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Highlights of a turbulent week include rage at cartoons of the prophet Muhammad ... a deal on the USA Patriot Act; and the Katrina response. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News.

Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, penned the cartoon above in 1994 for Spin magazine. At the time, the cartoon might have seemed a little hysterical. Remember, this was pre-warrantless-wiretapping ...

As attorney general, Gonzales has adopted a different style than his predecessor, John Ashcroft, who rejected proposed changes to the Patriot Act. In hearings on the act held shortly after he took ...

On the eve of the expiration of the controversial Patriot Act drafted to expand ... dead by Navy SEALs and 57 percent said it wasn't a political assassination. And here might be the reason why ...

On holidays, I would take out my laptop and sandwich myself between my parents, turning on an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan ... was canceled this week. The political comedy show, which ...