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The music of Frank Loesser has been celebrated and extended by his wife, Jo Sullivan Loesser, since his death in 1969. But her musical relationship with him began earlier, as she starred in the original production of Loesser's The Most Happy Fella.

CIA Director Porter Goss resigns unexpectedly, leaving behind a spy agency still battling to recover from intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as faulty information that helped bring about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Researchers have confirmed that cooking meat too long over a dry, intense heat creates small amounts of cancer-causing chemicals. Unfortunately, that's just the sort of flavor-enhancing fire you get on a backyard barbecue. What's a summer chef to do?

Hard-drinking, tough-talking chef, author and TV show host Anthony Bourdain is always game for a culinary adventure. In his new book, The Nasty Bits, Bourdain describes encounters with raw seal and fried bugs, and his beef with vegans.

Senate leaders from both parties agree on a plan that should allow a long-delayed immigration bill to proceed. But the fate of the underlying legislation, which would strengthen the borders but provide a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants, must still be determined in the Senate next week.

The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a bill providing tax cuts worth $70 billion over five years, following approval of the package in the House on Wednesday. The bill extends current capital-gains tax rates for two years and provides relief for millions of taxpayers from facing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).

The nation's largest phone companies -- AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth -- reportedly have been providing the National Security Agency with call records of millions of Americans. The agency says it is not listening to the calls, only using them to form a database to detect potential terrorist activity.

Even 25 years after Bob Marley's death, the reggae legend's music is unmistakable — and his influence remains strong. Marley experts and fans explore the evolution of a classic song, "One Love," and the lasting legacy of reggae's first international star.

Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from listeners' letters and emails. Among the stories: a staircase at the World Trade Center site; a series on legal immigration; Medicare's drug program; and an effort to ban Hot Cheetos.

President Yushchenko's party did poorly in Ukraine's weekend elections, apparently coming in third. The pro-Russia party led by Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won the largest number of votes, spurring talk of a coalition of other parties to keep the pro-Russia types out of government.