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President Bush is threatening a veto if the Senate passes a Democratic plan that calls for the beginning of a drawdown of troops in Iraq within four months.

Hundreds of nominees for military positions have been stalled as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., protests Pentagon abortion policy, and that total could swell to 650, the Pentagon says.

The House bill has bipartisan support, including from a longtime Republican lawmaker well known as a staunch pro-life conservative.

This weekend, the NPR Books Time Machine is rewinding Scott Lynch's swashbuckling Gentleman Bastard series, a combination fantasy of manners, heist caper and heartfelt buddy comedy. With pirates.

In this new collaborative YA novel, three authors — Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti — each take charge of two characters, teenagers with offbeat and troublesome superpowers.

Petition language for the amendment to put redistricting in the hands of a citizens commission is rejected a second time, on the same day as a meeting of the panel that currently draws maps for Ohio lawmakers' districts is postponed.

Ben Yagoda uses the battle between music licensing organizations ASCAP and BMI to sketch out a broader lament about the long fade-out of the American Songbook and the segue to modern pop music.

Lavie Tidhar's new alternate history imagines a world where Communists took over Germany in 1933, Fascism is on the rise in the U.K. and a down and out German PI in London dreams of world domination.

It's been 23 years since Tad Williams wrapped up his epic Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Now, he returns to the land of Osten Ard in a brief gem of a story that sets up a fresh epic to follow.

After tumultuous and public legal battles, Kesha has released a new album full of the tensions of the recent years.