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The Justice Department is reviewing its lethal injection protocols because of a shortage of a key drug. Authorities are also less likely to seek the death penalty for murderers of drug dealers. In a trend that's moved from the states to the federal level, things are getting quiet on death row.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in his budget address, said the state’s fiscal future is dependent on how much aid it receives from Washington under the…

Conventions of major political parties and international organizations such as the World Bank often draw more media than participants. And the media, in turn, attract protesters seeking attention for their causes. This week in Los Angeles the streets will again be alive with marchers, but NPR's Aaron Schachter reports that not all of them will fit the familiar media stereotype.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Jacky Rowland about Sunday's Presidential elections in Yugoslavia. Yesterday, more than 100-thousand people turned out to cheer Vojislav Kostunica, the man seeking to defeat Slobodan Milosevic in Sunday's elections.

NPR's Margot Adler visited a community in Brooklyn, New York that is home to many of the Pakistanis who traveled north to seek asylum in Canada. Thousands more have left their homes in the United States for other destinations.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon is continuing efforts to form a coalition government. Once in office, Sharon's first move may be to seek reforms to an electoral system that many Israelis say makes the country all but ungovernable.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Last Resort. Set in a London apartment building that acts as a holding station for people seeking political asylum, the film offers a gritty, realistic view of life as a refugee.

President Bush sent the centerpiece of his domestic agenda to Congress today, seeking approval of a tax cut plan valued at one-point-six-trillion dollars over the next ten years. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Capitol Hill.

Many women seek an abortion to keep from falling deeper into poverty, research shows.

Colleges around the country seek ways to help students studying for final exams find ways to relieve tension. Play-Doh, anyone?