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The New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail Thursday after striking a deal to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of a CIA agent.

Larry Appelbaum of the Library of Congress recordings division talks about previously undiscovered tapes of a 1957 Carnegie Hall performance of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.

In 1992, a former KGB archivist smuggled the Soviet Union's darkest secrets out of Russia. A new book based on highly classified documents chronicles the KGB's exploits in the Third World.

Rosa Gwinn and her partner made a New Year's resolution to visit every remaining duckpin bowling alley in the United States. Gwinn talks about their mission and why the sport is so difficult.

Weeks of rain have brought on mudslides throughout Central America. Guatemala is the hardest hit country with more than 600 people dead and hundreds more missing.

Youth Radio commentator Calen Robertson remembers childhood days during which he stayed with his divorced dad at "borrowed" houses -- a network of friends' homes where he and his brothers could briefly live with their dad in a joint-custody limbo.

At least 1,000 people are believe dead in Pakistan and India after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit early Saturday morning. The quake was centered about 60 miles north of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

Acting Director David Paulison tells the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will review no-bid contracts awarded after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The contracts are worth millions of dollars.

George McKee Elsey quietly witnessed and participated in the making of American history as an aide to two presidents — Roosevelt and Truman. Now 88, he tells his story in An Unplanned Life.

Florence Nightingale once warned about a major cruelty inflicted on sick people: unnecessary noise. And despite advances in medicine, researchers say today's hospitals are still as noisy as bus stations. But at Johns Hopkins Hospital, engineers are trying to create some peace and quiet.