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The pharmaceutical industry was one of the biggest contributors to Republican campaign coffers for the 2002 midterm elections, a new report shows. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, drug makers gave $14 million to Republicans, and just $5 million to Democrats. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

David Greene speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, Scott Horsley and Brian Naylor about The Des Moines Register's Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. The three reporters are riding in the event, also known as RAGBRAI, to explore the Iowa they didn't see on the presidential campaign trail.

American reporter Jill Carroll is released unharmed in Iraq, three months after she was kidnapped. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in an interview on Baghdad television. Her captors had demanded that female detainees be freed or Carroll would be killed.

For nearly eight years, married journalists Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre covered the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. During that time, their life was about reporting on street violence, suicide bombings — and starting a family.

Celebrity news website TMZ operates a lot like an intelligence agency, according to a piece in The New Yorker. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Nicholas Schmidle about TMZ's reporting tactics.

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that fewer jobs had been added to the work force than economists had expected. Plus, the unemployment rate stayed stuck at 8.2 percent. Unsurprisingly, Republicans pounced on those numbers to make their case for defeating President Obama.

The dreary February weather hasn’t stopped the fish from biting. Hear more with the FLW Fishing Report...Scott Ellison here, with the FLW weekly fishing…

The president of the United Automobile Workers will have tough words for his membership, according to a report in Monday's New York Times. He plans to tell them that the U.S. automobile industry is facing an unprecedented crisis that will require sacrifices from auto workers. Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace.

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the supposedly revolutionary blood-testing company Theranos, has been indicted for wire fraud and conspiracy. Carreyrou tells the story in his new book Bad Blood.

NPR'S Audie Cornish talks to Marwan Muasher, co-author of the Carnegie Endowment report called "Arab Fractures," about the crumbling of political institutions in the Middle East.