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  • Three of the four major wireless companies are out with new plans for those who want the latest smartphone sooner. The plans, with names like Verizon Edge and AT&T Next, essentially let you rent a phone for six months or a year and then trade it in for a new one — but there's a catch.
  • The 57-year-old founder and head of SAC Capital Advisors is accused of allowing senior employees to make trades based on inside information.
  • President Obama did something no other holder of his office has ever had the life experience to do: As the first African-American president, he used the bully pulpit to explain black America to white America.
  • This week, Democrats dropped their threat to change Senate rules and strip the GOP minority of its right to filibuster executive branch nominees, and Republicans allowed up-or-down confirmation votes on several stalled appointments of President Obama. Here's how it happened, and why some think it might not last.
  • The move appears to be the beginnings of revived peace talks. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Friday that there is enough agreement to begin initial talks as early as next week.
  • Session musician Stephen Bruner has played bass in other people's bands for more than a decade. He can play metal, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. With his second album, he's stepping to the front of the stage.
  • Prosecutors and defense lawyers are wrangling over the details in the case against James Holmes, who is currently undergoing psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental state at the time of the shooting.
  • Two members of Congress want to preserve artifacts from American lunar missions with a national park on the moon, but there are some international hurdles to jump. Still, Space Policy Institute director Dr. Scott Pace says the bill raises intriguing questions about what the future of human-space interaction will look like.
  • A South Carolina woman, new to the Catholic Church, is on her way to Brazil to see the pope. She tells host Rachel Martin that she feels Pope Francis is a role model for young Catholics.
  • The pontiff, the first Latin American head of the Church, will be making his first papal trip abroad to the world's most populous Catholic country.
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