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The first dominant big man of professional basketball has died. Basketball Hall of Famer George Mikan, who led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships, was 80. Melissa Block talks to Tom Heinsohn, currently a commentator for Boston Celtics broadcasts and a former NBA All-Star player and coach.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 33 reports that Toyota's popular hybrid cars have stalled without warning. Toyota has also started its own inquiry into the Prius.

The Netherlands follows France in rejecting the European Union constitution, according to exit polls, a result that sent fresh shockwaves through the European political establishment.

Tim Winter is executive director of the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that speaks out against sex, violence, and profanity in the media.

The leader of the World Health Organization says he doesn't think that a 'zero-COVID' strategy is sustainable, given the behavior of the virus.

Volker Schlondorff is an Academy Award-winning German filmmaker who has focused on many aspects of German culture and history, but vowed never to make a movie about concentration camps -- until now. The Ninth Day tells the story of a priest who is torn between what is best for the church and his people.

Desperate to reach a more mobile audience, some newspapers are turning to podcasting. A growing number now offer Internet radio programs, sending stories from their pages to iPods and other players.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews a new series of commercials from General Electric. The company's "eco-imagination" campaign takes off with a spot featuring sexy supermodels working in a coal mine.

Karen Grigsby Bates tours the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts with journalist Karl Fleming, who was nearly beaten to death during a racial protest in the summer of 1966. Fleming's new book details his time reporting on the civil rights movement during the turbulent 1960s.

America's prisons are bursting at the seams with drug offenders. But the so-called "war on drugs" appears to have had little effect on the price and availability of illicit substances. Though drug use among whites is on par with blacks, African Americans account for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. drug convictions. For a closer look at what needs to be done to fight a fair and effective "war on drugs," Ed Gordon speaks with John Walters, director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy -- the nation's "drug czar.'