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One of the challenges policymakers meeting in Wyoming this weekend are wrestling with is how to get control of the government's red ink without kicking the economy's wobbly legs out from under it.

In recent days, GOP leaders seem to be having trouble running the House floor and keeping their own members united. They've yanked a bill and lost two votes. The problem? Largely it's the upstart freshmen who came ready to fight — even with their own party leaders.

The Obama administration plans to pull some troops out of Afghanistan in July. But administration officials say the overall strategy will remain as is — in part because it's still unclear what effect bin Laden's death is going to have on the insurgency.

A massive tornado smashed into the city of Joplin, Mo., on Sunday night, killing scores of people. It was one of the worst in a series of storms that swept the Midwest. For the latest developments, Renee Montagne speaks with Missy Shelton, a reporter at KSMU, who is in Joplin.

Political scandals don't always kill the participants. Some survive. Some give up the ghost. Some whose careers have died keep on going.

A year after President Obama asked Gen. David Petraeus to jump-start the counterinsurgency operation in Afghanistan, he's handing over command. And there's a question of whether the change also signals a shift in strategy — from fixing Afghanistan to taking out insurgents with targeted raids and drone strikes.

Ali Aujali was the Libyan ambassador to the U.S. under Gadhafi, but resigned after the uprising began. As a representative of the rebel council now, he's trying to get access to the country's frozen assets — and also to his office at the embassy in Washington, D.C.

Social media sites have been powerful organizing tools in the Middle East, but they are of little use to the small opposition movement in Cuba, the least-connected country in the hemisphere. In addition, Cuban dissidents are divided and the government responds swiftly to any unsanctioned protest.

Some 700 former Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have reconciled with the government and are seeking to reintegrate into society. Within the past month, two insurgent commanders have given up the fight. They have been promised protection as well as jobs and shelter for their men.

As search and rescue teams from all over Japan work through tsunami debris in the northeast, they have been joined by a team from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Leader Dave Stone, who has worked recently in New Zealand and Haiti, says his team has never seen anything of "this scope and magnitude."