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Former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Richard Ceballos, who blew the whistle on a co-worker's unethical behavior, claims he was fired in retribution for speaking out -- and that his firing was unconstitutional. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the case. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday.

The National Rifle Association is using the experience of Hurricane Katrina to document the importance of guns during a disaster. During the chaos in New Orleans post-Katrina, gun purchases by both civilians and law enforcement swelled.

Debussy's groundbreaking work La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music and broke new ground in orchestration.

Author Salman Rushdie has a new book out. Shalimar the Clown is set in Kashmir, the volatile region bordering India and Pakistan that was recently devastated by an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

A U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri implicates Syria in his death and raises more dark questions about Syrian involvement in Lebanon.

The trial over intelligent design in the classroom continues in Dover, Pa. Parents in the rural public school district are challenging the district over the inclusion of the alternate view to evolution.

Ted Kooser is the nation's poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, but he's the first to agree that writing poems isn't easy. He only wants you to think it is when you read one of his poems.

President Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, spends four hours testifying in his fourth and final appearance before a grand jury investigating who exposed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

In a news conference Thursday morning, President Bush said he was certain his administration's policy of spying without warrant is legal. He also responded to Palestinian election results, saying the United States could not deal with the apparent victor Hamas unless it renounced violence.

Officials in Louisiana are disappointed by President Bush's decision not to support a comprehensive plan for rebuilding New Orleans and the surrounding areas. The proposal, now in Congress, would set up a corporation funded by government-backed bonds that would buy and sell properties in flooded neighborhoods.