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This week on Swing with Bill Cartwright , it's a sweet mix of old & new with Rod Stewart's "It Had to Be You," Hoagy Carmichael's "Huggin and a...

Three decades after Prozac arrived, a new kind of antidepressant. And it's based on the party drug "Special K."

Martha Stewart is released from a federal women's prison in West Virginia and will be spending the next five months under home confinement at her estate in New York. Stewart will return to a company with a stock price that's soared while she's been in prison for her part in a stock scandal.

President Bush nominates Stephen Johnson to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Johnson is a 24-year veteran of the agency who has been the acting administrator since Mike Leavitt left to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

On the eve of the yearly session of the National People's Congress, China announces a major increase in its military budget. In Taiwan there are mounting fears, as China's parliament prepares to pass an anti-secession law aimed at blocking Taiwan from declaring independence.

Gunmen assassinate the governor of Baghdad Tuesday morning as he travels to work. Ali al-Haidari is the highest placed Iraqi government official to be killed in eight months. The governor was also a Shia Muslim, further stoking concerns that the elections could be upset by sectarian violence. NPR's Lordes Garcia-Navarro reports.

California voters Tuesday passed a ballot measure that will provide $3 billion for research on embryonic stem cells. The approval of Proposition 71 is in part a reaction to restrictions imposed on the research by President Bush. Hear NPR's Joe Palca.

On Morning Edition, NPR's Bob Edwards interviews George Zambelli Jr., whose grandfather emigrated from Italy to start a fireworks manufacturing business now into its fourth generation. "It's a way to paint the skies," Zambelli says.

Seven American prisoners of war are rescued by U.S. Marines heading north from Baghdad to Tikrit. Gen. Tommy Franks says the five Army soldiers and two pilots, missing for more than three weeks, are in good shape. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Saddam Hussein's top scientific adviser surrenders to U.S. forces in Baghdad. Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi has been tied to Iraq's chemical weapons program, though he insisted as he gave himself up Saturday that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.