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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he'll try to persuade Democrats to allow a confirmation vote on John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. But Democrats say they'll continue to filibuster until the White House provides documents regarding Bolton's days at the State Department.

In South Carolina, two U.S. House incumbents — Nancy Mace and Tom Rice — were challenged by Republicans who had the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

In Nevada, there were notable Republican primaries for U.S. Senate, governor and secretary of state, along with primary races for U.S. House.

India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.

In the first of a two-part series, NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on the new "Supermax" prison in Boscobel, Wis., built to house the most vicious criminals from other prisons. It cost $44 million to build, and yearly operating costs are projected at $10 million. It appears that economic and political considerations played an important part in the decision to build the facility, which has room for 500 inmates.

In an interview for All Things Considered, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor talks about Lazy B, the new book she wrote with her brother, and how the straightforward values she learned on the family ranch helped shape her destiny. (7:30) The book is published by Random House. ISBN # 03755

The White House has asserted that most of the terrorism currently undermining U.S. efforts in Iraq is perpetrated by non-Iraqis. Terror analysts and Middle East experts differ in their opinion of the nature of the attacks -- and who is behind them. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and Rand Corporation policy analyst John Parachini.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's near-sweep in Tuesday's 10-state contests all but secured his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Juan Williams about what is next for the Kerry campaign and its eight-month competition with President Bush for the White House.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair defends his Iraq policy under a firestorm of House of Commons criticism from both the opposition and members of his own party. The Blair government is accused of doctoring a dossier that was said to prove Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability. Members of Parliament are calling for an investigation.

Former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke says National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the Sept. 11 commission does not change his assertion that the Bush administration's focus on Iraq undermined its capacity to deal with the threat posed by al Qaeda. Clarke speaks with NPR's Robert Siegel.