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Commentator Lois Shea coaches youth softball in Warner, N.H. The team is made up of girls 10 and younger. Earlier in the season, Shea let the girls on the team suggest team names. They came up with things like "The Goats" "The Wiz" and "The Whales." Lois Shea has an essay in the book Mommy Wars, a collection published by Random House in March.

Lebanese civilians are fleeing from the fighting in the south of their country, heading north to find shelter in Beirut and elsewhere. The evacuees are looking for help wherever they can find it. Among those helping the displaced is Hezbollah.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reacted with outrage on the Senate flood Thursday to the USA Today cover story about National Security Agency (NSA) efforts to collect domestic phone call records. Noah Adams talks to David Welna about the reaction to the news on Capitol Hill.

The political crisis in Nepal is deepening. The country's main political parties have rejected a plan by King Gyanendra to hand over power, saying it's not enough. And protesters are taking to the streets.

Excess speed is blamed for Monday's rail disaster in Valencia, Spain. At least 41 people died when an underground train ran off its tracks and overturned. The accident occurred as thousands of visitors flocked to the city ahead of Pope Benedict's visit on Saturday.

Preliminary results of Iran's presidential election show that reformist cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is leading, while hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the second-leading vote getter. There are seven candidates in all, and a runoff vote is expected on June 24.

After being transplanted from a vibrant city life to the isolation of a small town, NPR listener and USA Weekend reader Ruth Kamps found solace in nature and inspiration in the pine tree growing outside her kitchen window.

Renee Montagne talks with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. He is in Washington with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who met with President Bush earlier this week. Abdullah discusses prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, recent anti-American protests and ongoing tensions in U.S.-Afghan relations.

Israel of releases nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners as part of a February agreement between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The former detainees were taken from jails to checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza.

A new report by Human Rights Watch disputes the Uzbek government's account of a brutal crackdown on protesters in the country's eastern Ferghana Valley. The report says government troops opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing as many as 500.