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Tuesday's top race is in Ohio, where voters are set to pick nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. Redistricting has also affected some of the state's closely watched House races.

It's not that there are too many bad shows. It's that there are too many perfectly fine ones. That has implications for jobs in Hollywood.

Washington D.C. video store clerks Adam Robinson and Scott Mueller have had enough of utterly depressing movies winning big at the Oscars. NPR's Neda Ulaby asked the pair to give their take on this year's Oscar race.

A team of three women have won the right to represent the United States at the Athens Olympics later this year in a new sport: "Yngling" class sailing. With an average age of 40, the team is older than most other Olympian athletes -- but these women say the extra years they've spent out on the water are the key to their success. NPR's Philip Davis reports.

Senior news analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that one key question still looming over the planned power transfer in Iraq -- scheduled for June 30 -- is what the status of U.S. troops will be under a sovereign Iraqi government.

Last year, the state of Massachusetts saw some 36,000 admissions into heroin treatment programs. In Boston, things have gotten so bad that a group of everyday people decided to take matters into their own hands by forming the South Boston Family Resource Center. NPR's Chris Arnold reports in the second of a five-part series on a growing addiction crisis.

Trump endorsed Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose ahead of Ohio's primaries on Tuesday. LaRose told NPR in January that candidates not conceding was a "really dangerous thing."

President Bush calls for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, saying he wants to stop activist judges from changing the definition of the institution. His remarks come as court decisions in Massachusetts and city officials in San Francisco have opened the door to gay marriages. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Don Gonyea.

The House of Representatives votes to pass the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. The so-called "cheeseburger bill" limits the food industry's liability in cases of plaintiffs alleging their obesity was caused by eating unhealthy food. Hear NPR's Melissa Block.

A new company is helping motorists in New York, Washington and San Francisco fight their parking tickets online. Parkingticket.com says customers beat tickets at least 70 percent of the time. San Francisco officials dispute that figure and say motorists don't need help from a private company to get justice in traffic court. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.