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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Roger Wesby of Staten Island, N.Y.

NPR's Adrian Ma plays the puzzle with North Country Public Radio listener Sarah Baldwin and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

The White House's trade policy has "opened the door to corruption," according to a letter from Ron Wyden and Chris Van Hollen.

Teams representing top lawmakers and average Pennsylvanians widely agree on the basics of a good map but differ on how to weigh factors like partisan fairness.

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Republicans have used a CIA memo to point out that top Democrats who were briefed on interrogation techniques used under the Bush administration did not act to stop them. But Democrats say that's not fair, arguing that they had few options for taking action on what was classified information.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on legislation re-regulating Wall Street — a top priority for President Obama. Republicans say it is too soon to take up the bill. That amounts to a filibuster; and Democrats will need 60 votes to override it — one more than the 59 they control. Democrats say it's time to consider doing away with the procedural move.

Democrats in Congress are trying to thread a seemingly impossible needle. They say they want to address things like child care, climate change and poverty. But they also need to keep the price down.

Xi Jinping's allies and loyalists are expected to be installed in other key posts in the coming days, completing a sweeping power grab in China.

In talks to frame an Iraqi constitution, a top Shiite political leader calls for autonomy for the Shiite-dominated region of southern Iraq. In the north, Kurdish leaders made similar demands. Iraq's Shiite prime minister rejected the proposals.