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With the clock ticking down to the crucial South Carolina primary, a big-time lineup of evangelical leaders will gather in Texas on Friday in an effort to rally around one of their own. Here's a who's who.

British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Westmacott talks to Steve Inskeep about what's likely to dominate the agenda as Prime Minister David Cameron visits Washington for talks with President Obama: Afghanistan.

Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in North Korea's prison camps and gotten out alive. Journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin's daring escape.

Federal prosecutors in Charleston, W.Va., have filed the most serious criminal charges yet in the investigation of the April, 2010, coal mine explosion that left 29 mine workers dead.

When Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya, no one imagined stepping foot in Bab al-Azizia, but now it's a reminder of his iron rule that is slowly being dismantled.

President Obama and his GOP rivals are sparing over gas prices. In an election year, that pocketbook issue could hurt the president, but Republican voters still have no clear cut nominee to face off in November anyway. Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney square off in Michigan on Tuesday, with poll numbers flipping between the two. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks with Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page about these and other news stories from the week.

On Tuesday night, Magic Johnson told reporters he's stepping down after a two-year stint as the president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers.

The probe of two Boeing plane crashes is focused, for the moment, on software. We examine how software has become a common fix for problems with hardware across industries, and how it can go too far.

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation is done and Attorney General Barr has sent a letter briefing the chair of the congressional judiciary committees. What can we expect in coming days?

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a previously scheduled hearing Tuesday on so-called red flag laws, which allow for the temporary removal of guns from individuals if they are deemed a risk.