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Singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn's debut album, Song of the Traveling Daughter, shows off her considerable talents playing the banjo. The record also features Bela Fleck, Ryan Hoyle of Collective Soul and Jordan McConnell of the Duhks.

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five before parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.

Vali Nasr, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the forthcoming The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, talks with Robert Siegel about recent sectarian violence in Iraq.

Members of the prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood go on trial Tuesday in a southern California courtroom. Federal prosecutors have linked the white-supremacist gang to a string of murders and attempted murders in California prisons.

National Geographic researchers say they've found the only known copy of the Gospel of Judas, which has been lost for 1,700 years. Instead of portraying him as the greatest traitor of all time, this Gospel describes Judas as one of Jesus' closest friends.

Despite Congress being on a weeklong Memorial Day recess, House lawmakers have returned to Washington for a hearing on the FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office. The search for documents provoked a standoff involving the White House, the Justice Department and House leaders over the reach of executive-branch powers.

Table-saw accidents send more than 60,000 people to seek medical treatment every year, according to federal estimates. In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, SawStop inventor Steven Gass visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission near Washington recently.

There is a long list of former Goldman Sachs employees who've left Wall Street to work for the government. It's an unusual history of public service for a financial firm. Frank Langfitt reports.

In anticipation of a French Open face-off between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, host Steve Inskeep talks to Bud Collins. The Boston Globe columnist, and NBC commentator, talks about the role of coaches during tennis matches.

The mystery of the flaws in one of Norman Rockwell's most famous illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post has been solved: The original has been found, hidden in a secret compartment in a family home, while the painting believed to be the original turns out to be a masterful forgery.