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The FBI plans to move forward with a facial recognition system that's set to be fully implemented by 2014. Facial recognition is just one part of many biometric tools the FBI eventually plans to use to gather and store intelligence information, including fingerprint searches and iris scans.

The Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad calls the Syrian battle fluid and complicated. "There is chaos, there is no military planning, there is no organization," he tells Fresh Air. He reported for the PBS Frontline documentary The Battle for Syria, which airs Tuesday.

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener feedback about previous Talk of the Nation show topics, including listener reports on the current state of the U.S. housing market, and what keeps people impoverished.

Carly Rae Jepsen and Kanye West both released albums today that double down on their summer success.

James Carter IV was instrumental in negotiating the release of the full, unedited video.

Some creationists are taking offense at Dr. Pepper's new take on a famous 1965 evolutionary drawing called "March of Progress." And the outrage and "counteroutrage" are spreading across social media.

Samuel Beckett, the author of Waiting for Godot, is known for the spare, modern rhythms of his plays. Now, as Jeff Lunden explains, the off-Broadway show Sounding Beckett brings together three of the playwright's short works with new pieces of contemporary music they inspired.

David Corn, the man behind the release of a surreptitiously shot fundraising video, tells NPR's Michel Martin that the source was stunned by the material he caught on camera.

On Monday, Mother Jones magazine released a video of Mitt Romney making controversial remarks at a private fundraising event. Audie Cornish talks to David Folkenflik about how the magazine got and verified the video.

The Hattiesburg Jaycees hold an annual blood drive to replenish the area's blood supply.