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Figures from the Commerce Department show foreign employers added 3.4 million U.S. workers between 1986 and 2001 -- almost equaling the 3.5 million jobs U.S. companies moved offshore in the same period. Department data suggests many white-collar service jobs are also flowing from abroad to the United States. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

The U.S.-backed Haitian Council of Sages chooses businessman Gerard Latortue as Haiti's interim prime minister. The council noted Latortue's experience in the United Nations and frequent visits to Haiti as qualities that make him a good candidate, despite his living outside of Haiti for most of the past 40 years. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and council member Anne-Marie Issa.

A large explosion destroys the Mount Lebanon Hotel in downtown Baghdad, sparking fires, damaging nearby buildings and causing an unknown number of casualties. Rescuers are still pulling bodies from the rubble. Earlier, angry Iraqis pushed back U.S. soldiers trying to help. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand and Los Angeles Times reporter John Daniszewski in Baghdad.

For decades, U.S. manufacturing firms have moved factory jobs overseas to cut payroll costs. Now, an increasing number of technology jobs are being sent overseas to countries such as India, Russia and the Philippines. Commentator -- and programmer -- Paul Ford is struck by the irony that the system built by programmers is the very mechanism that allows these jobs to move overseas. Paul Ford writes online at ftrain.com.

Supreme courts in many states are debating whether to define marriage as a union between opposite genders. But in recent rulings, judges are treating gay and lesbian couples as if they are married -- especially when it comes to dividing assets and assigning child custody when couples split up. NPR's Tovia Smith reports.

Assuming an on-stage microphone had been turned off on Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry was heard describing the Bush-Cheney administration as "crooked." Republicans reacted angrily, but President Bush also has made embarrassing off-mic comments that ended up on the air.

NPR's Juan Williams talks to Mary Beth Cahill, campaign manager for Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. Cahill says Kerry plans to respond forcefully to negative ads by the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

One year after the U.S.-led war in Iraq, a media-led poll of Iraqis finds many are optimistic but unclear about their future. A majority of those surveyed say they're better off than they were before the war. But many say they lack confidence in occupying forces, and only about half prefer democracy over a strong leader or Islamic state. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and Gary Langer, director of polling for ABC News.

Senior news analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that terrorist bombings in Madrid and the surprise outcome of the Spanish election may spur more countries in Europe to re-evaluate their relationship with the United States.

Ten years ago, after the Gulf War, two Islamic scholars started an interfaith music festival in Morocco to promote peace. Now a celebrated institution, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is on its first U.S. tour. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports. Hear music performed at Fes.