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The move gets Donald Verrilli one step closer to filling the spot vacated by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

Jim Lehrer, longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour announced Thursday that he will retire effective June 6. Lehrer's sober and thorough presentation of the news set the tone for the NewsHour and made him an effective anchor for many presidential debates. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's David Folkenflik for more.

The trial set to begin next week in Chicago could further inflame U.S.-Pakistan tensions. The case involves a man charged with conspiring with others in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. But the bigger question at hand: Pakistan's role in the deadly attacks.

Richard M. Daley, the city's longest-serving mayor, leaves office next week after 22 years on the job. His father, who served 21 years as mayor, was called "the boss." But his son cultivated his own kind of clout.

When the Libyan rebels went to look for someone to run their war economy, they went to an unlikely source: an economics teacher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Rex Ryan, the head coach of the New York Jets, has been called a lot of things: boastful, brash, profane and even fat. But one thing you can't call him is ineffective. In his new book, Play Like You Mean It, Ryan writes about his journey to the top.

The once-dormant race for the Republican presidential nomination is beginning to heat up. Earlier this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich officially declared his candidacy, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas announced his candidacy Friday morning.

In northwestern Pakistan Friday, twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center. The Pakistani Taliban claimed it carried out the attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Dozens of Andy Warhol's works went on the block and fetched, as always, eye-popping prices. A portrait of the late actress Liz Taylor went for $27 million. A self-portrait sold for $27.5 million.

Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, talks to Steve Inkseep about funding for Afghanistan and Pakistan. This week the committee is debating funding for the Afghan war.