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The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments about New Hampshire's parental notification law. Supporters maintain parents have a right to know when girls seek abortions. Opponents fear the law chips away at Roe v. Wade. Guests provide analysis of the day's arguments, along with audiotape excerpts.

A roadside bombing outside Fallujah, about 25 miles west of Baghdad, kills 10 U.S. Marines and wounds 11 others. It is the highest one-day death toll for U.S. forces in Iraq since August.

For those who struggle with their weight and body image, the focus on food around the holidays may create anxiety. Guest host Farai Chideya talks with Robyn McGee about her sister, who died from complications following gastric bypass surgery.

Top-ranked American skeleton racer Zach Lund has been cleared by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to compete in the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. He had tested positive for a banned substance that is often used to mask steroid use, but he said he used it to treat balding.

Canadians are voting in a national election and are expected to have a new prime minister by Tuesday morning. Polls show that Stephen Harper, head of the Conservative Party, is likely to replace Prime Minister Paul Martin. But it's not clear the Conservatives can win a majority in Parliament.

On the CD Goulash!, Matt Haimovitz and his stringed instrument explore the music of Hungary, Romania and Transylvania. And he throws in a version of the rock band's "Kashmir" for good measure.

The word glitch may appear at first glance to be a piece of modern slang, like Snafu. But the fact is that it has been around for at least a century in American slang, and much longer before that in Europe.

A piece of Detroit music history is torn down to make way for Super Bowl parking. The Motown Center, which once housed the famous record label, had been abandoned for more than 30 years.

A Miami couple has been charged with spying for Fidel Castro. Federal prosecutors allege Carlos Alvarez, 61, and his 55-year-old wife, Elsa Alvarez, led a double life as undercover agents for Cuba while working as professors at Florida International University.

Listener Daniel Ferri's newborn son suffered a stroke as Hurricane Katrina neared the Gulf Coast. Ferri says the two disasters, one personal, one natural, shaped his belief in the kindness of strangers.

Six men forced from their homes by violence in Sierra Leone have transformed their experience into a musical calling. The Refugee All Stars are now the subject of a feature-length documentary that follows their performances.

Scott Peterson, Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, describes what it's like to be on patrol with U.S. Marines in the Fallujah area. Last month, he was embedded with the Marine company that controls most of northeast Fallujah.

This past weekend, the University of Southern California and the University of Texas each finished undefeated seasons with dominating performances to set up their face-off for the national title in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 4.

Actor, producer, writer, director George Clooney directed and co-wrote the new film Good Night, and Good Luck, about the showdown between legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy that took place in 1954.

The current method of vaccine production, which requires the incubation of flu virus in chicken eggs, may not be up to the task of protecting people from a new strain of deadly flu.

Walgreens suspends four Illinois pharmacists who wouldn't sign a pledge to fill all prescriptions. Some refused to give customers the "morning after" birth-control pill, citing religious beliefs. Maria Hickey of member station KWMU reports.

Doctors who performed the world's first partial face transplant provide an update on the procedure and the patient's condition. The recipient was a 38-year-old French woman who had been mauled by a dog.

Robert Siegel talks with Purdue University Professor Edward Delp, one of a team who devised a way to watermark pages from copiers and printers. This technology allows for the tracing of documents to specific printers or to a certain model of printer.

Last month, Robert Siegel visited New Orleans East to see how residents of one block were coping in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He talks to some displaced residents of Honeysuckle Lane.

The Pentagon is exploring proposals to give the military a prominent role during disasters within the United States. That might require changing the posse comitatus law, which generally makes it illegal for the military to perform law enforcement duties within the United States. In the second of two commentaries on the law, commentator Austin Bay, a colonel in the Army Reserve, says we should leave posse comitatus alone.

Robert Siegel continues his conversations with residents of one small street in New Orleans East. He chats with Keia Wyre, who lives at 37 Honeysuckle Lane. She's staying with her mother in Hampton, Va., while she tries to find out what insurance and FEMA will pay her for her water-damaged home.

A new dress code requires NBA players to wear "business-casual attire" when they are on league or team business and not in uniform.

This year, a new piece by world-famous composer Joan Tower will debut in unusually small venues nationwide. Community orchestras banded with other small groups across the nation to commission the piece themselves. Vivian Goodman of member station WKSU reports.

Jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn's graceful career began in the 1960s, and lasted until her death this week at 71. Her voice and style put her in the ranks of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Hurricane Wilma hit southwest Florida at dawn as a Category 3 storm, packing winds of 125 mph that damaged homes, downed power lines and brought flooding as far south as Key West. The storm has since moved over the Atlantic Ocean.