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The results of the audit could drop incumbent Hamid Karzai's vote total below 50 percent, triggering a second round of voting. Officials in Kabul also say a resolution of the election could come in a loya jirga, a political assembly traditionally used in Afghanistan to decide political matters.

The plan, announced Tuesday, is designed to deal with drug-related violence by addressing the problem of U.S.-made guns being smuggled south by violent drug cartels.

The recession is taking a harsh toll on corporate America as companies continue to scale down their operations and lay off workers in response to reduced profits. Harley-Davidson became the latest company to announce layoffs, and General Electric's earnings fell 46 percent in the latest quarter.

At the Kennedy Center's Arabesque festival, audiences are meeting a strangely familiar bad guy. He's speaking Arabic, and courting women in burqas, but he acts a lot like Shakespeare's Richard III.

President Trump got a warm welcome in Saudi Arabia but troubles he left behind in Washington are still making waves after a week of controversy and breaking news.

The Guinness World Records book fascinated Juliet Frerking when she was a child. Beyond the oddball accomplishments it listed, the book inspired Frerking to attempt feats in her own life that people told her were impossible.

Comedian Sarah Silverman is known for delivering closely observed social commentary in a disarming, politically incorrect style. She tells stories about her childhood and her career in a new memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee.

In 1994, Courtney Love's band Hole released Live Through This, one of the era's most powerful pop albums and a landmark of female-fronted rock 'n' roll. Will Hermes looks at two albums by worthy successors to Hole: Young British singer Kate Nash and Hole itself, which Love recently re-formed with a new lineup.

As more families find themselves displaced by the recession, the face of homelessness in America is changing. HUD recently released a study that offers solutions for dealing with the growing problem. Host Michele Martin talks with Secretary Shaun Donovan about the report.

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed millions.