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On Friday, Warina Zaya Bahou becomes a U.S. citizen in Sterling Heights, Mich. She's an immigrant from Iran and was born in 1900. She will become the second-oldest person to be naturalized as an American.

One of the first things he will propose is merging commerce and trade operations. An announcement is due later this morning.

He's also given Comedy Central's Jon Stewart control of his SuperPAC. What high jinks will they get up to?

Also: evangelical leaders try to find a presidential candidate they can support; Myanmar releases more political prisoners; Saturday's Broncos-Patriots game could be a ratings blockbuster.

Maybe even if it weren't a general-election year, President Obama would still be proposing that Congress give him the power to merge federal agencies to make the government smaller and more efficient. But it is an election year and the president's proposal gives him a way to counter GOP charges that he's a big-government Democrat.

Mitt Romney's campaign has a new TV ad meant to counter attacks on his career at private-equity firm Bain Capital, using the same defense it has ever since his rivals for the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination started taking populist jabs at him.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won a tough fight to strip most public-sector unions of their collective bargaining rights. He now faces a recall effort. In Indiana, politicians want to exempt nonunion employees from paying dues when working alongside union workers. Host Michel Martin speaks with journalists from the two states.

Tell Me More editor Ammad Omar and host Michel Martin comb through listeners' comments about a recent interview with conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, and Martin's commentary on restoring civility in election campaigns. They also update stories about a FAMU hazing victim and state-sponsored forced sterilization.

Standard & Poor's said its downgrades reflect its belief that the eurozone hasn't done enough to mitigate its debt crisis. The downgrades could have deep implications for the health of the monetary union.

The newspaper plans to report Saturday about what the former Penn State football coach has to say concerning the scandal involving one of his former assistants. It cost Paterno his job.