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Host Neal Conan gets the latest on the long- and short-term impacts of the extraordinary wind and water associated with Hurricane Katrina as it moves inland from the New Orleans area.

At the dawn of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash recorded hits like "The Message" and "White Lines (Don't Do it)" with the Furious Five.

Iraq's president calls on the country to accept a new constitution despite protests by the Sunni minority. The draft document was completed on Sunday with the support of Iraq's Shiite-dominated parliament

When President Bush announced in 2001 that his administration was going to devote $1.5 billion to promote marriage, his critics said the initiative was one more way the president was trying to advance the cause of his conservative supporters. In the first of a series of reports on teaching marriage skills, Alix Spiegel profiles an Oklahoma program for women on welfare.

Clarence O. Smith, the founder of Essence magazine, talks about his career, his inspiration -- the late publisher John H. Johnson -- and his new record label.

Early reports from witnesses to the explosions in London described large blasts, scenes of confusion and many injuries. Police said they did not know yet how many people had died in the attacks.

A novel about vampires prowling around dark forests and damp crypts in Central Europe may not seem like ideal summertime reading, but The Historian, a debut novel about Dracula by Elizabeth Kostova, is shaping up to be one of this season's big beach books. Book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review.

The Tulsa Zoo has long had an evolutionary science exhibit. Now its board is considering adding a display providing the biblical account of how the Earth began. The clash between science and religion is now dividing many in Tulsa.

We talk with one of the few Western reporters who was in Zimbabwe to witness president Robert Mugabe's controversial strategy of shantytown clearance.

An increasing number of officials and analysts are saying that Medicaid cannot be fixed. Medicaid is the nation's largest health insurance provider for the poor and its budget is straining local and federal governments.