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Jacki Lyden talks with David Rohde, South Asia co-bureau chief for The New York Times, about the men who have returned to Afghanistan and Pakistan from Guantanamo Bay, where they were being detained by the U.S. military.

Russian officials are still ducking questions about the nature of the debilitating gas that their commandos used to end the Moscow theater siege. But as NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, evidence is growing that it was a powerful opiate.

Federal prosecutors file a complaint alleging that John Allen Muhammad killed six people in Maryland and one person in Washington, D.C. The 20-count document could pave the way for a federal death sentence. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

Jacki Lyden talks with Eleanor Dwight about her biography, Diana Vreeland. Vreeland was a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. Jackie Kennedy said Vreeland was her "fashion mentor" and she is credited with helping launch the careers of Lauren Bacall, Mary McFadden, Issey Miyake and Richard Avedon.

U.S. prosecutors file a complaint alleging that John Allen Muhammad killed six people in Maryland and one person in Washington, D.C. The 20-count document could pave the way for a federal death sentence. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

There's plenty of data and science about how vaccines for COVID-19 save lives. But for some, the case for vaccination has to be a religious one.

Netflix's "Squid Game" became its most streamed show ever this week.

David Card shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics this week with two other economists, in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the field of labor economics.

Thousands honor the late Sen. Paul Wellstone at a memorial in Minneapolis Tuesday night. The Democratic senator, his wife and daughter, three campaign aides and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota last week. Tom Scheck reports.

Georgia Public Radio's Susanna Capelouto reports that next week, Georgia will become the first state in the country to have every vote cast on a touch-screen computer system. There are concerns the new technology could scare some people away from the polls so a big effort is underway to get voters comfortable with the new machines.