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Votes are due for parliament in December and president next March. Voters feel confident they already know who will win, though, and are not energized by the campaign. The challenge for Kremlin-approved and opposition parties is to get people to vote when they don't feel that anything will change.

In Seattle, Victoria Liss was angry when a guy left no tip and wrote that she could stand to lose some weight. But her Facebook rant exposed the wrong guy. It's another lesson about when to pause before hitting send.

His latest brush with rejection came after the defeat of his government's spending plan. Meanwhile, the country seems headed into recession and his personal scandals continue to drag down its reputation.

It was the best gain since February and was driven by higher car sales.

Cleanup of park in Manhattan is postponed, meaning the protesters can stay put. InItaly, the premier survives a confidence vote.

Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, the alleged target of the Iranian plot, told U.S. officials in 2008 the king wanted the U.S. to attack Iran and "cut off the head of the snake." From Tehran that could have been interpreted as targeting Iran's leader for assassination.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out this week puts a new name at the top of the race for the Republican presidential nomination: Herman Cain. The poll shows the former head of Godfather's Pizza is at 27 percent, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney just 4 points behind. Cain spoke with Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon about his surge to front-runner status.

So far the presidential election is seemingly one endless night of bingeing and purging. One candidate sells like hotcakes for a while, then goes cold as a freezer-burned waffle. What's the deal with the electoral mood swings?

Steve Bartman deflected a foul ball during a playoff game in 2003. The Chicago Cubs went on to lose that game, and Bartman's fellow fans vilified him. A new documentary asks whether Bartman can forgive those fans for making him a scapegoat.

Occupy Wall Street protests are planned in cities around the country Saturday. On Friday in New York, a planned clean-up of Zuccotti Park near Wall Street was postponed. NPR's Margot Adler reports on daily life in the Lower Manhattan park where the protest movement began. At first glance, the lives of the protesters may seem loose and anarchistic, but there's actually lot of invisible technology, infrastructure, innovation and even some sophisticated finance going on.