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The FCC wants to know if radio programmers at Clear Channel Communications Inc., CBS Radio Inc., Entercom Communications Corp. and Citadel Broadcasting Corp. received cash or gifts in exchange for playing songs without disclosing such a deal.

From blockbusters like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to smaller films like Deliver Us From Evil, documentaries are drawing large audiences. But some worry that the Academy's new rules could hamper that trend.

Researchers have put a theoretical height limit on the world's tallest trees. According to an article in the science journal Nature, it's difficult for California redwoods to drag water up much higher than 426 feet. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

Fifty years ago, the first consumer color TV sets started rolling off the assembly line. It took more than a decade for color television to become a household fixture. NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the early days of color TV, and the way today's new technology is similarly transforming home entertainment.

A weekend conference in Libya intended to bring peace to Sudan's troubled Darfur region was hobbled in part by the absence of key black rebel groups who are considered essential to any lasting agreement. What their absence portends has become a main topic of the discussions.

The career of a once-revered Olympic athlete is in tatters. Track and field superstar Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal agents about her use of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Following her appearance in a federal court, she made the tearful announcement that she is retiring from her sport.

Child welfare officials in Texas say they'll take immediate steps to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling that children removed from a polygamist compound be reunited with their parents. The court said welfare officials overstepped their authority.

Henry Farrell, co-author of the Foreign Policy magazine article "Web of Influence," discusses a growing phenomenon: runaway rumors and false information flooding the Internet.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposes major changes to the world body. The reforms would expand the Security Council and keep countries that violate human rights off the Human Rights Commission.

Donald Hall was named the United States' 14th poet laureate Wednesday, but he has competition. Later this month, James Monroe High School in the Bronx will honor its first-ever poet laureate... Tiffany Otero.

This weekend, the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H., will award C. Yardley Chittick, the nation's oldest patent attorney, an honorary degree. Chittick, 104, talks about his career and his brushes with Thomas Edison and Humphrey Bogart.

Even after years of protection as an endangered species, the Northern Spotted Owl is still at risk of extinction. Logging companies and some government biologists say the Barred Owl is pushing the meeker spotted owls out of their nesting areas.

Jim Williams never met a piece of electronics he didn't like. The Silicon Valley electrical engineer collects and cherishes what few of us notice: the inner workings of modern machines. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

The Senate has passed the most sweeping revision of the nation's immigration laws in two decades. The vote was 62 to 36; most of the ayes came from Democratic senators, who were joined by a minority of the ruling Republicans.

In many communities, there's a convenience store where the owner was murdered, or a corner where a woman was attacked. In those places, the aura of past violence hangs like a shroud. Whether the violence is rare or regular, when it happens, it changes the neighborhood.

Civil rights protesters argue Jena, La., school and law enforcement officials are dealing out harsh justice to the African-American teens for a schoolyard fight while overlooking their white counterparts who hung nooses to intimidate the black teens.

In one of the worst incidents since the start of the conflict in Iraq, at least 175 people were killed Tuesday when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town in northern Iraq. Kahtaniya, near Mosul, is home to an ancient minority sect. At least 200 others were injured.

A House committee has voted to call on President Bush to declare that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago was genocide. Turkey and the Bush administration worked unsuccessfully to defeat the resolution, but the battle is not over.

The former federal judge and attorney general is widely credited with restoring the Justice Department's reputation for excellence following the Watergate scandal. Not long after Bell learned that he was dying, he agreed to an interview with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

The hospices that discharge the most patients before their death also make the most money, a recent study shows.

Medications for heartburn called proton pump inhibitors are linked to a higher risk for chronic kidney disease, according to a study. It's the latest in a growing list of worries with these drugs.

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now

The Justice Department is searching for the hackers who launched the Internet attack against companies that stopped doing business with WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. But former prosecutors and cyber experts say that actually bringing criminal indictments in the massive denial-of-service attacks could be a bridge too far.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain called for a temporary lifting of federal fuel taxes in order to cut gas prices during the busy summer driving season. "The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus" for families and businesses alike, McCain says.

In a sign of U.S. intent to put Asian allies at the core of its foreign policy, Japan's prime minister will be the first foreign head of state to meet face-to-face with President Biden.