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Three U.S. soldiers are wounded in a roadside bombing just outside of Fallujah, west of the Baghdad. The attack comes as U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad condemn the events of Wednesday, when the bodies of four U.S. civilians killed by insurgents were dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson, NPR's Melissa Block and former Marine "Bing" West.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with composer and saxophonist Joshua Redman, artistic director of the San Francisco Jazz Collective. Redman has chosen to highlight the work of "free jazz" pioneer Ornette Coleman for the Collective's inaugural season. He's recruited highly respected musicians for the venture: Bobby Hutcherson, Nicholas Payton, Miguel Zenon, Josh Roseman, Renee Rosnes, Robert Hurst and Brian Blade are all tapped to participate.

To create memorable roles in such films as Say Anything and I Shot Andy Warhol, actress Lili Taylor turns to the tools of psychology, she tells Intersections, our series on artists' inspirations. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

Researchers at the Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina say sharing music files over the Internet has not adversely affected CD sales. The study compares downloads of music files with store sales of those same songs. Officials in the recording industry have long blamed file sharing for the decline in CD sales in recent years. NPR's Felix Contreras reports.

In the first in a three-part series on California's Inland Empire, NPR's Carrie Kahn reports that while the economic recovery sputters around the country, this bastion of suburbia east of Los Angeles is booming. The housing market and robust economy continue to draw people by the millions, ultimately pushing the affordable housing even further east and north, over the mountains and into the desert.

In 1994, Rwanda was torn by murderous tribal violence. The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda, from American RadioWorks, focuses on those who sought to avert the mass slaughter.

In a ceremony in Brussels, NATO formally welcomes seven new members from Eastern Europe. The alliance, now comprising 26 countries, is debating whether to commit itself to any role in Iraq. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and NPR's Michele Kelemen.

Thousands of well-wishers turn out at Fort Riley -- a sprawling Army base in the Kansas heartland -- to welcome home soldiers returning from Iraq. Many had spent more than a year on duty. Their return was tinged with sadness: Five soldiers based at Fort Riley were killed earlier in the week in Fallujah. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

This past week, bassist and cellist Percy Heath was honored with a "Beacons in Jazz" award from the New School University in New York. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with the longtime member of the Modern Jazz Quartet who still performs with the Heath Brothers, and has only now at the age of 80 released his first solo CD: A Love Song is on Daddy Jazz Records.

The new movie Hellboy is based on a comic book about a monster-fighting hero with a twist: he's also a demon, working for the U.S. government. Creator Mike Mignola says he drew inspiration from another famous creature of the dark -- Bram Stoker's Dracula. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.