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Two members of Duke's lacrosse team are free on bond after being arrested on charges of kidnapping and rape. The charges stem from a team party at a house near the university's Durham, N.C., campus. Prosecutors say the pair assaulted a woman who was hired to dance at the party.

The Senate passes a spending measure totaling $14 billion more than President Bush said he would accept. But the president has eased his veto threat, waiting to see how a conference committee will handle the gap between the Senate plan and the House's $91.9 billion proposal.

Students at the world's only university for the deaf, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are unhappy that Jane Fernandes was chosen as the school's new president. What lies behind the demonstrations?

Filal al-Nakib, the former Iraqi interior minister, directed thousands of investigators and police in the first years after the American invasion. Al-Nakib, a Sunni Muslim, was replaced in 2005, after a Shiite coalition came to power. He talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep in Baghdad about policing a country at war.

District Attorney Joyce Chiles in Mississippi is considering whether enough evidence exists to prosecute the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. FBI investigators reopened the Till case in 2004. Federal civil rights prosecutors are hamstrung by a statute of limitations, but there is no such obstacle in Mississippi.

Patients may not realize it, but many of the prescriptions they get from their doctors are "off-label" -- that is, for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It's legal, and a new study shows it's an accepted part of medical practice: 21 percent of all prescriptions are for what are called off-label uses.

After President Evo Morales nationalized Bolivia's natural gas industry, Brazil froze investments in Bolivia's energy sector. Some leaders in the region are wary of Morales' move toward Cuba's Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits the U.S. for talks with President Bush. The U.S.-U.K. relationship is once again under the microscope in the midst of the Israel-Lebanon crisis. Don Gonyea talks to John Prideaux, of the Economist, about criticism in the U.K. that Blair is too close to Bush.

For years, Quique Aviles was two people: one who was a successful poet, and one who was a crack addict. Now he believes his art and the connections it gives him to other people can help save his life.

The Israeli airstrike in Qana, Lebanon, this morning has instant political repercussions in Lebanon. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora cancelled today's scheduled meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and has said there will be no talks until a cease-fire is in place.