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Energy minister Karine Elharrar says she was taken to several entrances on Monday, the first full day of the conference, but was unable to get inside from any of them.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health said last week it started adding the reinfection case numbers first in Philadelphia then for the other 66 counties.

The Sundance Film Festival opens Thursday in Park City, Utah. But so far, festival organizers have largely ignored an independent film genre thriving in their backyard: Mormon cinema. As NPR's Howard Berkes reports, films with Mormon-centered themes fill a niche market, and some have won critical acclaim.

Kenyan voters decide the most hotly contested presidential election since gaining independence. It's one of the few serious elections since its British rulers left some 40 years ago. The main contenders are President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, one of Kibaki's former Cabinet ministers.

FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was transferred from prison to a medical facility on Tuesday after appearing "lethargic." On Wednesday, Jeffs was escorted from the hospital and taken to an airport.

The massive Hurricane Ike moved toward the Texas coast, forcing nearly a million people to flee inland before it comes ashore in the heavily populated Galveston-to-Houston corridor.

The U.S. Attorney's Office could file additional charges against two former hedge fund managers — Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin — as early as next week, officials close to the inquiry tell NPR.

It may be Super Tuesday elsewhere, but in New Orleans, it's Fat Tuesday — Mardi Gras — the third since Hurricane Katrina. And with 12 days of parades and parties, the Gulf region is almost as festive as before the storm.

The U.S. economy suffered a net loss of 20,000 jobs in April, the government says. Despite being the fourth month of job losses in a row, the decline was far smaller than the 80,000 shed in the first quarter. Most economists had expected deeper job losses. The unemployment rate improved slightly, to 5 percent.

Walter Hyatt's widow, Heidi, has finished one of her husband's last albums. The singer-songwriter who inspired Lyle Lovett and Nancy Griffith left more than 40 tracks behind when he died in a plane crash in 1996. Some Unfinished Business showcases the variety of styles that Hyatt played and wrote.