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President Bush, traveling in Idaho, will deliver a speech to the National Guard there and visit with families of U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Bush delivered a pointed response to protestors who have staged demonstrations around the country calling for the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq.

The White House and U.S. politicians join others around the world in calling for the release of a retired archbishop, singer and others in the Chinese territory.

Madeleine Brand talks to KPBS senior editor Russell Lewis about the resignation of San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy and the uncertainties around the selection of a successor. Murphy's resignation comes amid a probe of the city's debt-ridden pension fund. He narrowly won re-election to the office in November, and was recently named by Time magazine as one of the three worst mayors of a major U.S. city.

The great fear of many experts is that Hurricane Katrina may drive the waters of Lake Pontchartrain over levees and into the city, overwhelming an elaborate pumping system. The potential exists for the worst flood damage in U.S. history.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu's son, Tristan, grew up in New Orleans. Codrescu says that bringing up children in the Crescent City presented special challenges.

Watch the producer extraordinaire sit down for a rare, in-depth interview with Jason King, host of NPR Music's R&B channel "I"ll Take You There."

The composer, who was born in 1908 and won two Pulitzer Prizes for music that could be challenging and adventurously modern, died in New York.

Here's a look at what Sunday's Oscars telecast will tell us about the state of the film industry mid-pandemic and the films we'll be seeing in the future.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Hawon Jung, a Korean journalist, about fears that the president elect will reverse years of progress on women's rights in South Korea.

Thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. are still desperately seeking an exit. Advocates worry that they'll be forgotten as the world focuses on the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards happened on Sunday night, and a couple of big wins might have implications for the rest of the awards year.

Five days into ballot counting, with Joe Biden leading but a winner yet called, we'll have the latest from the Biden and Trump campaigns.