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There is little history of a congressional committee issuing subpoenas for members of Congress. The move escalates the war between House Republicans opposed to the investigation and the panel.

Internationally renowned playwright August Wilson died Sunday at the age of 60 after a battle with liver cancer. Wilson achieved success with his plays Piano Lessons, Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Novelist Louise Erdrich returns to the Ojibwe world in her latest work, but The Painted Drum also explores human relationships. The central character steals the title object in order to give it back to its rightful owners.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' emails from the past week. They comment on a story out of Iraq about a Muslim man who buries the unclaimed dead, Melissa Block's quest for the elusive Wok Hay, and the reporter in the White House pressroom affectionately referred to as the Goyal Foil. We also share a brief message from sound designer Randy Thom about the progress of our Search for Sound project.

During the pandemic scientists launched a vaccine in record-breaking time. Their successful use of mRNA technology could lead to progress in the decades-long effort for an HIV inoculation.

Opponents to embryonic stem cell research point out its moral cost: the destruction of human embryos. Two couples discuss the different choices they made about the embryos they left at a fertility clinic.

Alex Chadwick talks with Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger, about their recent "nuclear family vacation." The two journalists wrote for Slate about their experiences traveling to some of the sites most closely associated with America's nuclear history.

Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, died Monday night in Charleston, S.C. He was 91. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stanley Karnow talks about Westmoreland and his insistence that the United States "did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam."

Fans can finally get to reading the latest installment of the Harry Potter series this weekend, and blind readers will be able to join in soon. The National Braille Press, a nonprofit printer and publisher, will publish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in braille.

A week of coverage from New Orleans to explore what residents and business leaders are thinking about the future of their city begins with visits to a woman at an Algiers church, a husband and wife cleaning up in Saint Bernard Parish and a Holocaust survivor. They are not sure if to stay or leave the city they love.