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In cities around the world -- including 250 in the United States -- demonstrators turn out to protest the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Many urge American leaders to end the occupation that began with a military invasion one year ago and bring U.S. troops home. Hear NPR News reports.

Senior news analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says many voters chose to support Sen. John Kerry in Tuesday's primaries for reasons having more to do with his "winnability" than his stance on the issues -- but that those reasons may change in the months leading up to the election.

U.S. accounting firms are increasingly outsourcing data-entry work related to tax returns overseas. This year, as many as 100,000 American taxpayers may have their returns prepared in India. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor organization, announces it is backing Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. The endorsement comes as rival Sen. John Edwards criticizes Kerry's support for NAFTA, a trade agreement many workers blame for the loss of U.S. jobs. Hear NPR News.

Songwriter and pianist Bart Howard wrote many cabaret songs, but he is best known for one that became a well-loved standard: "Fly Me to the Moon." His companion says Howard died over the weekend in Carmel, N.Y., of complications from a stroke. He was 88.

It was the anthem of the Confederacy, but President Abraham Lincoln used it as gesture of reconciliation at the end of the Civil War. It's a symbol of racism and slavery to many African Americans, but it endures. On Morning Edition, NPR's Cynthia Johnston explores the origins of Dixiefor the Present at the Creation series.

Doctors say proposed cuts in Medicare reimbursements will force them to reduce care to seniors and the disabled. But new analysis shows that many doctors actually increase services to patients -- using new therapies and more preventative care -- when Medicare lowers reimbursements.

Commentator Kelly McBride says despite efforts by many parties to reduce the Schiavo case to black and white for their own purposes, it represents the grayest of gray areas. McBride heads the ethics department at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Both the earthquake and the tsunami damaged buildings and killed people in Indonesia's Aceh province. Many houses are chest-deep in mud. NPR's Melissa Block talks to reporter Paul Dillon.

As President Bush prepares an effort to expand many of the No Child Left Behind Act's provisions to high schools, NPR's Claudio Sanchez examines the law's successes and shortcomings.