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The Syrian opposition movement suffers from deep divisions and has been weighted toward those in exile rather than those battling inside Syria. At talks in Qatar this week, the U.S. is pushing for the creation of a new opposition group.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

These last four days are not your typical end-of-campaign sprint. Gov. Mitt Romney is now working at a level of intensity he never has before in this race, hoping that this final push can put him over the top.

Millions of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy. But people in the region are looking out for one another. Good Samaritans have provided free meals, showers and clothes for those still without power and water. Host Scott Simon talks with David Weber, president of the New York City Food Truck Association, which helped provide 11,000 meals to needy New Yorkers on Friday.

Staten Island is the smallest and least populated of New York's five boroughs. But when Superstorm Sandy struck this week, it suffered more casualties than any other part of the city. Thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed and 50,000 homes still lack power.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo began looking out for his mother early in life. In his new memoir, Elsewhere, Russo writes not only of his mother, but of the vanished world that shaped her. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls the book "gorgeously nuanced."

It's longer than a football field, has 192 wheels and is hauling "slightly radioactive" steel from California to Utah. You can't exactly hide it, but the exact route isn't being disclosed.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness adorns everything from the penny to a South Dakota mountain. Naturally, such a heroic and tragic American figure has been a subject for the silver screen since its early days. NPR's Bob Mondello surveys some of the most memorable big-screen Lincolns.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the two South Korean carmakers, owned by the same parent company, overstated the gas mileage on 900,000 vehicles over the past three years. The automakers say they will reimburse customers by covering the additional fuel costs.

The heavy fighting included car bombs, airstrikes and shelling in several cities.