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An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber has become the oldest person to reach the summit. But that record may not last. His 81-year-old Nepalese rival plans to make the ascent again next week.

World Cafe features daily interviews and live in-studio performances from seasoned music veterans and new sensations, in genres ranging from rock to blues to folk to alternative country and beyond. From NPR station WXPN, host David Dye chooses his favorite albums of 2006.

For lovers of jazz music, the year 2005 brought a wealth of reissues by critical artists from Jelly Roll Morton to John Coltrane. The music, the result of exhaustive archival and restoration work, adds new details to one of America's richest musical traditions.

Peter Navarro urged the president to impose tariffs on China. Is it a trade war he wants?

President Bush and the U.S. Senate turn their attention to immigration as the president helps to swear in new citizens while a Senate committee writes a bill to control the flow of undocumented workers. The full Senate is expected to debate the issue for the next two weeks.

Eddie Sotomayor was a trailblazer in the gay travel industry, organizing the first gay cruise to Cuba this year.

The All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk host shares his favorite recordings of the year.

The acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police testified that the intelligence about the threat on Jan. 6 was not relayed and that the former chief pressed for help from the National Guard.

Biden's novel step of preemptive pardons is meant to protect people from the threat of "unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions."

Once again, Wal-Mart tops the annual Global Fortune 500 list of top-earning corporations, released this week. Alex Chadwick talks with Bob Moon of Marketplace about the Arkansas-based retail giant, plus who else is on top this year.

The city of Chicago has one more thing to boast about: Its hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, has been named America's top orchestra in a new critics' poll published in the venerable British magazine Gramophone.

Originally a popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets makes iambic hay out of modern artists like Kesha and Eminem. Critic Tasha Robinson explains why Sonnets isn't your average impulse-buy humor book.