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NPR's Juan Williams analyzes the political battle in the Senate over who might replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

The 10 winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize honors emerging writers, with the hope of allowing them to concentrate full-time on their work.

The University of Kansas just won the NCAA men's basketball championship, but the results of an investigation into recruiting violations may spoil the party.

To address the problem of poor care, President Biden is calling for a federal minimum staffing requirement in nursing homes. The nursing home industry says there aren't workers to fill the jobs.

Some progress was reported during weekend talks in Vienna between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the EU's foreign-policy chief. Iran has reportedly offered to temporarily suspend nuclear-enrichment activities.

Two of last week's biggest stories -- the arrest of seven Florida men on a conspiracy bombing plot and the government's probe into the records of a banking group called SWIFT -- were covered by the media in very different ways.

An emblematic story of the conquest of the West is told in Hampton Sides' new history Blood and Thunder. He focuses on the 20-year battle for control of Navajo country, a tale of bloodshed and deceit.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to China for the first formal summit between the two countries in five years. The trip comes at a time of high regional tension, with North Korea threatening to carry out a nuclear test.

There's an unusual bi-partisan effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release information about certain Superfund cleanup sites, pieces of land that have been deemed too toxic for development. The EPA says sharing some information about the sites could discourage companies from cleaning up their environmental messes.

It looks like Bloomington-Normal economic development officials might have been right in saying Rivian hiring hasn't been fully reflected in state job reports over the last several months.