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A British magazine about business and global politics seems an unlikely hit among American readers. But The Economist is defying expectations. It has doubled its readership in the U.S. since 1993.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Adolphus Belk, Jr., a professor at Winthrop University in South Carolina, who says it is possible that the alleged shooter can be prosecuted under the act.

Israeli troops storm a prison in Jericho and take custody of six Palestinian militants, including those accused of murdering an Israeli cabinet minister five years ago. The action prompts riots in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where foreign diplomatic missions are attacked and foreigners are kidnapped.

Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema decides that the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui can go forward, but without testimony and evidence key to the government's case. The judge halted proceedings Monday, warning government lawyers that they had violated her order not to coach upcoming witnesses.

This week, we're hearing from various Iraqis as they prepare to vote in the Dec. 15. Yenar Jabbar is an English student at Baghdad University. She has her undergraduate degree, but no job. She spoke to NPR at the university cafeteria about her feelings on the elections and the U.S. occupation.

After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.

As Iraqis ponder the hundreds of parties and thousands of candidates up for election Thursday, we hear from another Baghdad resident on his thoughts on the voting. Subhi Nadhum Tawfeeq is a political science professor at Baghdad University.

Members of the prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood go on trial Tuesday in a southern California courtroom. Federal prosecutors have linked the white-supremacist gang to a string of murders and attempted murders in California prisons.

Vali Nasr, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the forthcoming The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, talks with Robert Siegel about recent sectarian violence in Iraq.

Appreciating Peoria and BUILDING a better community are the goals of nonprofit BUILD Peoria. Through fundraising and completing one community voted-on project each year, BUILD seeks to impact future generations. There are four semifinalists for this year’s project and voting ends May 31.