Bridget Kendall, BBC Diplomatic correspondent in Moscow, explains what it's like on the ground in Moscow after yesterday's suicide bombings; and this morning's headlines.

It's been over 24 hours since the terrorist attack in Moscow, where two female suicide bombers targeted subways, killing almost 40 people.

• TAKEOUT: Chicago Public Radio's Rob Wildeboer reports on the difficulty that a Chicago federal court is having as it determines how to prosecute Tahawwur Rana, who was accused of involvement in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Prosecutors have a considerable amount of information that they say will help tie Rana to the crime - but the evidence is classified.
  
• LISTENER TAKEOUT:  Yesterday, we asked whether the American education system could take a lesson or two from highly performing schools overseas. Listeners from around the country called in and posted on the web with your takes on that question. While all of the advice is good, some of our listener's innovations will surprise you.

At companies deemed too big to fail, there's a delicate balance to be found between paying enough to retain talented staff and soothing public anger about big taxpayer bailouts. "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg (he dislikes the term, but it's stuck) believes he’s getting the balance right.

Winston Churchill coined the phrase "The Special Relationship" 60 years ago to describe the relations between the U.S. and the U.K. But now, a senior British parliamentary committee is trying to move away from the phrase, stating that the U.K. needs to stand up to Washington and start saying "no."

As is often the case during an economic recession, employment litigation claims are going up. But new statistics from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission indicate that, more than ever, sexual harassment claims are being filed by men. 

Meghan O'Sullivan, professor of international affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School explains what is happening in Iraq following the parliamentary elections; and we bring you this morning's headlines.

An Iraqi election committee attempted to bar six members of parliament from taking their newly-won seats on Monday, saying they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party; and another 42 newly-elected members of parliament may find themselves on the chopping block as well. The commision's move dealt a blow to Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya party, which won a narrow majority of seats in Iraq's March 7th

• FINANCIAL TAKEOUT:  Global economists have been examining the frightening harbingers of Greece's economic fall, but the causes may be all too familiar to the U.S. American economies may be dangerously close to experiencing the same failings that we saw in Greece. Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, explains which states might suffer the worst.
• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Takeaway Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin analyzes the NIT Tournament which begins tomorrow.  Some call the NIT the "other" College Basketball Tournament and Abdul-Matin wonders if that stigma is still deserved.

The FBI arrested nine members of a group called Hutaree this past weekend. According to officials, the group planned to wage an all-out war to bring down the U.S. government.  Authorities said Hutaree's initial plan was to kill a law enforcement official and then plant IEDs to kill more officials who attended the funeral. If you're thinking this is a militant Islamist group, you're dead wrong: Hutaree is a Christian militia group based in Michigan. Hutaree's philosophy, stated on their website, reads, in part, that they are "preparing for the end time battles."

President Obama had dinner with Afghan president, Hamid Karzai when he was in the country last week. He reportedly called on the Afghan leader to crack down on corruption and the rule of law. But the relationship between the two leaders has been on shaky ground since allegations of fraud in Afghanistan's elections as well as corruption in the Afghan government.

We're 'Getting Schooled' this week on the future of education, pre-K through 12, in America. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joins us to discuss the reforms circulating in Washington right now.

Every year grasshoppers raid ranches and farms across the West, but this year threatens to see the worst infestation since 1985. Swarms of grasshoppers devour everything from grazing land to crops to the paint off of the sides of barns. The results are expensive for the land owners and the USDA, which has already spent its $5.6 million grasshopper budget on counting the insect population last fall.