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Senate debate on the Iraq war began in earnest Tuesday as Democrats called for troop withdrawals. Democratic leaders introduced an amendment ordering withdrawals by April 30, 2008. Sen. John McCain, just back from Iraq, gave a floor speech saying precipitous withdrawal would be a disaster.

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

Musician Alex Chilton died yesterday. He was the lead singer of the Memphis band Big Star. To remember the underground legend, Ed Ward reviews Keep an Eye on the Sky, a four-disc collection of recordings, demos and outtakes.

The last time the U.S. dollar sank to 100 yen was 1995. Melissa Block examines what else was going on at that time.

One listener objected to what he heard in the report about the 1947 partition of India.

Listeners sent in their thoughts in response to a review of the highs and lows of the Bush presidency.

One of Nashville's biggest stars, Bentley plays the border town of Bristol, Tenn./Va. — the "Birthplace of Country Music" — in a special episode commemorating the 80th anniversary of the first commercial country music recordings.

Ginsburg became the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.

Unlike many Americans, Chinese consumers are not fans of "new car smell." Ford has hired 18 smell testers for their Chinese research lab to sniff car parts and send back any with too strong an odor.