Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Florida had been a destination for people in the Deep South to get abortions, but on May first a six-week abortion ban goes into effect there, making the region the most restrictive for the procedure.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Luis Miguel Echegaray, ESPN soccer analyst, about the two teams in the race for the English Premier League soccer title with only three weeks left in the season.