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Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) is crucial to the Senate Foreign Relations committee's vote, scheduled for Tuesday, on John Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations. The liberal Republican from Rhode Island faces a tough re-election bid next year, and voting against Bolton -- and his party -- could prove politically risky.

President Bush names John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a congressional recess appointment that underlines the president's frustration with the reluctance of lawmakers to confirm the nominee. Bolton can now serve 17 months, until the end of the current Congress.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for a special election so voters can consider his far-reaching proposals on reshaping the state's government. The move bypasses the legislature. John Myers of member station KQED reports.

Cass Sunstein, the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, comments on Tuesday night's Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts. Early in his career, Sunstein clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein discusses the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and President Bush's nomination of John G. Roberts to replace him.

Foreign life forms ranging from the dreaded zebra mussel to mute swans are taking over the American countryside. Biologists haven't had much luck in their fight to stop this "silent invasion," but the battle isn't over yet. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry turn their attention to domestic issues. Kerry discussed health care in Des Moines, Iowa, while Bush talked about small business growth in Colmar, Penn. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Mara Liasson.

John Kerry says he would make America's military stronger if he were president. The Democratic nominee, speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, criticized President Bush's proposed reductions in U.S. troop levels abroad. NPR's Juan Williams reports.

Fighting resumes in Najaf after a collapse in truce talks between Iraqi officials and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Mortar shells hit Baghdad near where delegates are meeting to choose a national assembly. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and John Burns of The New York Times.

Sen. John Kerry sharply critiques President Bush's policy in Iraq, saying he would protect soldiers better if he were in office. The Democratic nominee's speech to the American Legion went against the tradition of candidates taking a break during opponents' party conventions. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

His new movie is A Door in the Floor, based on the best-selling John Irving novel A Widow for One Year. Bridges has starred in The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tucker, The Big Lebowski, and Seabiscuit, among other films. He's been nominated for Academy Awards four times. (Originally broadcast on Oct. 29, 2003.)

NPR's Melissa Block talks with U.S. senators Pat Roberts (R-KS), chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-WVA), the panel's vice-chair, about their report criticizing pre-war intelligence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report was approved unanimously by the bi-partisan committee.

The Bush administration considers removing several animals from the Endangered Species List, saying the populations are now large enough to survive without protection. But ecologists say headcounts are only one way to measure whether a species has recovered. Hear NPR's John Nielsen.

Catholics and evangelical Christians are among swing voters key to this year's presidential race, a new poll finds. Many voters who describe themselves as religious say the economy and foreign policy are more important this year than cultural issues. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and political scientist John Green.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry emphasizes the importance of stem cell research, a subject of disagreement between Kerry and President Bush. Speaking in Portsmouth, N.H., Kerry questioned the president's decision-making style and the influence of GOP extremists. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry traded barbs on domestic issues — from the economy to health care to Social Security — during their third and final debate, held Wednesday night at Arizona State University.

On the last weekend of campaigning before "Super Tuesday" -- when 10 states hold elections -- things are heating up in delegate-rich Ohio. Voters are looking ahead to the November general election and the state's potentially pivotal role. Hear NPR's John Ydstie and NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

How to make college more affordable has emerged as a major domestic policy debate between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry. According to recent polls, Americans rank education -- and growing concern about the rising cost of college -- as one of the most important domestic issues. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Within minutes of the Republican convention's end, Sen. John Kerry responds to GOP attacks, including suggestions he's unfit to lead. Kerry says he won't have his commitment questioned by those whom he says refused to serve in Vietnam and misled America into Iraq. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.

Sen. John Kerry launches a scathing attack on Republicans, suggesting they may try to suppress black voter turnout in November. The Democratic presidential nominee spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus Saturday. Hear NPR's Nancy Marshall-Genzer.