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It's a time of upheaval in the U.S. House, amid lobbying scandals and the indictment of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay on campaign finance charges. Melissa Block talks to Walter Shapiro, Washington bureau chief for Salon.com, about the race among three House Republicans seeking to succeed DeLay in the majority leader's post.

Melissa Block talks with Karl Vick of The Washington Post in Tehran about reaction in Iran to threats of sanctions if Iran continues its nuclear program.

Supporters of the concept of doctor-assisted suicide say they'll try again this year to get the California legislature to pass a measure that would authorize the practice. The effort failed in 2005, d

Maliha Zulfacar left Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded in 1979. She now splits her time between a teaching post in California and one in Kabul, where she's leading an oral history project that she hopes will help Afghans make sense of the impact of three decades of war.

Steve Inskeep talks with former President Bill Clinton about his foundation's work to lower the cost of AIDS treatments in developing countries. Thursday, the Clinton Foundation announced it had negotiated cheaper long-term drugs and faster AIDS tests.

Sunday is the deadline for Mexican expatriates to register to vote in their country's presidential election this July. It's the first time Mexicans living outside the country will be allowed to vote.

In October 2003, Mark Etherington became governor of the Shiite-majority Wasit Province in Iraq. Six months later, Etherington, isolated from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, was forced to flee his headquarters in al-Kut, the province's capital. His new book is Revolt on the Tigris.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito acknowledged a constitutional right to privacy and distanced himself from a memo he wrote two decades ago against the right to abortion.

Tomorrow morning, bright and early, polling booths will open yet again in the city of San Diego. Two city council seats are up for grabs - in District's Two and Eight. After a busy year last year --wi

Ariel Sharon is in stable but serious condition after five hours of surgery that stopped bleeding in his brain. A brain scan on the Israeli prime minister shows significant improvement, a hospital official says.