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Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday that President Pervez Musharraf is allowed to contest the Oct. 6 election, dismissing legal challenges that he could not run while remaining army chief. The ruling virtually assures Musharraf will remain Pakistan's leader.

They are keeping an eye on wind that kicked up Tuesday. It's milder than the extreme wind event November 6. Containment is up to 48% Tuesday.

The new top dog at the White House is Commander Biden, a nearly 4-month-old German shepherd. Meanwhile, rescue dog Major is moving out and a cat is scheduled to arrive soon.

Shahrad Nasajpour is among the six athletes on the Paralympic Refugee team this year. He is an Iranian refugee living in Arizona who will compete in the discus throw.

After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.

The former president's foundation ended years of secrecy by naming its donors. The information dump came about to stave off problems that could sink Hillary Clinton's Cabinet job. The list included enough big money and enough big names to catch the attention of conservatives, journalists and bloggers.

The Academy Awards are a little more than two weeks away.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, about the questions he has surrounding the U.S. military strikes on boats near Venezuela.

Djokovic bowed out with a 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to 28th-seeded Alexei Popyrin of Australia, another shocking result at Flushing Meadows one night after Carlos Alcaraz exited.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic to preview the College Football Playoff and upcoming bowl season games.