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The Exorcist was just a movie. But as NPR's Kitty Eisele discovered, exorcism can also be a family affair. She retells the story of her great-great-uncle's devil-purging experience in the 1800s.

Host Lisa Simeone reads the most recent batch of letters and e-mail from listeners.

In a video posted to Instagram Monday, Dave Chappelle says he's willing to meet with Netflix employees who are upset over his comedy special, which has come under fire for transphobic material.

A Preview of tomorrow's Holloween visit to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Host Renee Montagne takes the tour with owner Tyler Cassidy. Today, they stop by the crypt of Rudolph Valentino, the wildly popular star of silent movies.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that Israel's parliament, the Knesset resumes its session today as Prime Minister Ehud Barak fights for his political survival. Barak has the support of only 30 percent of the 120 member Knesset and is trying to save his government by forming an alliance with opposition leader Ariel Sharon.

Muslims and Arab-Americans have been working hard this year to become a political force in the United States. However, they say they are seeing some unwelcome roadblocks. NPR's Shirley Jahad reports.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jeff Cardille, founder of www.nadertrader.org, a Web site that encourages voters to swap their vote. Cardille says this idea will help Al Gore win the White House and secure the more than 5 percent of the national vote needed by Ralph Nader to qualify for federal election funds in 2004.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Souief whose latest novel is called A Map of Love. The book melds the cultures of East and West through a plot that covers political upheaval, two parallel love stories and the often hidden world of Arab women.

NPR's John Burnett examines the controversy surrounding a study by two law professors that found major errors in almost 70 percent of death penalty cases. The report stated that the errors were serious enough to warrant a retrial. But not all legal scholars agree with the work, or its definition of what an error was. The study titled, A Broken System, reviewed more than 45-hundred death penalty cases from 1973 to 1995.

NPR's John McChesney reports on some of the uses of Global Positioning System, or GPS. A newer use of GPS is to beam location based advertisements to cell phones, or hand-held computers.