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Obama To Fill Transportation Chief Slot

President Obama is expected to nominate Mayor Anthony Foxx of Charlotte, North Carolina, to be the next transportation secretary. Current head Ray LaHood said he would step down in January after four years in the position.

Monica Youn, who joined NPR as a NewsPoet <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/27/151517039/newspoet-monica-youn-writes-the-day-in-verse">last year</a>, works as a lawyer. She says that poetry appears in law more often than you might think — but nobody calls it poetry.

From Dissections To Depositions, Poets' Second Jobs

Great poetry almost never leads to great paychecks. Even award-winning poets need to pay the bills. Many teach, but others are doctors, scientists, lawyers, undertakers or even market analysts. In celebration of National Poetry Month, writer David Orr takes a look at the secret lives of poets.

Firearms for sale at a gun show in Annapolis, Md., on April 14.

Sen. Manchin Says Background Checks Bill Will Pass Next Time

The West Virginia Democrat says there was "some confusion" about the gun legislation when it failed to get enough votes in the Senate. So he's going to reintroduce the bill. It would expand background checks to sales made at gun shows and online.

Pitino Keeps Promise, Gets Tattoo

Once Louisville won the NCAA men's basketball title, there was only one thing for head coach Rick Pitino to do. He promised his players that if they won the title, he'd get a tattoo. A Louisville spokesman tweeted a photo of the 60-year-old coach's back, where his new tattoo is located.

Mary Thom, seen in an undated photo, was "one of the great writers, editors, and visionaries of the women's movement," said Julie Burton, president of The Women's Media Center.

Book News: Feminist Icon Mary Thom Dies In Motorcycle Crash

Also: Photographing the library at Guantanamo Bay; authors annotating their own work; and the best books coming out this week.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as seen in a video taken on April 15 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

I Would Have Stopped Him, 'Misha' Says Of Bombing Suspect

Some of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relatives have alleged that a mysterious man may have turned him toward radical Islam. That man — known as Misha — has told a writer for The New York Review of Books that he'd had no contact with the bombing suspect for three years and that "I wasn't his teacher."

If Military Covers Abortion After Rape, Why Not The Peace Corps?

Last year, Congress and President Obama passed a law providing insurance coverage for abortion for military women in the case of rape or incest. Will the Peace Corps inspire a similar truce on the same issue?

Bangladeshi rescue workers take a break Friday on the rubble of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Friday, the death toll reached 300 as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing.

Bangladesh Rescuers Give Up On Finding Survivors Of Collapse

The army, which is leading the rescue, says there's little hope of finding anyone else alive. The news comes as the factories owners and managers are arrested by police.

In the Hall of Remembrance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, visitors can light candles in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.

At Holocaust Museum, Clinton And Wiesel Urge Young To Remember

On the museum's 20th anniversary, a Nobel laureate and a former president say coming generations must preserve the Holocaust's awful history. We all needed to be reminded, Clinton said, that "no matter how smart a people are, if you have a head without a heart, you are not human."

Tourists in Amsterdam wear orange Monday, one day before the investiture of the new Dutch king. Queen Beatrix, who ruled the Netherlands for 33 years, announced her abdication from the throne earlier this year.

Netherlands Prepares To Welcome First King Since 1890

Queen Beatrix plans to abdicate on April 30, a national holiday known as Queen's Day. When Crown Prince Willem-Alexander is sworn in, he'll become the first Dutch king in 122 years.

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