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The Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses are on Saturday. The state was added to the early voting line-up in 2008 to bring more diversity to the process. But with no traditions in place and daytime caucuses, the campaigns face serious organizing challenges.

This week's military commissions of Guantanamo Bay detainees slogged or ground to a halt when the accused tried to fire their attorneys — again. Then excerpts shown from torture scenes in the film Zero Dark Thirty jolted the staid war court. The trials of some of the detention center's most prominent detainees have no end in sight even as President Obama hopes to close the Guantanamo facility.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times, about the fight over who should nominate Justice Scalia's successor, and the upcoming Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary.

Whatever Congress might come up with would certainly be controversial — and this is an election year. That hasn't stopped some lawmakers from taking sides in the privacy vs. national security debate.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he negotiated a deal to give the United Kingdom special status in the European Union. The deal follows a series of meetings between Cameron and other leaders.

Mayor Hillary Schieve says Reno needs to consider tighter security measures at city hall after some disturbing incidents. Our contributor, Bob Conrad of…

A new analysis shows that outside groups supporting Ted Cruz have run nearly double the ads of pro-Jeb Bush behemoth Right To Rise USA. Here's how the other candidates stack up leading into Saturday.

Read about the mental health of Black Lives Matter activists, what happens when authorities shoot a hospital patient and racial insensitivity in the workplace.

A ship with a multinational crew patrols the waters between Turkey and Greece to protect migrants' lives. They don't always succeed. "We can hear them screaming before we see them," says a volunteer.

It's back to paper and pencils after Tennessee decided to shut down computer testing statewide for the year.