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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is pushing for new federal and state mine-safety regulations after two recent accidents in his state killed 14 miners. The new laws would focus on improving rescue efforts and communication.

A federal judge rules that a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart can become a class-action suit, encompassing 1.6 million current and former female employees. Wal-Mart said it would appeal the decision. The class-action status makes the suit the largest discrimination case ever brought against a private employer in the United States. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

John Lehman, a Republican member of the Sept. 11 commission, says new intelligence and captured documents suggest an officer in Saddam Hussein's militia was present at an al Qaeda summit in 2000 that was also attended by two of the Sept. 11 hijackers. CIA officials say they examined the evidence long ago and concluded the documents do not refer to the same man. Hear NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

The first changes were reflected in employees' Feb. 17 paycheck, the company announced Tuesday. Ohers will see the changes on their Feb. 24 paychecks.

An Arizona law banning ethnic studies violated students' constitutional rights, a federal judge said Tuesday.

All repairs on the impacted column are expected to be finished later this week.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role in the Montgomery bus boycott. But Parks was just one of many women who organized for years. In this episode, those women tell their own story.

Barbaro, the horse scrutinized by many for the strength and speed required to win the Triple Crown, is now under the watchful eyes of doctors and his owners, Gretchen and Roy Jackson. The thoroughbred colt underwent emergency surgery after shattering parts of his right rear leg in Saturday's Preakness Stakes.

Last week, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of U.S. v. $124,700 that Nebraska police were correct to seize money from a California man who'd been stopped for a speeding ticket. A drug-sniffing dog detected the smell of narcotics on the money.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested Monday in Serbia on genocide and other war crimes charges. He had evaded capture for more than a decade. Dejan Anastasijevic, a Serbian journalist in Belgrade, says Karadzic had been hiding in plain sight.