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The White House is inviting states to apply for waivers from the No Child Left Behind law. The proposal would cut some slack to 85 percent of the nation's better schools. But advocates for minority and special education students fear their students will fall off the map.

Back in 2009 when he campaigned to be New Jersey's chief executive, Gov. Chris Christie got help from Mitt Romney who visited the Garden State to campaign for his fellow Republican. On Tuesday, Christie returned the favor by publicly endorsing Romney's bid to be the Republican Party nominee.

The Israeli government and the Palestinian militant group Hamas announce an agreement on a prisoner exchange that will include Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants and held in Gaza for the past 5 1/2 years. Robert Siegel talks to Sheera Frenkel for more.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protest movement that was born in New York's financial district is now in its fourth week and has spread to scores of other cities. The affiliated protests continue in Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Ever since President Obama proposed his $447 billion jobs bill in a joint address to Congress last month, he has been campaigning for it nonstop. But Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to kill the measure. Now Democrats hope to consider the proposals piece by piece.

The parliament in Malta passed a controversial measure to expand Europe's bailout fund late on Monday. But to many young people in the tiny Mediterranean island nation, the question was never really in doubt. Despite all its economic problems, they see their future in the eurozone.

Guy Raz talks with NPR sports correspondent Mike Pesca about the numbers behind the NBA's labor troubles.

Only a few months ago, the bank Dexia was rated one of the most stable in Europe. But, within the past few days, it's become the first casualty of the Greek debt crisis, saved only by interventions by the Belgian and French governments. Robert Siegel talks with Stanley Pignal, Brussels correspondent for the Financial Times, for more.

The bill seeks to tax Chinese imports in an attempt to neutralize what some lawmakers see as an unfair advantage based on China's currency manipulation.

Slovakia, the second poorest of the 17 nations that use the euro, has complicated plans to help Greece and other debt-ravaged countries. The Slovakian parliament was due to be the last to approve the expansion of the eurozone bailout fund. But internal divisions in the ruling coalition caused the government to collapse instead.