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Arlington National Cemetery gets most of the attention on Memorial Day. But the older, smaller Congressional Cemetery -- burial place to veterans, congressmen and other Washington, D.C., residents -- is also full of history. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

This week Koko Taylor became the first female blues singer to received receive a National Heritage Fellowship. We take a moment to listen to her song "Spellbound."

With the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet, the role of intelligence in U.S. policy has come to prominence again, as the CIA and other agencies seek to defuse terrorist cells and foil attempts to spread nuclear materials. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with Amy Zegart , UCLA professor and author of Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC, about the prospects for the Central Intelligence Agency in the post-Tenet era.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Day After Tomorrow, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee honored one of the industry's most prized clowns this past week. Wisconsin Public Radio's Brian Bull reports.

Critic-at-large John Powers considers the network news and the new documentary The Control Room.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to freelance journalist Patrick Graham, who spent a year with the Iraqi resistance in Fallujah. He wrote about his experiences in an article that appears in the June issue of Harper's magazine.

The United States and Britain prepare a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that would endorse the installation of an interim Iraqi government on June 30. The draft also gives U.N. approval for U.S. and other foreign troops in Iraq. It is not likely to be finalized until U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi names the leaders of a caretaker Iraqi government. Hear Peter Kenyon and NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

President Bush says in a national address that keeping the June 30 deadline to return full sovereignty to an Iraqi government is important to proving the United States will not indefinitely extend its occupation. The president's speech from the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn., was the first of a planned series of talks on Iraq. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Don Gonyea.

American musical icon Ray Charles died of complications from liver disease Thursday at his Beverly Hills home. In a career that lasted more than half a century, Charles defied categorization and brought his soulful stylings to jazz, pop, country and R&B.