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Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) accuses CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson of working to politicize public broadcasting at a mid-day press conference. At the session, Dorgan released CPB emails and other documents showing "raw data" from a report Tomlinson secretly commissioned to track public broadcasting shows for political content.

The Black Eyed Peas are on a roll. They are out on tour supporting a CD that is near the top of the Billboard Album Charts. Monkey Business is the group's second release to win them fans nationwide.

Did Iran's new president take part in the 1979 hostage crisis? Some Americans held captive say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among their captors. Iran denies it. Gary Sick, a member of the U.S. National Security Council in 1979, offers his insights.

NASA's Deep Impact projectile run into Comet Tempel 1 at 23,000 mph. The collision should be visible in the United States, west of the Mississippi River, Sunday night; the aftermath should be visible July 4. Robert Siegel talks with Kelly Beatty of Night Sky and Sky and Telescope magazines.

John Prine, an acclaimed singer/songwriter, has gone through the ups and downs of a music career. During his 30-plus years in the music business, his work has included acoustic folk, rock, and country. His new CD is Fair and Square.

Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was published recently.

The NY Times did an exhaustive survey of the Fox News host's broadcasts. Reporter Nicholas Confessore says Carlson's show is based on ideas that were once "caged in a dark corner of American life."

Newsweek has retracted a story from its May 9 issue that set off deadly riots in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries. The item alleged that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay put a copy of the Quran into the toilet while questioning prisoners. Newsweek attributed the story to an unnamed source at the Pentagon.

Forty years ago, two astronomers heard noise on a radio telescope that bolstered the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson recall their Nobel Prize-winning discovery.

Author Scott Hershovitz sets out to prove that philosophy, like inquisitive, rowdy children, can offer illuminating insights — even when addressing complex subjects related to misbehavior.