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The Labor Department reports on job gains for July Friday morning. Forecasters expect the report to show a gradual cooling of the job market, with a still-low unemployment rate.

Justin Salas has been legally blind for 16 years. He took up rock climbing after he lost his vision and says it has taught him to be brave and learn to adapt.

Kentucky Derby champion Barbaro was severely injured at this weekend's Preakness race in Maryland. But instead of euthanizing the horse, his owners decided on complex surgery in an attempt to repair damage to the horse's leg. Noah Adams speaks with a horse-surgery expert about Barbaro's condition.

The Treasury Department has announced that it's ready to act to avoid a collapse of nation's three largest auto companies. This, after the U.S. Senate rejected a $14 billion loan to Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.

The Iraqi parliament passes a security pact that allows American troops to stay in the region for an additional three years. The accord was endorsed after the ruling coalition reached an understanding on a separate measure with opposition lawmakers. NPR's Ivan Watson gives Steve Inskeep an update from Baghdad.

It'll take a lot of investment and innovation to get the U.S. to run on clean energy by 2050. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm just went on the road help roll out the effort.

Hillary Clinton won a narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday and lost by a significant margin to Barack Obama in North Carolina. Howard Wolfson, communications director for Clinton's campaign, talks with Michele Noris about how Clinton can get from here to the nomination, and what her pitch is to superdelegates who may be moving closer to endorsing Obama.

In Iran Wednesday, thousands of people marched in protest of last weekend's election results. The ongoing support for reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is the most dramatic political uprising in Iran since 1979. The Iranian government is trying to block media coverage of the protests. Newsweek's Middle East correspondent Babak Dehghanpisheh offers his insight.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, beating Hillary Clinton by a margin of more than 10 percent. The victory was important for Obama who won the strong support of working-class voters. Republican presidential contender John McCain cemented his frontrunner status by beating Mike Huckabee.

There is still no indication the trapped miners are alive after being cut off by a mountain of rock some 1,500 feet underground. Early Friday, crews drilling holes in a Utah mountain lowered a microphone to the spot where the collapse occurred, but heard no sounds. The mine's owner remains hopeful.