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The Bush administration is running into increasing resistance to altering Social Security. Republicans in Congress are beginning to feel pressure from their constituents as well. The president stumped for changes to Social Security in Iowa Wednesday.

The Presidential Commission on Intelligence Thursday releases the results of its 14-month review of current and previous U.S. intelligence on various threats. The report also offers advice on how to implement intelligence reform legislation.

Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

Fighting also continues at the steel plant in Mariupol, where dozens of civilians remain trapped.

Commentator Richard Howorth is the mayor of Oxford, Miss., and the owner of a well-known bookstore there. He says that many writers have come to Oxford in search of William Faulkner's legacy. And like them, the town has had to find its own identity apart from the celebrated author.

Kenneth Clark, whose studies on racial discrimination helped win 'Brown v. Board of Education,' died this weekend at 90. David Rosner, professor of history and public health at Columbia University — and a former student and colleague — discusses Clark's legacy.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, as the leaked opinion suggests it's prepared to do, it would be a moment of victory for the conservative legal movement.

The U.S. Geological Survey releases the findings of a study on the nation's volcanoes and the risks they pose to local communities. Citing concerns to residents as well as air travellers, geologists are calling for a National Volcano Early Warning System.

For America's daily papers, the news hasn't been good: For nearly two decades, newspapers have been losing paid subscribers. And a new report illustrates that circulation is now dropping more quickly than ever.

An estimated 10 million undocumented workers live and work in the United States, making up a burgeoning, low-wage labor force. NPR's Farai Chideya discusses the issue with two members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).