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Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson comedy Starsky & Hutch.

Half a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against segregation in schools. Yet patterns of housing and immigration have created in many areas schools that are extremely segregated. NPR's Claudio Sanchez and NPR's Ina Jaffe report from California, where in some places, the level of segregation is as intense as any in 1954.

A new company is helping motorists in New York, Washington and San Francisco fight their parking tickets online. Parkingticket.com says customers beat tickets at least 70 percent of the time. San Francisco officials dispute that figure and say motorists don't need help from a private company to get justice in traffic court. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

Spanish police arrest five more people in connection with the March 11 terrorist attack on the Madrid train system. Investigators believe some of the suspects are linked to suicide bombings in Casablanca last May. The Madrid attack's death toll rose to 202 when a 22-year-old Peruvian woman died of wounds suffered in the blast. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli.

NPR's Juan Williams talks with Gen. Pete Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the status of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pace says the military has gotten better about troop rotation, and that morale is good overall.

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Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews some silent musical scores by the Alloy Orchestra. They write and perform new music for silent films. Schwartz looks at their scores for the Buster Keaton films, The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr. (on DVD, Image Entertainment).

Political observers are closely watching the race to win the Illinois Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald. Many see Democratic candidate Barack Obama as his party's best chance to overturn the Republican majority in the Senate. If elected, Obama would become the third African-American senator since Reconstruction. Hear NPR's David Schaper.

A fierce debate erupts in the House over a Republican-backed resolution commending U.S. troops for their valor and declaring the world a safer place after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Outraged Democrats accuse the Bush administration of misleading the public about Iraq's banned weapons and of discrediting U.S. foreign policy around the world. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook.

The U.S. military says a suicide car bombing caused the massive explosion that destroyed the Mount Lebanon Hotel in downtown Baghdad Wednesday, killing and wounding dozens of people. But on the streets, angry Iraqis blame U.S. missiles for the blast. Meanwhile in Baquba, at least six people are killed in two separate attacks on Iraqi journalists and a U.S.-funded TV station. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.