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  • NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on an angry public debate over whether pedophiles should be publicly identified. Street mobs have forced wrongly accused men into hiding. Police blame lurid accounts of pedophile crimes in the tabloid press.
  • A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.
  • Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.
  • John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.
  • An ancient fraternity of assassins, a timid accountant, and Angelina Jolie — in a summer-movie mishmash from the director of the head-trippy vampire opus Night Watch.
  • Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer review news accounts from around the world about the Atlanta Olympics - and the problems the foreign press corps has reported on... problems both large and small.
  • NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the film Shattered Glass, a fictionalized account of the false, overly creative reporting by magazine journalist Stephen Glass.
  • NFL:Delanie Walker grabbed two touchdown passes in helping the AFC beat the NFC 24-23 in the Pro Bowl at Orlando. David Carr completed 11 of 15 passes for…
  • The Bullitt Foundation's new Seattle headquarters, billed as the world's "greenest" building, is designed to be entirely self-sustaining. The developers hope it can inspire others to build this way.
  • A Connecticut judge has postponed a hearing on whether state election regulators can subpoena records from the state Democratic Party in a dispute over…
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