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Third-term Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) joins a growing list of candidates for House minority leader, along with congressional veterans Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX). Jacqueline Fellows of member station WPLN reports.

Would it bother you to find the neighbors' cattle grazing on your front lawn? Just how long can you live without power when it's 20 degrees outside? Some communities in western states have drafted ground rules for newcomers -- a new "Code of the West." Read some helpful hints for life on a new frontier.

Tax cuts remain high on the Republican agenda for the new Congress. The Bush administration hopes to make permanent a $1.3-trillion tax cut passed by Congress last year. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Commentator Kevin Phillips considers the relationship between midterm elections and the 2004 presidential election.

Communist North Korea has reached out to the capitalist world in recent months by lifting price controls and allowing salaries to soar. The government now plans a free-trade zone along the Chinese border. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution demanding that Iraq disarm and ordering new weapons inspections. President Bush welcomes the development. Iraq is silent. NPR News reports.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Miami on how what appeared to be a close contest between incumbent governor Jeb Bush and the Democratic challenger Bill McBride, turned into a 13-point romp for Bush.

Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin imagine that Hollywood is rushing to catch up to current events as the U.N. resolution on Iraq has passed today. They fashion of movie "trailer" of a film, Iraqi Two, in which Sylvester Stallone plays George W, Bush and Burgess Meredith is his father, as the younger president sets out to fight Saddam Hussein in a cinematic showdown. (2:45)

John Ydstie goes to a club called the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va., to hear the opening act, Mary Gauthier. Gauthier was an adopted child, a troubled teen, then a philosophy student, and later a restaurant owner. Now she writes and sings songs. Mary Gauthier talks about songwriting and how it relates to philosophy. (12:30) Mary Gauthier's new CD is called Filth and Fire It's on the Signature Sounds label.

It's dark, rain is falling hard, and the roads are filled with evening traffic. You might think that using a crosswalk would be the safest way to get across the street. But a new study focusing on elderly pedestrians has come up with some unnerving findings. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

Just days after being appointed by Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura to temporarily fill the seat of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, Dean Barkley arrives in Washington to assume his duties. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sen. Barkley.

Commentator and former CBS-TV anchor Walter Cronkite tells of his firsthand experience on this date 60 years ago as American forces landed in North Africa to fight Germany during the Second World War. He was a wire service reporter on a Navy vessel at the time. We hear CBS broadcasts by John Daly from the time.

Accused sniper John Lee Malvo, 17, is ordered held without bail after a hearing Friday in Fairfax County, Va. A preliminary hearing was held earlier in the day in Prince William County, Va., for 41-year-old John Allen Muhammad, the other suspect in a string of killings in the Washington, D.C. area and the Deep South. NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks with NPR's John Ydtsie.

Police departments around the country could have discovered possible connections between the Washington-area sniper shootings and other killings much sooner if they had been fully utilizing a national crime database. Robert Siegel talks about this with John Timoney, Chief Executive Officer of Beau, Dietl & Associates. Timoney was formerly Police Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.

The new Todd Haynes film Far from Heaven stars Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, and Dennis Haysbert. It recreates the look and feel of a 1950s Hollywood melodrama. But NPR Film Critic Bob Mondello says that although the director was paying direct homage to films such as Imitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows he's added enough to the mix to make it feel startlingly original.

Two papers in the journal Nature shed new light on the relationship between wildfires and the environment. Major fires in Indonesia in the late 1990s spewed large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

The City Council in Charlotte, N.C., is getting ready to vote on a deal that could bring pro basketball back to town. The Hornets left for New Orleans this summer after a deal for a new stadium fell through. Commentator Andrea Cooper says that her city is trying to improve its image through sports -- just like a lot of other smaller cities. She's been in favor of growth through pro sports for many years, but now she's beginning to wonder.

John Ydstie talks with Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about slow sales for sports tickets and how basketball, hockey and baseball teams are trying to respond. The New York Knicks recently ended a 20-year streak of playing before sellout crowds at Madison Square Garden. Tickets for National Hockey League games barely edged up this season and several teams are having difficulty filling their arenas.

Financial firms have launched new ads, created new divisions and hired marketing groups to attract wealthier women to invest on Wall Street. Some analysts find the strategy patronizing, and worry that it ignores women with smaller incomes. NPR's Madeleine Brand reports.

Delegates to a United Nations wildlife conference have agreed to ease a 13-year-old global ban on ivory trading. The decision is a victory for southern African nations, but conservationists see it as a defeat for elephants. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this week in Washington, D.C. Topping the agenda is the issue of Vatican-inspired revisions to the charter against sexual abuse that the bishops signed in Dallas last June. NPR's Duncan Moon reports.

Beyond the glamour of Hollywood and the romance of the Golden Gate Bridge, there is another California -- and it's home to the greatest garden in the world. The 400-mile-long Central Valley supplies fully one-quarter of the food America eats. Now the region faces huge changes. NPR's John McChesney and Richard Gonzales begin a four-part series focusing on the future of California's Central Valley.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's David Welna about what to expect -- and what not to expect -- in the lame-duck session of Congress that begins today.

Instead of attending the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Sept. 30, the prime minister and his family were on a seaside holiday in Vancouver.

When Congress went home in October, the Senate was still stuck on its version of a bill to create a new Department of Homeland Security. But President Bush campaigned hard on the issue, which may have helped elect a new Republican majority in the Senate. That gave new momentum to negotiators who have been trying to fashion a compromise version of labor-management rules that both parties could accept. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.