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The nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills. There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men — two violent films set in the American West — each received eight nominations.

When Common entered the hip-hop scene more than a decade ago, his socially aware style clashed with more commercial forms of rap. Buffeted by new beatmakers, Common has since attracted a wider audience with a message many feel is missing in mainstream hip-hop.

A day after the first major debate of the 2008 campaign, Democratic presidential candidates press the flesh in South Carolina. The annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner is Friday night, followed by a fish fry hosted by Rep. James Clyburn.

More than a dozen wildfires are burning out of control in Southern California, threatening thousands of homes and forcing evacuations in San Diego County. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in the region.

Foreign aid can be a mixed blessing. For a while, in one small Nigerian town, the money flowed. Five years later assistance came to an end, and that left thousands of orphans to fend for themselves. NPR’s Brenda Wilson reports.

Presidential candidates — and often presidents themselves — sometimes have trouble living up to the images of heroic commanders-in-chief on the big screen. In honor of Presidents Day, film critics Shawn Edwards and Julio Martinez discuss how fictional characters relate to the true American political experience.

At a White House news conference, President Bush covers a variety of subjects. He says Democrats who have declined to pass a war-spending bill satisfactory to the administration are wasting their time.

In the next few weeks, millions of songbirds, shorebirds and waterfowl will begin arriving in Alaska to breed. These migratory birds -- some of which wintered in Southeast Asia -- could bring with them the deadly strain of bird flu known as avian influenza A, or H5N1.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop says Antonin Dvorak's symphony "From the New World" was one of the first big orchestral works to incorporate indigenous American musical ideas. She discusses the music with Scott Simon.

The ancients didn't use radioactive Polonium-210 to take out their enemies, but poisoning has long associated with the deaths of the powerful -- though not always through assassination. Classics commentator Elaine Fantham reminds Scott Simon of some historic poisoning cases, starting with Socrates.