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U.S. Sen. Rob Portman has endorsed Republican Jane Timken in the crowded GOP primary to succeed him next year.

As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld prepares to testify Friday before a Senate panel investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, critics call for his resignation. President Bush has privately rebuked Rumsfeld for failing to tell him about pictures of prisoner mistreatment. A White House spokesman says Bush wants Rumsfeld to stay on the job. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

An Iranian-American scholar who had been jailed for months in Iran has been freed on bail. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was on the way to the Tehran airport in December when she was seized.

Unless Hollywood writers and studios reach a deal over the weekend, the Writers Guild of America will strike just after midnight next Monday. That could mean many TV shows will have to revert to re-runs. The writers and studios are at odds over how much writers should make in royalties when shows are resold on DVD or the Internet.

After nearly two years of negotiations, the future of Kosovo is still in dispute. Kosovo's Albanian majority are anxious to declare independence. But Serbia, which lost control of Kosovo as a result of NATO bombing in 1999, adamantly opposes full independence for the province. Today is the deadline for U.N.-sponsored talks.

Amid extra security, a funeral has been held for one of eight people shot in rural southern Ohio in what authorities describe as a cold-blooded massacre…

A driver who was high on marijuana when he caused a head-on collision that killed a woman and her daughter and injured two others has been sentenced to…

WVXU politics reporter Howard Wilkinson talked with news director Maryanne Zeleznik this morning on Ohio Gov. John Kasich's withdrawal from the GOP...

The Obama administration has given Ohio school leaders some summer homework with a new federal directive on transgender students and bathrooms in public...

WVXU politics reporter Howard Wilkinson talked with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik Monday morning about the impact President Obama's nomination of...