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Guatemala's president is seeking the removal of the head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption body. The president, Jimmy Morales, is facing a graft scandal involving his brother and a son.

Paycheck, in theaters Dec. 25, is the seventh sci-fi movie based on the bizarre, reality-twisting books and stories by Philip K. Dick. The troubled author died in 1982, before seeing Hollywood turn his work into films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. Pat Dowell reports.

The House is scheduled to vote on a federal budget plan for fiscal year 2005, which starts in October. Both Democrats and Republicans are seeking ways to reduce the ballooning deficits predicted for coming years. But as the general election approaches, the debate on Capitol Hill is increasingly politicized. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Andrea Seabrook.

In Iraq, more than half of the population consists of women, but the nation's new interim constitution sets a compromise goal of giving women 25 percent representation in any elected parliament. That figure is not guaranteed, and Iraqi women are now mobilizing to ensure their voices are heard in any future government. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry trade blows on Iraq in new attack ads. A Bush ad uses Kerry's fondness for windsurfing to suggest he has too often changed his mind on issues. The Kerry camp calls the ad "tasteless and juvenile."

Milan Vaishnav's new book, When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics, examines why so many criminals become politicians in India — and why so many voters embrace them.

In North Carolina more people are registered as unaffiliated than Republican, according to recent data from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.…

Several leading members of Britain's Labor Party have resigned and Scottish leaders are considering pulling out of the U.K. Journalist David Torrance has the latest on the 'Brexit' vote fallout.

Durham-based visual artist Raj Bunnag, a self-described “political printmaker,” creates works with a strong perspective about history and the presence of white supremacy in our society. That hasn’t posed an issue with showing his work at galleries until this year, when he had two exhibitions canceled, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

For voters living in swing sates, the barrage of political ads has already been unprecedented. Now there is an app, Ad Hawk, that can help you figure out who's paying for all those ads. it works similarly to Shazam, a smartphone app that can identify songs.