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Reporter Jon Lee Anderson, of The New Yorker magazine, talks with Renee Montagne about Fidel Castro's inner circle. He identifies three men beyond Raul Castro who are likely to play an important role in Cuba once Fidel Castro makes his final exit from the scene.

President-elect Barack Obama is set to announce his national security team Monday. The list of people will be familiar to many Americans. Hillary Clinton is expected to be named secretary of state.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey says he wants Congress, not judges, to make policy on how Guantanamo detainees may challenge their detention. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Bush administration three times in cases related to processing Guantanamo detainees.

Why all the adulatory attention, critics ask, for Jonathan Franzen's latest domestic drama about marriage and family? Even though Franzen gets more praise for doing what many fine female writers do "backwards and in heels," critic Maureen Corrigan says Freedom has earned its accolades.

Brandy Monk-Payton, a media and Black cultural studies scholar at Fordham University, talks with All Things Considered host Michel Martin about the ABC franchise and its record on race.

Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, talks about why Iran's government is unwilling to compromise on compulsory headscarf rules.

Babe Ruth would have been 129 this week. Baseball has changed over the years, but one thing that has endured is fans' fascination with one of the greatest sluggers ever to set foot on the diamond.

The House and the Senate have approved a short-term measure to keep the full federal government funded until early March.

Conservative trustees fired a community college president over a mask mandate and events since then look likely to shut the school down. At stake are essential workforce training programs.

Northeast Ohio Medical University announced in late February that its interpretation of a U.S. Department of Education letter was that it can no longer provide funding to race-based campus student organizations and celebrations like Black History Month.