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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.

International aid workers pour food and supplies into a small town in western Sudan, hoping to persuade some 30,000 people not to flee to eastern Chad. The United Nations is trying to keep Sudanese people from joining overburdened refugee camps in Chad. Arab militia have forced over a million people from their homes in Darfur. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

Chief Judge Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry is one of dozens of independent-minded Pakistani judges sacked late last year by President Pervez Musharraf. On Thursday, several hundred lawyers showed up at his house in Islamabad, demanding that the new government immediately reinstate him and the other judges.

The confrontation between the U.S. occupation authority and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr continues to intensify after Sadr's followers attacked U.S. and other coalition forces Sunday. Amid more violence Monday, U.S. spokesmen revealed that an arrest warrant has been issued for Sadr in connection with the murder of a rival cleric last spring. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said he wants to arrange a meeting between the state’s two federally recognized Native American tribes and with MGM about…

Italian and sushi are two words that normally don't go together. Chef David Pasternack is trying to change that, with a dish called crudo. The chef at Esca in New York City has a new cookbook, The Young Man and The Sea.

The suit accuses school officials of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings that the boy had a gun on the day Abby Zwerner was shot and seriously wounded in January.

The suit accuses school officials of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings that the boy had a gun on the day Abby Zwerner was shot and seriously wounded in January.

Senate Republicans are threatening to dump the filibuster for judicial nominees -- an option Democrats have been using to block some of President Bush's more controversial judicial nominees. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), who is trying to craft a bipartisan compromise that would save the filibuster, discusses the debate.

A federal judge ordered United Airlines to temporarily halt its plan to remove unvaccinated employees seeking a religious or medical exemption from the company payroll.