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The televising of the O.J. Simpson murder trial 22 years ago ignited a national discourse on race and crime. Overwhelmingly, whites believed he was guilty; blacks believed him innocent. Could televising the Trayvon Martin trial have the opposite effect? John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a writer for the New Republic, offers his insight.

The conservative group that has seen some corporate donors flee because of its involvement in pushing for voter ID and stand-your-ground gun laws, has new troubles. Common Cause has filed a complaint with the IRS that the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, violated the limits of its charity tax status.

Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix over the weekend, but in a larger sense the winners were the race organizers. They managed to hold the race which was canceled last year by political unrest, which was part of the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Bill Law, of the British Broadcasting Corporation, talks to Steve Inskeep about the weekend's events in Bahrain.

The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., must wear an electronic monitoring device.

Twelve agents were accused of cavorting with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia. Six have already lost their jobs. One has been partially exonerated. Another 11 members of the U.S. military were also allegedly involved.

Also: Parts of Northeast get hit with spring snowstorm; U.S. and Afghanistan agree on defense plan; shelling resumes in Syria; John Edwards' trial begins in North Carolina.

Total student debt has gone through the roof. But the average debt per college grad has gone up much more slowly.

They argue prosecutors failed to turn over critical evidence that could have helped them assert their innocence.

If you were to photograph all of your Facebook friends, what would it look like? One photographer, Tanja Hollander, is on a mission to find out.

Three years ago, a Chicago man found historic documents in an abandoned house and took them to a rare-books dealer. The papers and books belonged to Richard T. Greener, a 19th century intellectual, who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University.