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Lawsuits about tainted water at Camp Lejeune are reaching the district court charged with hearing them. Its four judges are set on managing the case as they face possibly tens of thousands of suits.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of Emancipation Proclamation it is displaying for Juneteenth.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been battling for delegates in Texas, which holds its Democratic primary next Tuesday. The state, which is likely to vote Republican in November, has largely been ignored by Democrats in the past. Wayne Slater, a political reporter at the Dallas Morning News, talks with Steve Inskeep about the race.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive director and Chief Negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, about the decision by the actors' union to strike.

Recent critics of Iraq policy have said that it's time the United States gets tough on Iraqi leaders about solving their own country's problems. Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor talks with Mike Pesca about how this rhetoric squares with the daily reality in Iraq.

Condemnation from the United States and other nations may be just what the Iranian president needs to shore up a shaky political position at home.

Karl Rove, President Bush's closest political adviser, is a longtime member of Bush's inner circle. He was nicknamed "the architect" by the president for designing the strategy that twice captured the White House.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock values are down again Friday. Investors are worried that the two home mortgage giants may collapse from the burden of homeowners defaulting on their mortgages. Already, the two companies have posted $11 billion in losses.

President Bush Thursday lifts trade sanctions against North Korea and moves to remove it from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move comes after Pyongyang hands over accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials.

What business did a young black woman in the Northeast have indulging a fascination with the slave-owning heroine of Gone With the Wind? NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates explains the complicated business of Scarlett fever.