Grandmaster Flash is one of the most influential pioneers in the musical genres that have come to be known as rap and hip-hop. Flash was the first person to change the arrangements of songs by using duplicate copies of records and manually repeating the climatic part by rubbing the record back and forth. His group, [...]

Seventeen million people could be killed or injured in just a few weeks if India and Pakistan engage in an all-out nuclear war, according to the Pentagon.
Tensions between the two nuclear powers have reached an all-time high. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will visit both nations next week to try to improve relations, and the State [...]

Sudha Koul: A Kashmiri author reads from her memoir “The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir.”
Guests:
Sudha Koul, Kashmiri author

For eight and a half months, recovery workers tirelessly carted away the 1.7 million tons of wreckage that once made up the World Trade Center. In a simple, solemn ceremony earlier today, the final steel beam was loaded onto a flatbed truck and carried away.
Today’s ceremony brings a sense of closure to a city and [...]

According to the old adage, the only two sure things in this world are death and taxes. And even death is not immune from taxes. The Senate is soon to consider whether to make permanent the repeal the estate tax, which critics have renamed the “death tax.” The estate tax is the high tax burden [...]

FBI Director Robert Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft unveiled an ambitious plan to overhaul the bureau and refocus more energy on preventing terrorist attacks. The FBI has come under intense criticism over concerns that it ignored important clues in the months leading up to the September 11th attacks.
“Events of September 11 marked a turning [...]

Saddam Hussein has been held up as the archetypical evil dictator: a man whose tyrannical rule has driven his country into abject poverty; a man who “used chemical weapons on his own people.” The Bush administration has asserted that it wants to see a regime change in Iraq. But journalist Sandra Mackey argues that as [...]

An estimated 4 million Americans took to the skies during Memorial Day weekend, the start of the all-important summer travel season for the airline industry. The numbers were down 7 percent from last year’s Memorial Day weekend, an ominous portent for an industry still struggling to recover from September 11th.
This hour, we check in on [...]

There is little doubt that you have heard the music of Jean ‘Toots’ Thielemans. Perhaps his most famous composition is the theme to “Sesame Street,” which he wrote and performed on his famous harmonica.
The 80-year-old Thielemans is most famous for bringing the harmonica into jazz. Prior to his introducing it into modern jazz orchestras, the [...]

Memorial Day takes on a special meaning this year. The United States is fighting a war on terror and American troops are putting their lives on the line to win it.
In this hour, soldiers on the front lines talk about their daily routines, patriotism, and what Memorial Day means to them in these uncertain times.
From [...]

Thousands of video game fanatics flocked to Los Angeles this week for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the largest video game convention in North America. While other areas of the technology market slump, the gaming market is booming.
Guests:
Lt. Col. Casey Wardynski, Army Economist who conceived the Army’s new video-recruiting games, “Soldiers” and “Operations.”
Dean Takahashi, Senior writer [...]

Jewish voters have long been considered a stronghold of the Democratic Party. But with tensions in the Middle East at an all-time high and terror attacks becoming common occurrences in Israel, Jewish Americans have found some of the strongest support for the state of Israel coming from an unlikely place: the far Christian right of [...]

A mood of concern and fear has returned to the United States, after the FBI issued new warnings about possible attacks on New York City landmarks and several top governmental officials called a future terrorist attack “inevitable” over the weekend.
A national strategy to protect the homeland is expected sometime this summer. Meanwhile, says terrorism expert [...]

There is increasing frustration among some Bush administration officials about the growing influence of Karl Rove, the president’s longtime advisor and confidant.
Rove has always been one of the president’s point men on domestic policy, but his sphere of influence has spread to include foreign policy, as domestic issues have taken a back seat since September [...]

President Bush heads to Russia later this week for a summit aimed to increase cooperation between the United States and Russia, and, as one senior administration official says, put the Cold War finally to rest.
Last week, the U.S. and Russia announced a new plan to cut the number of strategic nuclear warheads they keep ready [...]

George W. Bush won the Presidency of the United States running on an ideology he called “compassionate conservatism.” But how does this new conservatism stack up to conservatism’s original ideals?
This hour, the grand old man of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr., discusses the state and future of the movement he helped was influential in [...]

The word from FBI Director Robert Mueller is that another terrorist attack is “inevitable.” Senator Bob Graham, Chair of the intelligence committee, is saying another attack is “almost certain.”
The warnings about the inevitability of a new terrorist attack come less than a week after some lawmakers questioned how much the Bush Administration knew about the [...]

A long time ago…well, 25 years ago next week…”Star Wars” first took to the silver screen. Two nights ago, “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones” debuted in sold-out theaters across the country. Although the fifth “Star Wars” movie is not expected to surpass the records “Spider-man” set two weeks ago, it is [...]

With their loss to the New Jersey Nets in the NBA’s Eastern Conference semifinals on Wednesday, the Hornets officially ended their affiliation with the city of Charlotte after 14 years. The Hornets are flying to New Orleans after a season that saw them finish last in the league in attendance.
The city of New Orleans has [...]

American companies have been moving their production overseas to save money for years. But a disturbing new trend is seeing many American corporations move their headquarters to other nations in order to avoid having to pay taxes to Uncle Sam.
The Stanley tool company will soon be moving its corporate headquarters to Bermuda. Unlike in the [...]