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North Carolina is home to some 4,000 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees. For most of the recent arrivals, this Christmas will be their first chance to celebrate openly. Hear reporter Jessica Jones of member station WUNC.

Baseball superstar Barry Bonds tells a grand jury that he used substances prosecutors say were undetectable steroids, according to a newspaper report. Bonds reportedly testified he was unaware the substances were performance-enhancing drugs. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Militants attack the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, killing four security officers. Three of the attackers were also killed. A U.S. embassy spokesman says all Americans at the consulate are safe. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Khaled al-Maeena, editor in chief of Arab News in Jiddah.

President Bush formally announces the selection of former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to succeed Tom Ridge as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik would be the second person to head the two-year-old agency. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Amid new and often confusing revelations about painkillers currently on the market, the Food and Drug Administration issues an interim advisory while it compares data on pain relievers. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Dr. Ivan Walks details the new look and benefits of the U.S. government's revised food pyramid. Walks is the former chief health officer of the District of Columbia and is now the CEO and president of Ivan Walks and Associates

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the futuristic design of a long-lost German passenger train that traveled between Hamburg and Berlin, driven by a pusher propeller. The train didn't catch on, but the German railway system matched its record speed only last month with its latest generation of passenger trains.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly, about some "out of the box" presidential candidates the Democratic Party should consider for 2008.

Miranda Kennedy reports on the changing nature of arranged marriages in India. Kennedy attended an arranged marriage ceremony on a day when 10,000 couples were married in New Delhi, at the height of the "marriage season." Arranged marriage is still the norm, but more and more middle-class families are bending the rules to allow the bride and groom a little more control over their choice of partner.

In a series of commentaries for All Things Considered over the past 18 months, Holly Rossi described what life was like for the wife of an Army reservist deployed in Kuwait.

In over 30 years of traveling, writer Eric Hansen has met some odd characters. He details some of his most memorable explorations in a new book of essays called The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer.

The Senate Judiciary committee votes 10-8 along party lines to send Alberto Gonzales's nomination as attorney general to the full Senate. The Senate is expected to confirm the Gonzales.

CBS and NBC refuse to air a TV commercial for the United Church of Christ, saying the ad is too controversial. The commercial shows two bouncers standing in front of a church refusing to let some people in, including a gay couple. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.

Many baseball fans probably know Nolan Ryan holds the records for most strikeouts and Pete Rose has the most hits in the history of Major League Baseball -- but what about James "Cool Papa" Bell or Joe "Smokey" Williams from the Negro League of Baseball? NPR's Tony Cox talks with Larry Luster and Dick Clark, two of the people working to compile the statistics of Negro League Baseball players.

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Hungarian musicologist Peter Laki joins NPR's Fred Child to explore the folk and classical elements in Bartok's music.

A suicide driver detonates a car bomb outside Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party headquarters in Baghdad. At least 10 people were wounded. The al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq claimed reponsibility for the attack just a day after its leader declared an all out war on the upcoming election. This is the second attack on Allawi's party in a week.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to reopen the market to Canadian cattle in March. But as NPR's Greg Allen reports, in Canada's cattle country, mad cow disease has sown distrust in an industry where borders once didn't matter.

Hip-hop scholar and Northeastern University professor Murray Forman joins culture critic Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University to talk with NPR's Tony Cox about their new book That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader.

Sidney Jones is the director of the International Crisis Group's South East Asia Project. She has examined separatist conflicts, ethnic conflict, and terrorism in the region, with much of her attention focused on work in Indonesia. We discuss how the Indian Ocean tsunami has affected the already politically unstable Indonesia.

Two police officers involved in a videotaped beating of a black teenager in Inglewood, Calif., have been awarded $2.4 million by a jury that found they were unfairly disciplined. We speak with Gregory Smith, the attorney for officer Jeremy Morse, who was given the larger jury award of $1.6 million. We also hear from Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn.

President George Bush addresses a nation that is both hopeful about the future and worried about Iraq and the economy. We host an Inauguration Day conversation about the president's speech and the day's events, and what to expect over the next four years.

Comic and journalist Stephen Colbert is the fake senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We talk with Colbert about his reports, from "Rathergate" to "This Week in God."

NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Talk of the Nation Science Friday, joins NPR's Noah Adams to discuss how brain scans could provide a more accurate lie detector test. Researchers announced this week that brain scans of people telling the truth look very different from those who are lying. The study was conducted by researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn.

Ukraine's Supreme Court overturns the result of the country's presidential election. The court ordered a new runoff election later this month. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

Rev. Jim Wallis is the founder of the organization Sojourners, a Christian group advocating a style of peace and justice. Wallis is editor in chief of Sojourners magazine. His new book is God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.