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Iraqi's interim Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari is at the center of a growing struggle to lead the country's new government. While Jaafari is the chosen leader of the Shiite that won the most votes in Iraqi elections, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is vying to keep his post.

Ten is an arbitrary number, so NPR's entertainment critic Bob Mondello offers his top 24 movies of 2002. Mondello says 2002 was a record year for box office sales and a better year than 2001 for movie quality. His list ranges from blockbuster adventure to documentary.

Also: Trump criticizes North Korea and China; Syrian rebels put a truce on hold, claiming Syrian regime violations; and China has dispatched its first freight train to Britain.

Also: Syria's military says it controls nearly all of Aleppo; a New Orleans jury convicts the man who killed former NFL player Will Smith; and a cyclone makes landfall in India.

Also: Apparent U.S. drone strikes resume in Pakistan; Hurricane Cristina is a category four storm; and former President George H.W. Bush will celebrate his 90th birthday today by skydiving.

Also: President Trump will talk up his infrastructure ideas today in Washington; Japanese lawmakers permit the Emperor to abdicate; and the Pittsburgh Penguins win Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final.

Also: Vice President Biden talks to Florida Jewish leaders about the Iran deal; a search continues for the killers of an Illinois officer; and a lost sheep is finally sheared of 88 pounds of fleece.

The budget doesn’t have a property tax increase, though it does include increases for fees such as storm water services. Charlotte will raise its minimum pay for full-time employees to $24 an hour, as well as providing additional raises for police and fire department employees.

Some people think competition is an art. Others believe it's a skill. A new book suggests it might be neither — and that there is a science behind winning. Host Michel Martin speaks with authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.

Top stories include: President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will meet for their first debate tonight; the U.S. Border Patrol releases the name of the agent slain yesterday at the U.S. Mexican border.

A Russian named Grigory Perelman, is credited with helping solve a famous 100-year-old math problem. Both the problem and the man who solved it are a bit of a puzzle.

The rapper's eighth album scored his best-selling debut week ever, but the raw numbers don't tell the whole story of its success. Meanwhile, Shaboozey returns to the top of the songs chart.

The program has slid back into its former losing state as the 14-year run of David Cutcliffe fizzled in the final two seasons.

The latest album by Korean pop group Stray Kids debuted at the top of this week's Billboard 200 chart, and another K-pop sensation, Jimin from BTS, landed at No. 2. Shaboozey keeps the week's top song.

An incredibly strong pool of artists entered this year's Tiny Desk Contest. And though there's just one winner, there were so many more entries our judges loved.

At any given point in 2009, World Cafe host David Dye's Top 10 list would inevitably look different. So consider this a snapshot — and otherwise subject to change at any time. Some picks won't be new to most readers, but others qualify as left-field musical discoveries.

COVID-19 knocked out a couple of North Carolina college teams from their conference tournaments. A few others, meanwhile, made the NCAA, and former Panthers quarterback Cam Newton got a new contract.

It’s Time Out for Sports on WFAE. It's March and that usually means March Madness with college basketball, NBA playoffs, baseball spring training and so…

It's harder to afford homeownership than it's been in decades as a steep run-up in both prices during the pandemic and more recently interest rates hit buyers from both sides.

Violinist and conductor Joshua Bell is going to be joining Lance Bass and a Shark Tank judge in Atlantic City. (And one of the country's foremost classical music critics is a preliminary rounds judge.) Is there a classical music/beauty pageant axis we just didn't know about?