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Sen. Edward Kennedy led off the Democratic Convention Tuesday night, giving a hometown sheen to the second night of speeches and events.

A new book — out in time for the 150th anniversary of the bloody Crimean War battle — takes a look at the events that led to the ill-fated charge memorialized by the Tennyson poem "Charge of the Light Brigade."

New England is experiencing what may be the region's worst-ever outbreak of red tide, an algae bloom that has infected shellfish beds along the coast from Maine to Cape Cod. Pam Belluck of The New York Times and Liane Hansen discuss the red tide's effects.

Chief justice nominee John Roberts takes questions from senators seeking definitive answers on issues from abortion to the environment to stopping a war. But Roberts refused to say whether, for example, he would vote to overturn or restrict abortion rights.

The noted travel writer has been to many of the Earth's more exotic places. But he returns to familiar territory with a new memoir. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid takes a warm look at Bryson's formative years in 1950s Des Moines, Iowa.

The battle of Waterloo stopped Napoleon and made a hero of the Duke of Wellington. But historian Peter Hofschroer tells Liane Hansen that a scale model of the battle made by one Lt. William Siborne shows how Wellington supressed key details, including the key role of Prussian forces.

Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, wants readers to reconsider what they think they know about countries like Saudi Arabia. It's widely known that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. Cole says some people abuse that fact to fuel suspicion of the Saudi government, or of the Saudi strain of Islam known as Wahhabism.

Taylor Branch spent nearly 24 years researching and writing a three-volume biography of Martin Luther King Jr. He joins Fresh Air to disccuss the struggles and triumphs of the last three years of King's life.

The British Broadcasting Corp. was formed on Oct. 18, 1922. It's now an iconic source for news around the world.

In what NASA is calling a bizarre and sad story, an astronaut is accused of attempted kidnapping and murder. Police say that Lisa Nowak planned to kidnap and kill someone she considered to be a romantic rival for the affection of another astronaut. Nowak, 43, is a married mother of three.