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Two days after the death of Moammar Gadhafi, Libyans are preparing to declare liberation in their country. The manner in which Gadhafi died remains a question, however, and the United Nations and human rights organizations want answers. Host Scott Simon checks in with NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in Tripoli about where things stand now in the country.

Iowa's 2012 presidential Caucuses are now just 11 weeks away. We may not be in the home stretch just yet, but you can feel it coming as the candidates chase after voters with increasing urgency. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR National Political Correspondent Don Gonyea, who's been in Iowa this past week, about the view of the 2012 race from the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

The Occupy D.C. movement on K Street is getting itself educated. NPR's Peter Overby checked in this week as they held a teach-in with Harvard Law School's Lawrence Lessig, who said protesters can take their government back from the influence of big donors by forging an alliance with the Tea Party grassroots.

The movements may disagree on many issues, but they seem to have similar opinions on the bank bailout, the federal deficit and the influence of corporations and money on Congress. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig says there's good reason both the left and the right agree that there is too much power in too few hands.

Tunisians are voting Sunday in the country's first free and democratic election. The small North African nation was the first to overthrow its dictator in a popular movement that soon spread to other authoritarian Arab nations. Now analysts say what happens in Tunisia will be key to democracy's future in the Arab world.

Moammar Gadhafi styled himself as Africa's king of kings and long pursued his grand plan to unite the continent under his rule. NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports on how his brutal end is resonating in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals gave a performance for the record books Saturday night in Game 3 of the World Series. They beat the Texas Rangers 16 to 7. NPR's Mike Pesca reports.

In a single 24-hour period, the National Park Service and National Geographic led a "treasure hunt" to catalog all the species in Arizona's Saguaro National Park. NPR's Ted Robbins takes us to the "BioBlitz."

European leaders are still working on an agreement aimed at getting ahead of the debt crisis in the euro zone. They were expected to unveil a deal at Sunday's European Union summit in Brussels, but have already said it will take another meeting to do it. Host Audie Cornish speaks with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

For most of the past few decades, congressional appropriators decided how the federal budget would be spent. but since the supercommittee was formed in August to find federal deficit cuts, the House and Senate appropriations committees have seen their responsibilities wane.