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Stock car racing is one of America's favorite spectator sports. For the drivers at Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., racing's an all-consuming passion that defines them and their families. Drivers from the Adirondacks, Vermont and southern Quebec head to the track on Saturdays to race cars they've built themselves.

Gorillas often get a bad rap, but folks who work with them say they're as much gentle as giant. On a recent trip to scope out the primates, an NPR producer trekked into the Virunga mountains of East Africa, where more than half of the world's mountain gorillas live.

Jobless college graduates regularly march through the streets at appointed times, wearing color-coded vests. It's all part of an effort to secure a government job. But critics say that creating more government workers is not a solution to Morocco's economic woes.

When it comes to buying cars, women do their homework — and it pays off. A new report from LeaseTrader.com shows that women "ask different and more thorough questions."

Bad weather moved across the South Sunday night and into Monday morning. Tornadoes were reported in Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. In Alabama, some of the worst damage occurred in areas that had already been hit by heavy storms before.

People in Nacogdoches, Texas, have rolled out the welcome mat for hundreds of refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, who moved here to work at a chicken processing plant. Though the mayor admits that immigration can be a touchy issue, residents have offered support to their new neighbors.

Maybe you've never heard of Kris Kobach. But some immigration advocacy groups say an endorsement from the Kansas secretary of state is going to cost Mitt Romney the Hispanic vote and — should Romney become the Republican nominee — the general election.

In his latest novel, Thomas Mallon takes a fresh look at the scandal that brought down the Nixon administration, re-imagining it through the eyes of the cast of characters involved.

Two American military officers were shot and killed today in the heavily guarded Interior Ministry building in Kabul. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks to Kabul bureau chief Quil Lawrence about the shootings, which follow five days of riots and protests over the burning of Koran's at a NATO base earlier this week.

The opposition is keeping up the pressure on Syrian security forces with repeated attacks, and Syria President Bashar Assad has shown no signs of moving toward a cease-fire. Against this backdrop, the "Friends of Syria" are gathering in Turkey.