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A shooting that injured three women in a hair salon this week may have been a hate crime and could be linked to two other recent shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans, Dallas police say.

The Bush administration neither confirms nor denies allegations that the United States has run covert flights and prisons in Europe. Despite keeping mum on the reports, the administration has maintained its practices have been lawful.

Since U.S. immigration laws were revamped in the 1990s, tens of thousands of immigrants who've committed a crime have been rounded up for deportation. In the first of two reports, NPR investigates allegations that guards beat detainees and terrorized them with dogs at one New Jersey jail.

Lobbying scandals continue to rumble through Washington, D.C. Does life on Capitol Hill mirror the ethical behavior of public servants in foreign countries overseas? Unfortunately, it seems it does.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Iran's defiant action -- breaking the seals on uranium enrichment centrifuges -- is a harbinger of deep troubles to come.

The rope used in the incident was allegedly one of several that had been tied to the tree for a performance by a student organization years ago.

NPR's Noah Adams reports on a bottleneck at the biggest port in the United States. Demand for cheap goods from Asia has never been higher, but container ships sometimes have to wait in long lines to unload their goods.

NASA scientists are increasingly confident they will retrieve useful scientific data from the crushed remains of the Genesis spacecraft. The recovery effort is something approaching archeology, as scientists dig shards of equipment out of the ground. NPR'S Howard Berkes reports.

Flat-screen televisions, iPods and the Internet are radically changing how viewers consume video programming. In the first of a three-part series of reports on the future of television, Rick Karr looks at the ways technology is changing how viewers watch TV.

Lauren Handy was separately indicted this week on federal charges alleging that she was part of a group that blocked access to a Washington, D.C., reproductive health center.