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The Obama administration is expected to announce the decision to open embassies in the countries' capitals on Wednesday.

Jazz musicians RED RODNEY and SONNY SHARROCK. They're both important jazz figures who recently died. We will rebroadcast previous interviewsO RODNEY was a trumpeter and band leader. He rose through the big band ranks and played in Charlie Parker's quintet. He was known as one of jazz's best improvisers. And he was known for regaling journalists with his stories-- often of dubious veracity. (The interview with SHARROCK will replace the arts review.)REV.:SONNY SHARROCK was a guitarist. His genre was the free-jazz movement of the late 1960's Jon Pareles said in the New York Times that SHARROCK'S "guitar solos streaked and clanged, using blistering speed and raw noise to create music that had both the openness of jazz and power of rock."

This week's puzzle lets you create categories based on the word "winds" in honor of March's fierce winds.

The dictionary added 455 new words and definitions to the dictionary for October to keep up with the evolving English language, including pandemic terms and online shortcuts.

Jakob Dylan discusses the new Wallflowers CD, Rebel, Sweetheart, and tells Melissa Block about the ways his songwriting has changed over the course of five albums.

Thousands rallied Sunday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to demand international intervention in the Darfur region of Sudan. The deadly conflict there is fueled by religious friction and has created millions of refugees.

California Garlic farmer Chester Aaron talks to NPR's Steve Inskeep about his father's Russian soup and several holiday dips that use garlic.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ben Cramer died Monday at the age of 62. His book What it Takes became a classic tome about presidential campaigns.

The group that maintains the tank in West Virginia admits a mistake. They tried to repaint it traditional olive drab. The color seemed wrong from the start, but they thought it would dry differently.

President Bush is urging 15 major nations to agree on a global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plan isn't playing well with critics, including some leaders with whom the president will meet at upcoming G-8 economic talks.