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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist joins Ed Gordon to discuss Republicans' 2006 agenda, and how black Americans should look to the GOP -- instead of their traditional alliance to the Democratic Party -- as the party best aligned to the interests of the African-American community.

The new book While They're At War is the product of dozens of interviews with husbands and wives of those serving in the military. The stories collected by journalist Kristin Henderson, herself the wife of a veteran, describe wives waiting at home in a haze of anticipatory grief.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a fellow hunter during a weekend quail-hunting trip at a Texas ranch. Millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, 78, was peppered with shotgun pellets in the face and chest in the accident Saturday afternoon, but is reported to be in stable condition in a Corpus Christi hospital.

Many of us know Danica McKellar as Winnie on The Wonder Years, or from her recurring West Wing role. But she's also a math scholar who recently proved her own theorem. She talks numbers with Scott Simon and Stanford professor Keith Devlin.

Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the 1950s and 1960s. They tell Debbie Elliott about Gospel Music.

The Supreme Court rules in favor of Oregon's physician-assisted-suicide law in a 6-to-3 decision. The justices find the state has the right to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for terminally ill, mentally sound patients.

Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a doctor of medical oncology, hospice and palliative medicine in Oregon, talks about how the Supreme Court ruling to uphold physician-assisted suicide in his state will affect his practice.

The father-daughter radio team of Mal and Jennifer Sharpe continue their exploration of what they call photo walls with a visit to The Magic Castle in the Hollywood Hills.

Martin Luther King Day had a special significance in New Orleans this year. It was a day to remember the slain civil rights leader, but -- nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina -- it was also a day for renewal and frank discussion about what kind of city New Orleans should be.

President Bush meets with Chinese president Hu Jintao to discuss trade and currency issues. He also attends services at one of China's few state-sanctioned Christian churches, and presses the premier to expand religious, political and social freedoms.