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Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd created a new CD that weaves together interviews with people in airports around the world with jazz and hip hop music. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Iyer and Ladd.

The latest Pew Research Center poll, "A Year After the Iraq War," finds rising levels of mistrust and discontent with the United States and its policies. Those negative findings were prevalent in both Europe and the Arab world. The poll, conducted in Britain, France, Germany and Russia, also included Pakistan, Morocco, Jordan and Turkey. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Pew director Andrew Kohut.

Weekend Edition essayist Bonny Wolf rejoices in a sign of spring that not all of us have had the pleasure of experiencing: the running of the shad, and the delicacy of shad roe. She includes a recipe.

Author James Mann's latest book, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, details 30 years of professional relationships among the president's foreign policy advisors. Mann speaks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

Iraqi negotiators work toward signing a revised interim constitution, with hopes of a ceremony Monday. Last week, just as the constitution was about to be signed, a number of Shiites on Iraq's Governing Council objected to some of the language in the document. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Ivan Watson.

An explosion in the heart of Baghdad kills at least 25 people and leaves nearly 50 others wounded. The blast, which investigators say was the result of a 1,000-pound car bomb, left a huge crater outside the Mount Lebanon hotel, which was nearly destroyed by the blast. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Few thought the city would need to use the pumps so soon.

A small Ukrainian town near the Russian border was the first to be liberated after a four-week Russian occupation.

Biden says the reasoning in the leaked Supreme Court draft would mean "every other decision related to the notion of privacy is thrown into question," including contraception and gay marriage.

A leaked draft ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito overturns the constitutional right to an abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade.