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Host Melissa Block talks to Sen. Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who wrote the Senate bankruptcy bill, and to bankruptcy lawyer Mark Zuckerberg, who opposes the measure.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the Amtrak passenger train that jumped the tracks early this morning in a remote area of Iowa. Several cars were knocked on their sides, killing one person and injuring 90.

An ancient infectious disease has returned to El Salvador. For NPR and American Radioworks, correspondent Daniel Zwerdling reports on the outbreak of Dengue Fever in the Central American nation.

NPR critic Bob Mondello reviews the latest film by novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle, the romantic comedy When Brendan Met Trudy.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Portland, Oregon native Erika Lee, who now lives in New Castle West in County Limerick, Ireland. Two years ago, Erika became the proprietor of "J. O'Sullivans," after winning the "win your own pub contest" sponsored by Guinness. She's enjoying her new life.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added more than 400 new words and definitions — including fluffernutter, dad bod and vaccine passport.

Illinois lawmakers gave final approval in the early hours of Friday morning to a new congressional redistricting plan that divides the state into 17 districts, one fewer than it currently has due to its loss of population since the 2010 U.S. Census.

NPR's David Welna reports on the second installment of President Bush's tax plan, which passed the House Ways and Means Committee today on a party-line vote. This installment, which the full House is expected to take up next week, focuses on the so-called marriage tax and the child tax credit. But Democrats argue -- and some Republicans agree -- that none of this addresses the immediate problem of the faltering economy.

Some say the financial markets continue to decline because the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by just half a percent earlier this week. Commentator Lyle Gramley, who is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, says Wall Street's decline is more about the slowdown in the economy. A previous Fed commentary aired yesterday. In that piece, Bert Ely said the Fed's interest rate cut was too little, too late, and that the Fed has a history of either under or overreacting.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that President Bush has decided to end a five-decade tradition of the American Bar Association screening potential federal judicial candidates. White House Counsel Al Gonzales has written to the ABA, informing the group the White House will no longer provide names before they are made public. The ABA has a special committee that has screened candidates since the Eisenhower administration. The panel gave potential judges the ratings of "well qualified," "qualified" or "not qualified." Some conservatives opposed ABA screening, saying they believed the ABA had a liberal bias.