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In recent months, a swarm of controversies have erupted over issues of women's health — from the split in the Catholic church over employer coverage of contraceptives to the proposed ultrasound laws in Virginia and Texas to the uproar over funding for Planned Parenthood.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who proposed a budget last year that was controversial because of radical changes it would have made to Medicare, is making another run at his target. This time he has a Democratic ally, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. But progressive groups were already attacking the plan even before its official release Tuesday.

When it comes to health care in the U.S., no two states are more different than Texas and Massachusetts, which boast the highest and lowest rates of uninsured people, respectively. Those differences come into stark relief in the lives of Texan Melinda Maarouf and Massachusetts resident Peter Brook.

Appetite for mass rallies in Russia is waning, and a new breed of young Russian politicians is re-directing energy into politics at the most local level. Maxim Motin, 28, is one of them. As a newly elected municipal council member, he is focusing on street lights, not street protest.

The law, passed in 2005, got rid of the English Law concept of "duty to retreat" from a dangerous situation. Instead, a person can hold his ground and meet force with force — deadly if they feel is necessary.

If you want to know anything about America's greatest city, you've got to be willing to get grimy, says critic Maureen Corrigan. Two new books about New York — a novel and a narrative history — do more than put up with filth, they positively wallow in it.

Host Rachel Martin speaks with Nate Silver, who writes the FiveThirtyEight blog for The New York Times, about the mechanics of the GOP primary, the number of delegates apportioned so far and how future contests will determine the delegate count.

A week before Russia's presidential election, we hear a sampling of opinion from citizens traveling to and from Moscow from around Russia's vast territory. NPR's Corey Flintoff caught up with them at three train stations and asked them what their lives have been like under 12 year's of Vladimir Putin's rule and why they will or will not vote to return him to the presidency.

Syrians vote on a new draft constitution Sunday though the opposition has called for a boycott. Violence has been reported across the country. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon about the latest on the bombardment of Homs and other developments in Syria.

The de facto replacement for The News of the World, The Sunday Sun, premieres its first issue Sunday. Host Rachel Martin talks with British journalist Ray Snoddy about what this means for Rupert Murdoch's media empire.