Among the major news of this past week:

1) Severely brain-damaged Terry Schiavo becomes the center of a political firestorm as Congress and the President intervene to try to get her feeding tube reattached. But the courts continue to side with Schiavo’s husband.

2) A 16 year-old goes on a shooting spree at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, killing 10, including himself and 7 others at Red Lake High School.

3) Condoleezza Rice talks about upheaval in the Central Asian nation, Kyrgyzstan, where protestors forced the President to flee the country.

4) Secretary-General Kofi Annan pushes for reforms at the U.N., including an expansion of the Security Council.

5) Pope John Paul II misses the majority of Holy Week events at the Vatican due to illness.

6) U.S., Canada, and Mexico agree to broaden cooperation and security issues during a summit in Texas.

7) A huge explosion at a British Petroleum plant in Texas kills 15 and injures more than 100.

Hear host Tom Ashbrook and news analyst Jack Beatty talk about these and other major news of this past week.

Guests:

Jack Beatty, “On Point” news analyst, and Tom Ashbrook, host of “On Point.”