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  • North Korea sold nuclear fuel to Libya, according to a report in The New York Times. Libya surrendered the uranium to the United States earlier this year -- enough to have supplied material for a nuclear bomb. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and New York Times White House correspondent David Sanger.
  • A Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Friday suggests that the global intelligence community, in investigating whether or not Saddam Hussein's government had access to weapons of mass destruction, suffered from a "collective groupthink," which led them to misinterpret "ambiguous evidence." All Things Considered explains the term "groupthink."
  • Three of the leading GOP candidates for president all campaigned in South Carolina on Friday. We have three reports: David Greene is traveling with Mike Huckabee; Debbie Elliot is on the scene with John McCain; and Adam Hochberg is watching Fred Thompson.
  • A report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom finds that thousands of asylum seekers are treated like serious criminals -- placed in solitary confinement and shackled -- while their claims are being evaluated. The commission's co-chair, Felice Gaer, discusses the findings with NPR's Madeleine Brand.
  • After a 20-month investigation, the Sept. 11 commission will release a report offering a broad review of the events of that day, as well as the role Iran and Iraq may have played.
  • An inquiry led by Britain's Lord Butler concludes Saddam Hussein probably did not have weapons of mass destruction. The report finds Prime Minister Tony Blair's government did not deliberately distort prewar intelligence, but calls sources seriously flawed.
  • Gonzo journalist Frank Owen, author of Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, has turned his attention to the history of the drug methamphetamine — and he went on a four-day meth binge as part of his reporting. The book is titled No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth.
  • WNYC reporter Cyndi Rodriguez talks about the latest on the US Airways plane has crashed into the Hudson River. More than 100 people were on board flight 1549 that had taken off from LaGuardia Airport on its way to Charlotte, N.C.
  • New York Times' Charlie Savage visited the prison last month. He tells Fresh Air that it is decaying and exorbitantly expensive, but still holds 149 detainees who can't be sent anywhere else.
  • The Laurel County sheriff’s office said it has no confirmation of social media and state Democratic Party reports that the Ku Klux Klan allegedly…
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