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President Bush says in a national address that keeping the June 30 deadline to return full sovereignty to an Iraqi government is important to proving the United States will not indefinitely extend its occupation. The president's speech from the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn., was the first of a planned series of talks on Iraq. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Disagreements among Republicans in Congress over how to handle the budget and the federal deficit has pitted some political icons against each other in recent days. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

The United States and Britain prepare a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that would endorse the installation of an interim Iraqi government on June 30. The draft also gives U.N. approval for U.S. and other foreign troops in Iraq. It is not likely to be finalized until U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi names the leaders of a caretaker Iraqi government. Hear Peter Kenyon and NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

Finance ministers from the world's leading industrial nations call for raising oil production to meet current demand and ease pressure on the global economy. Representatives of the Group of 8 were meeting in New York to discuss skyrocketing gas prices. Steve Beckner of Market News International reports.

To advance health equity, the state is requiring insurers that offer public option plans to collect demographic data on providers, including race and sexual orientation, raising privacy concerns.

Moses had been convicted of registering to vote illegally in Memphis in 2019

Collards were once as diverse as the Southern families they fed, but countless varieties have vanished. The race is on to preserve and propagate. That's where the Heirloom Collard Project comes in.

The auction from Lana and Lilly Wachowski includes more than 180 items from The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Sense 8 and Speed Racer, among other films.

Prashant Baid created halfloafnear.me for himself; he hates throwing out bread that's gone bad. But now, he says, the program has struck a chord with other people seeking to reduce food waste.

In the funny and heartfelt coming-of-age graphic memoir 'Messy Roots,' artist Laura Gao unpacks their relationship with their Asianness, queerness and their ever-changing home city of Wuhan.