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Ted Cruz, Texas solicitor general and the drafter of a friend-of-the-court brief signed by 31 state attorneys general asking the Supreme Court to strike down the Washington, D.C., ban on handguns, says the court should clear up years of arguments and state strongly that the right applies to individual citizens.

With a looming recession, the Federal Reserve has taken an unusually active roll in trying to prevent a total collapse. Ken Kuttner, a former Fed staff economist, discusses the role the Fed is playing in the current economic turmoil.

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pleads not guilty to corruption charges after returning from exile. He remains very popular, particularly among Thailand's rural people and urban poor for his financial and social welfare policies.

The Bush Administration unveiled its plan Thursday for overhauling the vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets. It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame, and it proposed that mortgage brokers be licensed and added new voluntary guidelines.

Saying he looks at his brief tenure as "what might have been," New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday. The former state attorney general, who fought Wall Street and organized crime, was named as a client of a prostitution ring.

Recent news that a couple was compensated by the government for their daughter's autism-like symptoms after a series of routine vaccinations raises concern among parents about the developmental disorder. Pediatrician Dr. Marilyn Corder, talks about the couple's case, and what parents need to know.

The apparent unraveling of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career is playing like a soap opera in New York. Member station WNYC's Fred Mogul found a lot of people in New York City have dropped everything in favor of watching the real-life political drama unfold in the media.

Michele Norris talks with NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving and NPR Correspondent Audie Cornish about Tuesday's primary in Mississippi. The Magnolia State is the only state with a primary Tuesday. The next major primary is late next month in Pennsylvania. Cornish is with Barack Obama campaign supporters in Jackson, Miss.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has announced that he is resigning. Spitzer will step down on Monday and hand over the reins of power to Lt. Governor David Paterson. Spitzer had been under intense pressure to resign after federal law enforcement alleged that he had paid large sums of cash to a high-class call girl agency.

In today's Political Junkie, Ken Rudin talks about Spitzer's announcement that he is resigning as the governor of New York amid allegations that he was involved in a high-end prostitution ring. Also, a look back at the Mississippi primary and a look ahead to Pennsylvania.