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Bill Frisell is renowned as a versatile musician with a repertoire of blues, country, and rock — but he says he's a jazz guitarist at heart. Frisell describes his first foray into jazz, when he heard master guitarist Wes Montgomery. Marcie Sillman reports.

The Bush administration is determined to paint the U.S. guards at Abu Ghraib as "a few bad apples" -- but many analysts see the abuses in Iraq as a result of the policies used in the war on terror. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Jad Adams, author of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle, about the cultural role the potent green liquor played among artistic circles in 1890s France.

Google Inc., the company behind the Internet's most popular search engine, files its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering. The prospect of a Google IPO has kept Silicon Valley abuzz all year. Google said it expects to raise $2.7 billion through the stock sale, but the first day of trading is likely months away. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney meet with the 10-member bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Members of the commission say they heard some new information during the closed-door meeting but would not specify what that information is. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and commission member Richard Ben Veniste.

Scientists exploring the Gulf of Mexico have discovered seeps in the seabed that resemblesa paved road. Around the asphalt seeps are colonies of shrimp, mussels and tubeworms living off the chemicals from the ocean-floor vent. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Bone Woman, by forensic anthropologist Clea Koff.

The growing number of wireless gadgets, from cell phones and WiFi devices to GPS receivers, is creating a traffic jam on the electromagnetic spectrum. The FCC is looking for strategies that encourage new technologies, while keeping signals clear. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Lawyers representing soldiers in the first of several military trials on charges of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib adjust their courtroom strategy after published reports that one of the accused soldiers, Spc. Jeremy Sivits, will likely plead guilty. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and NPR's Michele Norris.

Producer Jack Chance of Hearing Voices takes a trip to remote Easter Island to record some of the local music. He hears stories about how the island's famous stone heads, called moai, were arrayed around the perimeter of the island many centuries ago.