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NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin answers your questions. This week: precedents for Rice's move from the NSA to the State Department.

NPR's Carrie Kahn reports on the life and death of Lance Cpl. George J. Payton, a young man from the Southern California town of Culver City who died in combat in Fallujah. Payton loved to laugh, party and listen to the music of the late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.

In the year of the famed sleuth's 150th birthday, Norton has published "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes." With more than 700 illustrations and 1,000 annotations, the two-volume set is the definitive edition of the Holmes canon. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to editor Leslie Klinger.

When European musical notation began in the 8th and 9th centuries, the Western world was already filled with music. Sacred chants and secular songs were rich with melody, rhythm and harmony. Richard Taruskin begins our chronicle with the early music of the church.

A bombing in the northern city of Beiji that targeted a U.S. convoy kills several Iraqis, as fighting continues in Fallujah. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Alissa Rubin of the Los Angeles Times.

In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court upholds the $1,000 damage limit under the federal Truth in Lending Act. The case involved a man who was misled while arranging a car loan. The consumer maintained that changes in the law approved by Congress meant that he was entitled to more than the law's original damages cap. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

NPR's Noah Adams talks with Reuters correspondent Oliver Bullogh about popular reaction in Ukraine's eastern provinces to the former Soviet Union satellite nation's current political crisis. Bullogh returned Tuesday from the eastern city of Danetsk, where there is widespread support for pro-Russia candidate Viktor Yanukovych, to the capital of Kiev, where tens of thousands of protesters have held a week-long vigil in support of pro-European candidate Viktor Yushchenko.

President Bush selects Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to succeed Ann Veneman as secretary of agriculture. Johanns is a popular Republican with lifelong ties to agriculture. Also, John Danforth, U.S. ambassador for the United Nations, resigns. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

HBO's biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers debuts on the pay-cable network Sunday. Geoffrey Rush plays the great British comic. To celebrate, NPR's Scott Simon and New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell help movie fans brush up on some of Sellers' finest screen moments.

A confidential report commissioned by NASA concludes the agency's plan to use a robot to save the Hubble telescope is highly risky. The report suggests NASA should send up new instruments on a second, bare-bones telescope.