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A top leader of the Sunni Arab movement that has been aligned with U.S. forces in Iraq's Anbar province was killed Thursday in a roadside bombing. Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was founder of the Anbar Salvation Council, which joined U.S. troops fighting al-Qaida in Iraq last year.

Russia's military has performed poorly, and Ukraine has defied expectations. But will these trends hold? Experts look at how the war could take a different path in its second year.

The Iraqi parliament is filling key leadership posts this weekend. It's a next step in the nation's struggle to form a new government. A potential list of new officials begins with Jawad al-Maliki, who would serve as prime minister, replacing the outgoing Ibrahim al-Jafaari.

As humans have cut into Brazil's forests, the toucan population has taken a dive. The trees, in turn, have changed, too: Without large-billed birds to eat fruit with big seeds, only trees with small seeds thrive. Eventually, one scientist says, "the impacts on the forest could be quite dramatic."

As Florida lawmakers inch toward a budget deal, House and Senate leaders on Saturday announced they had reached agreement on a number of key issues,...

Many brokers feared the new federal health law would make them obsolete. But more than 40 percent of people who signed up for insurance via Kentucky's state exchange used a broker.

President Bush has chosen Wall Street veteran Henry M. Paulson Jr. to be his third treasury secretary. If confirmed, he would succeed John Snow. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel tells Steve Inskeep that the Goldman Sachs CEO can make a difference at Treasury by taming the federal budget process and the tending to the value of the dollar.

The Federal Reserve kept its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge on overnight loans, unchanged at 2 percent. It said, however, that strains in financial markets had "increased significantly."

The Senate voted Monday to cut off debate on the economic stimulus bill and move it toward passage. The vote was 61-36, one more than the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward passage in the Senate Tuesday.

Ohio and Florida could decide the election — or delay the results for days to come. NPR reporters in Tampa, Fla., and the Columbus, Ohio, area talk with Morning Edition hosts about what people are talking about at the polls and possible challenges.