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A close, contentious California primary race was finally decided early Wednesday morning. State Treasurer Phil Angelides won the Democratic nomination for governor, narrowly beating out Controller Steve Westly. Angelides will run against Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the fall.

Prodded by an increasing number of complaints about anti-gay protests by a Kansas church group, President Bush signs a law banning demonstrators from disrupting military funerals. Leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka believe dead soldiers symbolize God's anger at America's tolerance of homosexuals.

German-born Pope Benedict XVI makes a solemn visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, ending a four-day tour of Poland. Benedict called the Nazi death camp "a place of horror."

This past weekend's Preakness Stakes horse race was overshadowed by the life-threatening injury to favorite Barbaro. Steve Haskin, senior correspondent for The Blood-Horse magazine, talks to Steve Inskeep about Babaro's injury.

A group of San Diego bicycle riders is taking to the streets at seven o'clock Wednesday evening (tonight/tomorrow night). But it's not a joy ride. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce reports.

Beijing is tearing down many of its historic districts to make way for high-rise apartments and office towers. In the process, the sounds of the city's old neighborhoods are gradually falling silent.

On the eve of what looked to be Nepal's largest pro-democracy demonstration so far, King Gyanendra reinstated the lower house of parliament. The lower house is far more important than the largely symbolic upper house under Nepal's constitution. The move appears to meet a key demand of the seven-party opposition.

The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. We hear some of their stories.

In California, an ex-member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang testifies about murders and assaults carried out behind bars. He's one of the government's prime witnesses in a federal effort to dismantle the Aryan Brotherhood.

has always looked to films from both home and abroad to highlight the best in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender cinema. But this year, the festival boasts a particularly international flavor. Sampling