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All this week, NPR's Farai Chideya has been on the road traveling from California to Georgia. Just before she wraps up her trip, she stops at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. Lawrence Pijeaux, the center's president and CEO, gives a tour.

Vice presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Sarah Palin met Thursday night in St. Louis for their only debate of the presidential campaign. They clashed on various topics including tax policy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and energy.

Somali pirates have seized their biggest prize to date — a supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of Saudi oil. Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed Somali president warns his government is losing its hold on power.

This Thanksgiving, the tastes of New Orleans will be missing or difficult to find for families now living far from their favorite Cajun or Creole spices. That's the case for a couple who evacuated from New Orleans and are spending Thanksgiving in Mount Rainier, Md.

The Bush administration and Congress are weighing how to respond to a slowing economy. At a Washington think tank on Thursday, some of the country's best-known economists gathered to discuss possible solutions.

President Bush welcomes the 10 members of the Iraq Study Group to the Roosevelt Room in the White House, where he received a preview of the recommendations they will offer for U.S. policy in rebuilding Iraq.

Santa Fe's Jean Cocteau movie theater near the Railyard which closed back in 2006 will be resurrected sometime this summer. That's the word from the…

Nearly 200 illegal immigrants have been arrested in New England during the largest fugitive operation of its kind. Most of those arrested had outstanding deportation orders for violent crimes.

Funeral services were held today for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

There was surprise and subdued celebration at the White House on Friday, following the unexpected announcement that President Obama is the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The prize committee recognized Obama for what it called his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."