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From the Eastern Seaboard to the Pacific Northwest, there's a colorful and compelling roster of political contests on Tuesday. Many of them have national implications, including a gubernatorial contest in New Jersey and a special congressional runoff in Alabama.

David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah, who supported a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to consider a bipartisan solution. NPR's Tamara Keith weighs in on the issue.

Here is a reminder of some of what he has said - and where the US is now.

The American economy depends on truckers. Technology is promising to transform this industry with new driver-assistance features that are meant to make the job safer and less demanding.

Questions about who would host the Academy Awards lingered ever since the scheduled host, comedian Kevin Hart, dropped out in December.

School begins today in Lafayette, La., for 30,000 students in the district and more than 4,000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. For the hundreds of thousands of students and their families displaced by the storm, getting back to their studies is a huge step towards putting their lives back together.

France is reeling after nine nights of violence in poor immigrant communities. In one of the Paris suburbs hit by rioting, citizens marched for peace Saturday. The street violence has sparked a political crisis, with calls for the interior minister to resign.

Chappy Hardy, a.k.a. the Man from Hunger, was forced by Hurricane Katrina to leave his beloved New Orleans. But his search for good, economical eating continues in New York. He finds a low-priced, top-notch burger in the East Village.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono meets with President Bush this week. As the two leaders discuss economic reform and human rights in Indonesia, efforts to rebuild areas devastated by a tsunami at the end of 2004 continue.

Some of the country's best young classical musicians congregate in Miami each year to participate in the New World Symphony. In the first of a three-part series following the symphony, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the orchestra's artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas.