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A federal judge and special prosecutor have harsh words, however, for the government's lapses in evidence-sharing during Stevens' 2008 trial. Stevens was convicted, but while he was appealing the government dropped its case.

The Secretary of State's office said backers of a plan to legalize recreational marijuana fell 679 signatures short of what was needed to put the initiated statute on the November ballot. Backers of legalization say they plan to collect more signatures during the next ten days, the so-called "cure period," to ensure that issue will be before voters this fall.

The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol needs to get 125,000 signatures to be placed on the November ballot.

The United Nations Security Council is about to receive a report on Iran's nuclear program. The watchdog agency is expected to report that Iran has defied a U.N. order to stop enriching uranium.

President Bush defends the U.S. mission in Iraq, saying that calls for American troops to leave the country are premature. The president warned that the situation would only worsen without U.S. troops -- and that "chaos in Iraq would be very unsettling in the region."

Adila, a 6-year-old Afghan girl with a congenital heart defect, had life-saving surgery in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday. She's in the cardiac intensive care unit, but is stable.

The headless bronze statue is valued at $20 million and is alleged to have been looted from Turkey in the 1960s before being sold to the museum.

NPR photographer David Gilkey has photographed in extreme situations — from the surge in Afghanistan, to bombings in Gaza, to the tsunami in Japan, but nothing could have prepared him for what he saw in the village of Barangay 68 in Tacloban City, Philippines.

President Park Geun-hye says the captain did little to help the hundreds on board escape. More than 60 bodies have been recovered. More than 230 people, most of them high school students, are missing.

"I have the honor of becoming the first Black leader in any European country," he said upon taking office.