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World Cup semifinals continue Wednesday. Defending champ France plays Morocco — the first African and majority-Arab nation to make it this far in the tournament. The winner faces Argentina on Sunday.

At a time when most pregnant women work, there are new efforts to keep companies from unfairly targeting employees because of a pregnancy. Allegations of pregnancy discrimination persist and have even risen in recent years despite a decades-old law against it.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Virginia state Senator L Louise Lucas about the shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake that killed five people.

A Senate fight over temporarily replacing Diane Feinstein on the judiciary panel is delaying the confirmation of several federal judicial nominees. Feinstein, who is 89, is recovering from shingles.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke are before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday to urge senators to act quickly on the $700 billion bailout package. Democrats seem to be unfied over the plan but some Republicans are hostile towards it.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing, which killed dozens and wounded nearly 200 people.

President Obama unveiled a plan to overhaul regulation of the nation's financial institutions Wednesday. He blamed the current economic crisis on a culture of irresponsibility by Wall Street, Main Street and Washington. Obama also said the government had to do more to protect consumers. The effort requires congressional action and would represent the most substantial revamping of the regulatory structure since the Great Depression.

California has until July 1 to come up with solutions to fix its $24 billion budget deficit. Joe Mathews, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and now a senior fellow with the New America Foundation, offers his insight. Joe Mathews, senior fellow with the New America Foundation, offers his insight.

The White House bristles at even the suggestion that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. In his speech Tuesday, President Obama listed the differences between the two conflicts. Gordon Goldstein, author of Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, says though some of the distinctions that Obama made were fair, there are strategic parallels between the two conflicts.

Senior officials have been deployed by the Bush administration to plead for more time for a troop surge to show results, after Congress voted in favor of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. But two Republican senators have introduced a bill calling for a pullout.