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In a conversation with NPR's Juan Williams, Alberto Gonzales lays out the goals for his term of office, including "the protection of this country." The new attorney general also cautions against "complacency" in thinking about terrorist threats and setting priorities.

Millions of low-income working families don't belong to the formal banking system. They cash their paychecks at convenience stores and hide their savings at home. Now, some financial institutions are offering the non-banking population new services -- and financial hope.

Barry Werth talks about the tumultuous transition between the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford chronicled in his book 31 Days. Among those who played roles were Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review.

One year ago, President Bush made a speech from Jackson Square in New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina. In it, he made several promises to area residents. NPR White House correspondent David Greene reviews how the process has worked.

Thousands of demonstrators are marching in Jena., La. They're supporting six black teenagers who are charged with beating a white classmate. Christopher Harvey, a political science student at Texas Southern University, shares his views on the protest and case.

A group of bipartisan U.S. senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to be confirmed by the Senate.

The FCC has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote later this month on a proposal to free consumers from the set-top box.

From Simon & Garfunkel to The Knack, hear a playlist of the songs at the top of the pop charts for each year of the decade.

Stubbs gave voice to emotion — to love, to hurt, to desire, to loneliness. Songs like "I Can't Help Myself," "Reach Out, I'll Be There" and "Baby I Need Your Lovin' " made him one of Motown's most recognizable voices. He died Friday in Detroit.