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A pandemic and soaring oil prices would be a challenge for any incoming leader. But Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the son of dictator who abused Filipinos' rights, and his mother plundered billions.

Members of the prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood go on trial Tuesday in a southern California courtroom. Federal prosecutors have linked the white-supremacist gang to a string of murders and attempted murders in California prisons.

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

Singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn's debut album, Song of the Traveling Daughter, shows off her considerable talents playing the banjo. The record also features Bela Fleck, Ryan Hoyle of Collective Soul and Jordan McConnell of the Duhks.

Israeli troops storm a prison in Jericho and take custody of six Palestinian militants, including those accused of murdering an Israeli cabinet minister five years ago. The action prompts riots in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where foreign diplomatic missions are attacked and foreigners are kidnapped.

Vali Nasr, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the forthcoming The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, talks with Robert Siegel about recent sectarian violence in Iraq.

Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema decides that the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui can go forward, but without testimony and evidence key to the government's case. The judge halted proceedings Monday, warning government lawyers that they had violated her order not to coach upcoming witnesses.

As Iraqis ponder the hundreds of parties and thousands of candidates up for election Thursday, we hear from another Baghdad resident on his thoughts on the voting. Subhi Nadhum Tawfeeq is a political science professor at Baghdad University.

This week, we're hearing from various Iraqis as they prepare to vote in the Dec. 15. Yenar Jabbar is an English student at Baghdad University. She has her undergraduate degree, but no job. She spoke to NPR at the university cafeteria about her feelings on the elections and the U.S. occupation.

After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five before parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.

Ed Gordon explores some of the challenges and issues of DNA testing by individuals exploring their heritage with Richard Gabriel, CEO and president of DNAPrint Genomics, a genetic research company based in Sarasota, Fla., and Karla Holloway, English and law professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C.