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Almost a week after a massive tornado blitzed across Alabama, people in that state are still trying to figure out a way to move forward. The twister ripped through Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama. Classes and finals have since been canceled.

Lawmakers' response to constituents can differ based on the perceived race of the voters asking the legislator for help, according to an interesting study by Yale University political scientists.

The Indiana governor's first campaign was at Boys State in the late '60s. Tellingly, he picked a candidate and managed the campaign rather than run himself. In fact, until he ran for governor in 2004, Daniels stayed behind the scenes. "This was something I was interested in," he says, "but [it] wasn't an obsession with me."

Former All Things Considered host Robert Conley remembers his time on the show

Whew, it's been such a fun day at NPR. Here's what we've been doing to celebrate NPR and ATC's 40th anniversary.

Director Kathryn Bigelow has been working on an adaptation of the book Kill Bin Laden. It's about the failed attempt to take out bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in 2001. Now that bin Laden is dead, the project may need tweaking.

At the heart of the Republican plan is a proposal to give everybody in the program a subsidy to buy private health insurance. Its supporters say it would reduce health care spending. But critics contend it allows the government to spend less on Medicare by making patients pay more — potentially a lot more.

In an extended interview with NPR, Eric Holder blamed Congress for blocking the New York trial of the accused masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks. He said terrorism was the Justice Department's top priority, and "deplored" the release of the WikiLeaks memos.

With gas prices topping $4 a gallon in parts of the country, small cars sales have raced ahead. General Motors says its passenger car sales rose 49 percent — spurred on by sales of 25,000 Chevy Cruze cars. At Ford, the Focus helped propel that carmaker's sales. And, Chrysler also enjoyed big gains.

The tornadoes that raged Alabama scattered lives, families and debris. And also water bills, check stubs and photographs. One person picked up so many personal documents she found scattered in her yard, she decided to create a Facebook page for them.