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Salt Lake City, Utah – In the early 90's, a tourist from Germany was riding a ski lift in Park City as he confidently proclaimed that Utah would never…

Will the tale about Mitt Romney strapping the family Irish setter to the roof of his car actually hurt him with voters?

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum swept caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and the Missouri primary, gaining considerable ground on Mitt Romney's primary lead. NPR's Ken Rudin and Dan Balz, of the Washington Post, recap the week in politics.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the heir apparent to the presidency, visited Muscatine, Iowa Wednesday. He spent a week with a family there in 1985 to learn about American agriculture. Des Moines Register reporter Kyle Munson discusses the relationships foreign leaders form with U.S. towns.

Li Keqiang, who is in line to become China's next premier, has a very different resume than other Chinese leaders. He speaks English well, translated a book by a prominent British judge, and mingled with activist students when he attended Peking University three decades ago.

By Andrea Smardonhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kuer/local-kuer-1003730.mp3Salt Lake City, UT – A few years before the 2002 Games,…

In a state so auto-industry dependent, it would seem dubious to call for GM and Chrysler to go through the regular bankruptcy process with all their uncertainties and pain. Experts inside and outside the industry at the time and since said bankruptcies would have meant millions of jobs lost. But Romney's position could appeal to many Michigan conservatives who opposed the bailouts.

The case was brought by a group of students who say the ban has led to a big decline in minority enrollment at state universities. At issue is whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will overrule itself because of a new Supreme Court case.

In some fairly horrible news for Romney, he's not just having trouble persuading Republican voters he's conservative; the more he professes his conservatism, the less they apparently believe him.

Taking the primaries handily, Henrique Capriles said it was time to end Chávez's socialist experiment. Capriles says he admires Brazil's "modern left" economic model.