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Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become an international problem — and an international business. The issues of criminality and the potential for violence aside, a closer look at the "business model" of piracy reveals that the plan makes economic sense.

President Barack Obama arrives in Ghana on Friday for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.

Now that it's emerging from bankruptcy in record time, what's next for GM? Getting out of bankruptcy is one thing — building and selling millions of cars that consumers want may be a bigger challenge.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, answered questions Tuesday from several members of a Senate panel at her confirmation hearing. At issue were her handling of the New Haven firefighters' case and previous statements about life experience and impartiality.

One day after New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer admitted involvement with prostitution, NPR's Mike Pesca reports on how the news is playing in Albany.

The Dalai Lama on Tuesday said he would step down as the leader of a Tibetan government in exile if protesters in Tibet continued their violent protests. China's Premier Wen Jiabao blamed the Dalai Lama directly for the anti-Chinese riots in Tibet's capital.

Patients are traveling to China to receive experimental stem-cell treatments not offered in the United States. One company claims it has restored vision to blind children, raising controversy in both China and the U.S.

Sen. Barack Obama delivered what his campaign called a "major address on race, politics and unifying our country" in Philadelphia on Tuesday. NPR's Mara Liasson tells Renee Montagne that the speech is very powerful, very complex and "will likely be remembered as one of the most important speeches on race that a politician has ever given."

Tuesday's case centers on Washington, D.C.'s gun control law, which is the strictest in the nation. Guests discuss the case and listen to clips from the proceedings. It is the first time in nearly 70 years that the U.S. Supreme Court has entered the debate over the right to bear arms.

JP Morgan Chase will acquire the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns at the fire-sale price of $2 a share, a deal quickly approved over the weekend by the Federal Reserve, which also approved a cut in its emergency lending rate to financial institutions by a quarter-point to 3.25 percent. The moves stirred fear in foreign markets.