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The Justice Department asks a federal judge to throw out the terror convictions of a group of Detroit men who Attorney General John Ashcroft had portrayed as an al Qaeda sleeper cell. The department says its own prosecutors made enough mistakes to warrant a new trial, on charges of document fraud. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

A landmark conservation plan would link up wildlands in Southern California. A report to be released Wednesday by the group South Coast Wildlands maps out strategies to preserve and link vast stretche

South Carolina might be key to Sen. John McCain's presidential bid. The state, which holds its Republican primary Jan. 19, is home to thousands of military veterans. McCain is a war hero. The state's Democratic primary is set for Jan. 26.

The Bush administration calls for changes to the FISA law — the 1970s-era legislation that gives a secret court oversight for spy agencies to wiretap inside the United States. The administration wants to make the law more "technology-neutral" for new forms of surveillance. But some civil libertarians are crying foul.

The Virginia State Police said that they are likely to close the two crime scenes at Virginia Tech, having collected all the evidence they can. They have done hundreds of interviews and gathered mounds of other evidence. But Seung-hui Cho's multimedia manifesto didn't provide the insights they had hoped for.

If you're not eating five or more servings a day of fruits and veggies -- you're not alone. New research shows few Americans are. So officials are changing marketing tactics -- in essence, urging peop

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in a new public service announcement that state officials will release later this month to radio and TV stations, and even YouTube. He wants to persuade mili

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether states may require government-issued photo identification cards as proof of identity for voters at the polls. At issue is a strict Indiana law, but many other states have similar laws.

The International Gymnastics Federation asks U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm to give his Olympic all-around gold medal to South Korea's Yang Tae-young. Yang lost the gold due to a scoring error, but FIG refused to change the final scores. Hear NPR's Alex Chadwick and NPR's Howard Berkes.

San Diego County will be asked whether a commercial airport should be built at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Producer Lee Swanson takes the ballot language apart to find out what it really means.