Search results for

About 14 million Kenyans were eligible to vote in Thursday's presidential election. The main contenders are Kenya's current president, Mwai Kibaki, and his one-time ally, Raila Odinga. The race has been too close to call, and some feared it would result in vote-buying and tribal violence.

Bush administration lawyers told a federal judge Friday that there's no evidence that the CIA violated the judge's order when it destroyed videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaida suspects. Lawyers for detainees said the destruction of the tapes makes them fear that other related materials are not being saved.

Two Congressional watchdog groups Tuesday called on Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) to step down from his seats on the Senate's Commerce and Appropriations committees. The senator is being investigated as part of a political corruption inquiry.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hears testimony from ex-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in the inquiry into Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Lawmakers want to know how far up the chain of command a cover-up went.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon used his State of the Union speech to critique the United States. He said he was protesting what he called the "persecution" of undocumented Mexican workers.

A federal judge unsealed documents in the anthrax case Wednesday. FBI officials were expected to hold a public event to describe the evidence against Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide last week before prosecutors could charge him in the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.

Jean Sebastian Matte, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, says many people in Myanmar who are in desperate need of aid haven't received any. While there has been no outbreak of disease yet, he says that respiratory illnesses and diarrhea are growing more common in the storm-ravaged country.

Federal authorities charge three men with running an identity theft scheme in which credit information was stolen from more than 30,000 victims across the country. Authorities say financial losses of more $2.7 million have already been substantiated. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports on the Bush administration's decision to cut pay raises for non-military government workers. Cutting the scheduled pay raise one point -- to 3.1 percent -- will save the federal government about $1 billion. The move drew sharp rebukes from union officials. (3:20)

Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with John Maginnis, author and publisher of the Louisiana Political Fax Weekly about the run-off election for one of Louisiana's seats in the U.S. Senate between Democrat incumbent Mary Landrieu and Republican challenger Suzie Terrell. (5:00)