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NPR's Emily Harris reports on today's rally by the National Organization for Women. Called Emergency Action for Women's Lives, the rally is targeting Senators who have the power to appoint Supreme Court Justices, and marks the beginning of a four-year campaign.

President Bush visited New Jersey this week to press for his tax cut proposal and to court one Democratic Senator in particular. From member station WNYC in New York, Andrea Bernstein reports.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the beginnings of union organization among illegal workers, a previously non-organized part of the workforce. Aubrey focuses on hundreds of workers at a poultry plant in Selbyville, Delaware, that are beginning to speak up.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Brussels on the ongoing trial of war crime atrocities in Rwanda. This is the first time war crimes have been tried outside of an international tribunal.

Despite the negative publicity of the foot and mouth epidemic in England, British officials are celebrating higher than expected tourism over the past spring break. But as NPR's Julie McCarthy reports, tourism in rural communities is still hurting.

NPR's Alex Van Oss reports Lawrence Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. His decisions to change the Smithsonian's current system have drawn sharp criticism from current staff as well as outsiders.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on space tourist Dennis Tito who has achieved his dream of going to space. NASA complained it would be a distraction, but Russian space officials allowed him to buy a seat on their ship.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on the Russian president's efforts to tighten Moscow's reins on regional governments. A year after Vladimir Putin's election, he has failed to follow through on his pledge to curb the power of Russia's governors.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing that an American citizen has been held by Chinese authorities for over a month without charge. The Chinese born academic, who now holds a U.S. passport, was detained in late February in southern China.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports on a re-creation of the original game of baseball. The Genesee Country Village and Museum, near Rochester, New York, spent about $200,000 to build an authentic wooden baseball stadium.