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Bluegrass legend Del McCoury, a devout Baptist and internationally known musician, is getting around to something that he's always wanted to do in his five-decade career — he's releasing his band's first gospel album.

A quarter century after the group first formed in New York, Sonic Youth remains one of rock's more inspired, creative bands. Now on tour the trio visits Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club

Food delivery service Grubhub launched a free lunch promotion on Tuesday in New York City. It didn't go well. Both customers and restaurateurs were left frustrated.

Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.

The new poet laureate of the United States will be introduced Wednesday. The poems of Donald Hall, a New Hampshire native, have been compared to those of Robert Frost. He will succeed Nebraskan Ted Kooser.

President Bush, back from a visit to Iraq, says violence there will never be eliminated but that a security crackdown and new intelligence on terrorism are contributing to "steady progress."

With 16+ years and nine studio albums behind it, the British rock band The Charlatans U.K. combines Stones-y swagger with dance and electronica. The band's new album is surprisingly mature, with a heightened emphasis on group interaction.

Hollywood does not regard summer as a time for costume epics, unless the costumes are made of spandex. Historical movies tend to be released in the fall. But The Illusionist, a romantic drama set in the early 1900s, is bucking that tradition.

A Shiite religious ceremony in southern Baghdad is again marred by violence when gunmen open fire on pilgrims, killing 20. The annual event, which drew hundreds of thousands, was disrupted last year when rumors of suicide bombers in the crowds sparked a stampede that killed more than 1,000.

Fierce battles have been raging in Afghanistan recently, making it the country's deadliest summer since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Hundreds of Afghans and scores of soldiers from U.S.-led forces have died.