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A controversial election-season ad campaign -- substantially underwritten by drug companies -- advocates the much-debated proposal to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

After a month of voting, the governing Congress party has won decisively in India, defying expectations.

Yasin Bhatkal, a co-founder of the Indian Mujahideen, has been arrested in what authorities have described as a major blow to Islamic terrorism in the region.

A new Brazilian hero isn't a soccer star, it's the prosecutor pressing the corruption case against the country's political elites. He's got a book that taps into the public's desire to clean house.

Four state Senate Democrats broke ranks in tabling a bill that would have banned the sale or transfer of certain assault-style weapons. It also would have banned magazines with more than 12 rounds.

Moldova's pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.

Cindy Hyde-Smith is making a name for herself in the state's history books as the first woman to represent the Magnolia State on the Hill.

Third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are getting little NPR coverage.

David Greene talks to Leslie Wimes of the Democratic African-American Women Caucus in Florida about the election of former Labor Secretary Tom Perez to head the Democratic National Committee.

A group of leading Shiite clerics are holding talks to resolve the U.S. standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose anti-American rhetoric touched off a wave of attacks on U.S.-led forces in several Iraqi cities. Al-Sadr's militiamen have withdrawn from police and government buildings they had occupied, but the security situation remains unstable. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.