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The Iraqi National Assembly agrees on a president and two vice presidents during its third meeting, breaking weeks of deadlock. Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani is the new Iraqi president; a Shiite and Sunni were chosen as the two vice presidents.

In response to the recent kidnapping and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Florida legislators have proposed a law that would require registered sex offenders to wear electronic tracking devices. NPR's Ed Gordon speaks with Dr. Fred Berlin, the founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic and director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma; and Walter McNeil, chief of police for the Tallahassee, Fla., police department.

Immigration overhaul, reauthorizing the Patriot Act and the bankruptcy bill are among the issues awaiting Congress when it returns from spring recess. Reverberations are expected from congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case and House Majority Leader Tom Delay's verbal attack on federal judges.

Enough pieces of a bronze statue of Marjorie Tallchief have been recovered to restore it. The statue was cut into pieces that have been found at recycling centers in the Tulsa, Okla., area.

Locked Down, a new photography exhibit in California, examines the lives of formerly incarcerated women after parole. Krystal Greene reports.

We talk with Brad Bird, who wrote and directed the Academy Award-winning film The Incredibles, about a suburban family with superpowers. The mix of average characters and extraordinary abilities has turned the animated characters into celebrities.

WUNC's Jeff Tiberii shares the latest on the numerous scandals plaguing him and the state of the North Carolina race.

Author Saul Bellow died Tuesday at the age of 89. Bellow won many awards during his career, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. We hear him read an excerpt from Herzog, one of his three National Book Award-winning works.

President Bush's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency may have a confirmation problem. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) threatens to block Stephen Johnson's appointment unless an EPA study on children and pesticides is cancelled.

Storyteller Mitch Myers recalls an encounter on a subway platform with singer/songwriter Kathleen Mock. While he was waiting for a train, she was playing her song, "Waiting on a Train."