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After winning the most seats in Pakistan's general election, the party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is putting together a coalition that could restore the judges President Pervez Musharraf sacked last year. The judges, in turn, could throw Musharraf out of office.

Boeing lost a lucrative aircraft contract Friday with the U.S. military. The $40 billion deal was instead awarded to a consortium of businesses that includes Boeing's chief rival, European-owned Airbus. Europeans reacted with glee over the prospect of new jobs and an economic boost.

As Russians vote in their Presidential election Sunday, current President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is the all-but-certain winner. But opposition leaders condemn the vote as a Soviet-style ritual that could leave Putin holding on to power from behind the scenes.

Congress is asking the Justice Department to investigate whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied under oath when he testified about performance-enhancing drugs before a House committee two weeks ago.

Russia will soon have a new president, and it appears it will be Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor. Analyst Masha Lipman of the Moscow Carnegie Center says that despite recent liberal-sounding rhetoric, Medvedev will likely maintain the status quo.

Ohio's vote in Tuesday's primary will be crucial, but there could be a delay in getting results. The state is making major changes in the way its residents cast ballots, especially in its most populous county, Cuyahoga. The county is instituting an optical scan paper ballot system, rather than using electronic voting machines.

In Democratic primaries across the country, Latinos have largely voted in support of Hillary Clinton. Is race the reason? Roland Roebuck, author of "Hispanos, Racismo y Obama," and Ricardo Ramirez, author of "The Latino Vote Is Pro-Clinton, Not Anti-Obama," talk about what's behind the voting trends.

Novelist and screenwriter Richard Price discusses his new novel, Lush Life, about the repercussions of a shooting on the Lower East side. Price has written extensively about the realities of inner city life; he is a writer for HBO's The Wire which ends a five-year run on Sunday.

Two days after the Texas primary and caucus, the winner is still unclear. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Barack Obama is leading in the count in the caucus.

Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrest Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer, on Thursday. Doug Farah, an investigative journalist, talks to Melissa Block about the man accused of trading arms all over the world — often to both sides of the same conflict simultaneously.

The nation lost 63,000 jobs in February, the first time jobs have dropped two months in a row since 2003. We hear from people in Michigan, one of the hardest hit states, about what it's like to be unemployed and what they're doing to get back on track.

With wins Tuesday in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, the Hillary Clinton campaign says the race has turned a corner. Senior Clinton campaign adviser Ann Lewis discusses the primary results and whether there will be a move to "go negative."

NPR's corporate board has forced out its chief executive, Ken Stern. He joined NPR in 1999, but was only CEO for a little more than a year.

Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney with the Advancement Project in Los Angeles, discusses what the city can do to get at the root of the problem.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer stayed out of the public eye Tuesday, a day after allegations surfaced that he spent thousands of dollars for a night with a call girl. A top state Republican is threatening to push for impeachment.

The Mississippi presidential primary is very different from those in Texas and Ohio, which Democrat Hillary Clinton won. Mississippi has the largest percentage of African-American voters in the country; if voting trends continue, that should benefit her rival, Barack Obama.

On February 26, conductor Lorin Maazel led the New York Philharmonic in an unprecedented concert in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was the first time a major American orchestra performed in the communist country. The concert was broadcast nationwide.

Delegates hold the only keys to the Democratic presidential nomination. We have an update on where the pledged delegate count between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stands Wednesday, and where it's likely headed. We also hear about the superdelegates and the two big states — Michigan and Florida — that lost their delegates.

It's one of the clearest signs yet that Gov. DeSantis plans to run for president in 2024.

The centrist political group No Labels is getting on the ballot in individual states, causing consternation among members of the major political parties about the organization's endgame.

For years Black and brown people have complained about racism, corruption and abuse by the Antioch, Calif., police. Now a racist text message scandal implicates almost half of the department.

Some military veterans, known as Task Force Butler, are tracking and infiltrating domestic extremist groups, hoping to trigger prosecutions before the groups can cause more violence toward minorities.

There's already a huge demand for existing weight-loss drugs, so the new medication is highly anticipated. Obesity affects an estimated 650 million adults globally.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is brushing off Disney's lawsuit against him as politically motivated and says it's time for the iconic company to stop getting favorable treatment in his state.

On Wednesday, John Hume, owner of the Platinum Rhino Project, launched an auction to sell off the 2,000-strong herd in an online sale that's starting at $10 million.