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Political parties led by former Iraqi exiles appear to be in the strongest position to win power in Iraq's upcoming elections, largely as a result of the prominent positions they held in the now-disbanded U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Baghdad.

As President Bush campaigns through nine states this week, he is bringing along a former rival who has become a featured performer on the president's behalf. It's Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Republican who has shown uncommon appeal beyond his own party. Hear NPR's Brian Naylor.

Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak, president of the Potomac Strategy Group, discusses the Republican Party platform heading into the midterms and beyond.

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are both promising the voters change. But will the new president be able to deliver in a partisan, gridlocked Washington where the parties can regularly checkmate one another?

Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is the new chair of the Democratic Caucus. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a post he recently left, Emanuel was credited with helping to organize his party for the 2006 mid-term elections.

Work aprons, party aprons, Depression-era aprons. They're all part of The Apron Chronicles, a traveling exhibit managed by the Women's Museum in Dallas.

Federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan nine years ago. His new book, The Birthday Party, is a memoir of how he survived the 25-hour ordeal. Alpert writes of befriending his kidnappers and helping the FBI apprehend the gang.

Protests on the streets of Iran are nothing new, but this latest action has managed to break through communication barriers often imposed by the ruling party when dissension occurs.

The announcement Thursday comes just six weeks after Truss succeeded Boris Johnson, and amid weeks of criticism from opponents and members of her own party.

As voters in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, go to the polls, a third party candidate threatens to upset the status quo.