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Robert Siegel talks with Scott Horsley about President Obama's campaigning in Ohio on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel got a hostile reception in a visit to Greece on Tuesday, her first since the debt crisis developed three years ago. Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest the deep austerity measures the German-led eurozone has imposed in exchange for multi-billion dollar bailouts.

Thousands of Coptic Christians marched through central Cairo on Tuesday to demand justice for the more than two dozen Copts who were killed a year ago when army units moved in to stop their protest.

Robert Siegel previews the Supreme Court's arguments over affirmative action at the University of Texas with legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

The BBC is apologizing to women who claim they were sexually abused decades ago by one of the broadcaster's top entertainers. Jimmy Savile had been knighted for his charity work in 1990. He died last year. The number of women alleging abuse could be more than two dozen and the scandal has dominated Britain's media.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced on Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys.

In Michigan, unions have bet big on ballot proposals to stem a tide of Republican legislation curtailing organized labor's ability to bargain contracts, collect dues, and raise money for political races. Their top goal is to make sure the state legislature cannot pass a so-called right-to-work law that outlaws compulsory union membership. They also want to reverse a law that allows the state to temporarily take over financially struggling local governments and scrap public employee contracts.

Wal-Mart and American Express have teamed up to offer a new prepaid card. The two companies say it will act like a checking account, but without the many fees that frustrate customers. Audie Cornish talks with Stephanie Clifford, retail reporter for The New York Times.

When Mitt Romney said he would cut PBS funding in the first presidential debate — and singled out Big Bird, whom he said he liked a lot — he perhaps inadvertently introduced the befeathered yellow children's icon smack into the center of political debate. President Obama approved a cable-only commercial dinging Romney for going after Sesame Street rather than Wall Street, but Romney appears to think he has a winning hand — castigating the president for focusing on a profitable educational puppet empire rather than big issues, like terrorism in the Arab world.

The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a new study that looks at the rise of people in the U.S. who do not identify with any religion. Audie Cornish speaks with Gregory Smith, Pew Forum senior researcher and co-author of the study, for more on that growing segment of the population.