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As Morning Edition marks its 40th anniversary, the show revisits some of its perfect imperfections.

Songwriter Alejandro Escovedo returns to the stage for multiple choice quiz that challenges his baseball expertise in a game about mundane baseball injuries... will he hit a home run?

Why do men still make 20 percent more than women in the U.S.?

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona has died after months of suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer. A look at McCain's political career and his life.

In Southeastern Australia, a troop of marsupials is giving new meaning to the word "frolic."

President Bush endorses the 9-11 Commission's recommendations for the creation of a national intelligence director and counterterrorism center. But the offices will not be established inside the White House, as the commission proposed.

A roadside bomb in western Iraq kills 14 U.S. Marines, one of the deadliest single attacks on U.S. forces since the war's start. In southern Iraq, police find the body of an American journalist who was abducted and shot dead.

President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry continue to stump throughout battleground states. On Wednesday both candidates descended on the Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Fighting continues in Najaf between U.S. forces and militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The militia remain concentrated in and around the Imam Ali shrine. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Irek Hamidullin, 55, a one-time Soviet tank commander in Afghanistan, stayed behind after Moscow's forces were withdrawn in 1988. He went on to mastermind a 2009 attack on an Afghan base.