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The nine Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico for their second debate. Hear NPR's Mara Liasson.

Three Japanese civilians held hostage in Iraq are freed by their captors, a week after being kidnapped near Baghdad. The three -- two aid workers and a journalist -- were received by Sunni clerics who negotiated their release. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

This week, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings for Robert Gates to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

For this final round, every answer is a portmanteau — that's a word created when two words, and their meanings, are combined. Like our favorite meal of the day, brunch!

From Sally Denton, bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power comes The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, the inside story of...

In Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind, neuroscientist and bestselling author David J. Linden explores this critical interface between our...

Bookseller Audrey Bullar from Joseph Beth Booksellers Cincinnati talks about Monday's Opening Day Storytime.

Rita Coleman reads her poem, "Of What Do We Make Our Poetry?"

On this date in 1776, a resolution was approved declaring the United Colonies free and independent states.

On this date in 1941, the United Service Organzation was founded, and with it, a legendary comic was born.