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In the wake of the recent arrest of an alleged accomplice in the Red Lake shootings, NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with former FBI Special Agent Frank McCrary about profiling suspects.

NPR's David Schaper reports on plans by the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese to close 23 schools in the city and surrounding suburbs at the end of this school year. The closings could displace more than 4,000 students, mostly in poor and minority neighborhoods.

In a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court made it easier for older workers to sue employers for age discrimination. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Slate's Emily Bazelon about the decision.

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.