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Following the recent removal of the drug Vioxx from the market, lawmakers are reconsidering a portion of medical malpractice reform. Caps in the malpractice bill would affect pharmaceutical and medical product manufacturers. Democrats oppose the caps, but Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) calls the situation a "feeding frenzy" for trial lawyers. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

In Cuba, a group of women known as the "ladies in white" engage in persistent, peaceful demonstrations. They are the wives of some of the 75 men arrested nearly two years ago in Cuba's crackdown on dissidents. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports.

We sit at a back booth in a back-street caf?, two old San Diego friends who believe in this city's future. We agree that we have never seen city government so irresponsible. Its crises seem ingrained. City Hall is becoming a closed shop.

Fixing San Diego

The presidential candidates continue to trawl the battleground states. In New Hampshire, President Bush gave a speech dwelling largely on Sept. 11. Opponent Sen. John Kerry, in Florida, kept his focus trained on attacking Bush's approach in Iraq. Hear NPR's David Welna and NPR's Scott Horsley.

Anti-American anger in the Arab world is at an all-time high, shaped by the Iraq war -- and a perception that U.S. foreign policy is hostile to Arab and Muslim concerns. NPR's Deborah Amos concludes her series on Iraq's Arab neighbors.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, the campaigns of both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry seem to be employing similar strategies: encouraging voters to worry about the future, should the opposing side be elected. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

As violence continues in Iraq, next door in secular Syria, reforms have stalled and an Islamic revival is under way. NPR's Deborah Amos has the first of a five-part series on Iraq's Arab neighbors.

I found that peculiar, says Hatcher who came to San Diego earlier this month to promote his film, then I realized that was the time that was when women were finally allowed to play women and Kynaston was out of a job. I thought this could be a good story about a man whos caught in a huge cultural sea change and whose identity is turned upside down because the one thing he does really well, the one thing that he identifies himself by, is taken away from him.

Voter turnout in Afghanistan's presidential election was stronger than expected, even as some groups boycotted the vote in protest. Opposition candidates have charged there were irregularities. The vote will be counted Monday. NPR's Rachel Martin reports.