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After two recent attacks on the U.S. Capitol — Jan. 6 and the breach last week when a man rammed a barrier, killing an officer — a debate over fencing and stepped up security is front and center.

The new movie is made up of footage originally shot in the early 1970s, which Luhrmann found in storage in a Kansas salt mine.

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, one man embarks on a journey to a remote mountain in Laos where his father was last seen during a secret mission in the war.

New tests confirm that Ludwig van Beethoven suffered from lead poisoning. The legendary composer, who experienced decades of illness that left him in misery for most of his life, died in 1827. Researchers aren't sure why his lead levels were so high, but they have some ideas.

School begins today in Lafayette, La., for 30,000 students in the district and more than 4,000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. For the hundreds of thousands of students and their families displaced by the storm, getting back to their studies is a huge step towards putting their lives back together.

Carly Simon, with Moonlight Serenade is on her fourth recording of American classics by composers like George & Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter. She talks about her musical life, then and now.

Friday marks the 85th birthday of Nelson Mandela, whose own life is a mirror of the struggle and victory against apartheid in South Africa. Producer Roy Hurst shares his thoughts on Mandela's life and legacy -- read the 1964 speech Mandela gave before being sentenced to life in prison on Robben Island.

Months of bad news from Iraq have hurt President Bush's standing, with a new NPR poll of likely voters giving him a 50-percent approval rating, down from 53 percent in March. The poll also shows President Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in a statistical dead heat. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

Walter Mosley tells NPR's Cheryl Corley about his latest novel, The Man in My Basement. The best-selling author examines race, freedom and power in a book that chronicles an unusual relationship between two men -- one black, one white.

Raul Malo's new solo album of dreamy, romantic cover songs channels the sounds of Roy Orbison and Etta James. He says the trick was to pay tribute to the originals while doing them his own way.