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Steve Inskeep talks with Sen. John McCain. The Republican from Arizona was one of the 14 senators from both parties that helped craft the compromise reached Monday night on Senate judicial filibusters.

Two teams of scientists, working more than 230 miles apart, have discovered the first new monkey species in Africa in 20 years. The highland mangabey is a brown, furry creature with a distinctive cry. Fewer than 1,000 are believed to exist.

John Williams was already an established composer when he took on Star Wars. That was long ago and far away, in 1976. Nearly 30 years later, he reflects on his role in the making of a cultural milestone.

There's a new marketing tool for book publishers: Trailers on the Web that promote their books. They're called "VidLits." One example: Yiddish with Dick and Jane.

Both the Bush Administration and Congress speak about the need to reform the United Nations. But for the most part, they've called for changes in U.N. management. But they have said little about a plan recently released by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that calls for an expanded the Security Council.

The Senate asks in hearings whether fraud was committed during the dispersal of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid following hurricanes in the South last year.

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on security for judges, in the wake of attacks in Illinois and Georgia. Witnesses include Judge Joan Lefkow of Illinois, whose mother and husband were killed by a former litigant.

The Senate debates the nomination of Priscilla Owen for a federal appeals court judgeship. But much of today's debate has been over the Republican leadership's interest in ending the minority party's right to filibuster judicial nominees. Ending the right to filibuster nominees has been dubbed the "nuclear option."

Michele Norris talks with Scott Graham, editor-in-chief of the Recorder and CalLaw.com, about California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush's nominee to a federal appeals court. He explains why some of her opinions on that court have been so controversial.

Terrance Brown of the American Institute of Architects talks about a recent visit to Sri Lanka, where the AIA is helping guide rebuilding efforts in the wake of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.