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With a lull in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, it's a good time to take a look at the campaign for control of the House of Representatives, which controls the federal budget. Host Scott Simon talks to American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein about congressional races.

An iPhone and iPad were worth more to a Chinese teenager than his kidney, according to a report Friday from China's Xinhua news agency. Now five people in southern China face charges of illegal organ trading.

Temperatures around the nation have been unusually warm this spring. While it might be time to lie on a blanket in the park, climate scientists are worried. They say all these sunny days are actually an extreme weather event, one with local and global implications.

Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan speaks with NPR reporter Joseph Shapiro about the sentence of Shirley Ree Smith's "shaken baby" case. California Gov. Jerry Brown has commuted Smith's sentence. Despite her claims of innocence, Smith was convicted in December 1997, and has been free since 2006 awaiting the results of her appeals.

The singer-songwriter has experienced ups and downs in the four years since her last album, including breaking her thyroid and getting married.

After a year in Afghanistan, members of the 182nd Infantry Regiment are returning to their homes in the Northeast. As families and soldiers prepare to reunite, both sides are anxious about what lies ahead.

Early on, experts predicted about a million Americans would have cell phones by the turn of century. They were wrong. The actual number was more than 100 times that estimate. NPR's Wendy Kaufman explores the history of the mobile phone.

Renee Montagne talks to Christine Brennan of USA Today for a wrap-up of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. Bubba Watson won by beating Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a playoff.

An agreed cease-fire to end months of bloodshed in Syria, was set to take effect Tuesday. But last-minute demands by the Syrian government have effectively derailed a U.N.-brokered peace plan.