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World Cafe celebrates some legendary guitar innovators by sharing past interviews with Les Paul, Peter Frampton and Jeff Beck.

In a speech Tuesday, the attorney general said laws barring convicted felons from voting are counterproductive and perpetuate "the stigma and isolation imposed on formerly incarcerated individuals."

Coolio died on Sept. 28, 2022, at a friend's home in Los Angeles. The 59-year-old rapper's cause of death was unknown at the time.

As a Black Puerto Rican child, Ayodele Casel was fairly certain tap dancers had to look more like Ginger Rogers than her own family and friends. But that didn't stop her.

NASA's Sonification Project is a collaborative effort to turn data collected from the outer reaches of the universe into sounds. Their album, Universal Harmonies, is out March 10.

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.