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Baseball superstar Barry Bonds tells a grand jury that he used substances prosecutors say were undetectable steroids, according to a newspaper report. Bonds reportedly testified he was unaware the substances were performance-enhancing drugs. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Militants attack the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, killing four security officers. Three of the attackers were also killed. A U.S. embassy spokesman says all Americans at the consulate are safe. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Khaled al-Maeena, editor in chief of Arab News in Jiddah.

Amid new and often confusing revelations about painkillers currently on the market, the Food and Drug Administration issues an interim advisory while it compares data on pain relievers. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly, about some "out of the box" presidential candidates the Democratic Party should consider for 2008.

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Hungarian musicologist Peter Laki joins NPR's Fred Child to explore the folk and classical elements in Bartok's music.

In a series of commentaries for All Things Considered over the past 18 months, Holly Rossi described what life was like for the wife of an Army reservist deployed in Kuwait.

Hip-hop scholar and Northeastern University professor Murray Forman joins culture critic Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University to talk with NPR's Tony Cox about their new book That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Lyle Denniston, a longtime observer of the U.S. Supreme Court, about its recent decision not to review a case challenging the legality of gay marriage in Massachusetts. Denniston says there's less to the Supreme Court's decision than some media commentators have claimed.

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President George Bush addresses a nation that is both hopeful about the future and worried about Iraq and the economy. We host an Inauguration Day conversation about the president's speech and the day's events, and what to expect over the next four years.