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U.S. officials confirm the FBI is investigating whether Ahmad Chalabi told Iranian agents that the United States had broken their country's communications code. Chalabi, a formerly exiled Iraqi leader now back in Baghdad, provided the United States with details, now discredited, about Saddam Hussein's weapons program. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

Multiple factors contributed to disaster

Charges against defendants going all the way up to ex-Governor Rick Snyder could be thrown out

Former President Bill Clinton signed his new book at a Harlem bookstore Tuesday, and was greeted like a rock star. NPR's Allison Keyes reports.

Michigan residents were not responsible for the overpayments and will not be required to pay them back.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Sandra Dibble of The San Diego Tribune about Tuesday's murder of journalist Francisco Ortiz Franco in the sprawling border city of Tijuana, Mexico. Ortiz Franco was a founding editor of Zeta, a weekly magazine known for investigating drug trafficking and corruption.

A ruling by a federal appeals court in Philadelphia thwarts the media ownership deregulation package passed by the Federal Communications Commission in June 2003. The FCC had loosened rules governing the number of television and radio stations a single company could own in the same market. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Jim Zarroli.

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

A tenuous cease-fire with the militia of radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has yet to take full hold in the holy city of Najaf. Units tied to Sadr fired mortar rounds at U.S. forces at a bridge to neighboring Kufa. It's unclear how much control Sadr has over his fighters. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Eric Westervelt.

A Baghdad family whose 12-year-old son was killed by U.S. soldiers last summer is trying to find a legal avenue to file for compensation. The U.S. Army says the family has been paid $3,500.00. The family denies that. No independent court is available to hear the dispute. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.