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In advance of Super Tuesday, we've sent four reporters to four of the key states voting Feb. 5 to offer a snapshot at what's on voters' minds. Jason Beaubien reports from Missouri, Jeff Brady is in Colorado, Kathy Lohr checks in from Georgia, and David Schaper joins us from Illinois.

The former New York mayor is expected to pull out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after poor showings in early primaries and caucuses. New Yorkers react to his likely departure.

Microsoft has plenty of reasons to want to acquire online giant Yahoo — 80 billion reasons, in fact. Online ad revenues are expected to double by 2010, reaching $80 billion, and Microsoft is eager to get into the game — if for no other reason than to slow rival Google's historic growth.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon joins efforts to calm post-election violence in Kenya. Negotiations to end the crisis were postponed Thursday after a second opposition lawmaker was killed — one of more than 850 deaths in a month of unrest.

NPR's Julie Rovner says the Democrats' health care plans would likely cover more of the nation's 47 million uninsured, but the Republicans' plans might bring bigger changes to the system.

After an exceedingly cordial one-on-one debate Thursday night, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama head back to the down-and-dirty of the campaign trail, where recent rhetoric had sharpened.

Sen. John McCain may be the current Republican front-runner in the presidential race, but former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee insists that the contest is far from over. Huckabee discusses his campaign, his fellow candidates and his high hopes for Super Tuesday.

On Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama rode a wave of support from African-American voters to an overwhelming victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary. In a special broadcast from Morgan State University, Neal Conan hosts a discussion about the intersection of race and politics.

The Department of Homeland Security will begin asking people crossing into the U.S. by land for passports or other proof of citizenship. Critics predict confusion and many border-area businesses oppose the idea.

Missed evidence, ignored clues, political considerations--investigative journalist Philip Shenon examines the shortcomings of the 9/11 Commission.