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The bluegrass legends played in NPR's studios, and spoke to host Melissa Block.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with author John Burdett about his new book, Bangkok 8. It's an unusual detective mystery involving "the only honest cop in Bangkok," and evokes the sights and sounds of the Thai city.

DNA technology is helping scientists learn more about a rare genetic phenomenon. When two fertilized eggs fuse in the womb, they create a child with two full sets of genes, called a chimera. NPR's David Baron reports.

At least seven people are killed in an explosion outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers are killed in a gun battle in another part of the Iraqi capital. And in Tikrit, the U.S. military captures at least four suspected Iraqi guerrilla fighters. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Ivan Watson.

Poet W.S. Merwin talks about his memoir, The Mays of Ventadorn, that covers his time in the French countryside. Merwin lived in southern France during the 1950s, and became enchanted by the language of the Troubadours, poet-musicians from 800 years before.

Most recently Hope Davis played the daughter of Jack Nicholson in the movie About Schmidt. Her other roles include Mumford, Next Stop Wonderland, Flatliners and Daytrippers. Davis is starring in the new film American Splendor, which took the 2003 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. She is also starring in The Secret Lives of Dentists.

For decades, basketball has been an all-consuming passion on Native American reservations. But few native players get to play college ball, and none has ever played in the NBA. As NPR's Tom Goldman reports, the sponsors of a new tournament -- the Native American Basketball Invitational -- hope to change that. See pictures from the tournament.

The Galileo spacecraft is sending back its final signals to Earth as its eight-year mission to Jupiter comes to an end. NASA mission managers are sending the spacecraft to its death by crashing it into the giant planet. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

Woody Allen has a new movie out -- not that you can tell from the preview. NPR's Bob Mondello has this review of Anything Else, starring Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs.

U.S. Iraq administrator Paul Bremer appears before a Senate panel to defend President Bush's $87 billion funding request for U.S. operations in Iraq. Bremer warns that if Congress fails to approve more than $20 billion earmarked for reconstruction efforts, Iraq could become a haven for terrorists. Hear NPR's David Welna.