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How will candidates use Supreme Court rulings to attract voters? French authorities say they're calming protests that began after the police killing of a 17-year-old. Twitter is limiting tweet views.

The plan would replace insurance subsidies for low-income families with tax credits for everyone, eliminate the requirement to buy health care, and end taxes on medical devices.

Microsoft is buying Nokia's mobile phone business and licensing key patents for $7.2 billion. Microsoft is aiming to boost its share of the smartphone market, which is dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iPhone. The deal may also provide a hint of who will take over when Microsoft's CEO leaves.

The government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is making waves far off American shores. China is watching the events closely because some 10 percent of China's gross domestic product is invested with the troubled mortgage giants. NPR's Adam Davidson talks with host Jacki Lyden about China's stake in the U.S. mortgage industry.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has reversed course, saying the government will not buy up banks' troubled assets. Instead, he has said, the administration will use part of the bailout money to buy stock in banks in an attempt to encourage them to lend.

Who wants to buy a bankrupt chain like Juicy Couture or Pier One? Someone owns these names — and makes millions of dollars on them. Here's what business is like in the shadow world of undead brands.

More Americans are renting, rather than buying their home. David Greene talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times in 2014. The case gained national attention after the police dashcam video was released.

2: Adventure writer TIM CAHILL. CAHILL writes in a self-deprecating way about his death-defying experiences around the world. His accounts of adventures in caves, mountains, deserts, and rapids appear in his collections, "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg,"and "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh." He's also a columnist for "Outside Magazine." Last summer, CAHILL traveled to the North Pole on an old Soviet Ice-breaker, and currently he is working on a book describing his travels in the unexplored and uninhabited Ndoke Forest of the northern Congo. (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 4/5/89.)Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. THEROUX is no ordinary travel writer: his books are about exotic voyages, some by train, and others by foot. His work includes "The Great Railway Bazaar," "The Old Patagonian Express," and "The Kingdom By The Sea." He's also a novelist, perhaps best known for "The Mosquito Coast," which became a film starring Harrison Ford. THEROUX'S most recent book, published this past February, is a fictional work titled "Millroy the Magician" (Random House). (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 7

1: NICHOLAS PILEGGI (pill-LEH-GEE) discusses his book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (Simon & Schuster Oct. 1995) It is based on the true story of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and his account of how the mob controlled several casinos in Las Vegas in the 1970s and early 80s. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the new movie based on "Casino." A film directed by Martin Scorcese starring Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci. Pileggi's best-selling book Wiseguy was used as the basis for the film "Goodfellas." Pileggi lives in New York City