to the city for the cleanup and rebuilding process. He says he expects New Orleans to remain majority African-American, but that it will have to adjust to shifting racial demographics.

Money for the program came from $1.4 billion allocated to Florida by the U.S. Department of the Treasury last year.

Harvard University will spend $50 million over the next decade to promote diversity on its faculty and make changes in the way women in science and engineering are treated. University President Lawrence Summers has been criticized for theorizing that differences between the sexes may explain why so few women work in the academic sciences.

Israel's highest court has rejected a bid by Jewish settlers to halt Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw settlements from the Gaza Strip in August. The court challenge was the last legal obstacle to the pullout, which will affect 1,700 families.

The spending bill passed by the House Thursday includes a requirement to show four types of ID when you arrive at the local department of motor vehicles. In places that already have this regulation, the process can be a bit more challenging.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is coming up on three months with no end in sight. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana about the alliance's objectives in Ukraine.

Bradford Berenson is a lawyer who served in the White House counsel's office and helped form policy on the capture and imprisonment of detainees. He argues that the Guantanamo Bay detention center should stay open.

A new $30 one-time-use camcorder goes on sale at CVS stores. Melissa Block talks to USA Today technology reporter Jefferson Graham about the camera's advantages and shortcomings.

Heid suggested that none of the 16 books be removed from the system, but also said that some should be pulled from — or added to — certain grade levels.

In New York City, designer Rodney Leon and AARRIS Architects have been chosen to build a $3-million permanent memorial on the site of a Colonial-era burial ground for African slaves. But the controversy that has surrounded the project since the gravesite was discovered in 1991 continues.

Photographer and filmmaker Gregory Colbert has traveled the world photographing encounters between humans and large animals. His exhibit "Ashes and Snow" has found a similarly distinctive display area. The Nomadic Museum, now in Manhattan, is designed to be portable.