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Twenty-five years after former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk is murdered, some city officials raise money to place a sculpture of him in City Hall. Milk, California's first openly gay elected official, was killed a year after being elected. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the upcoming week in politics. President Bush tomorrow delivers the State of the Union. He has to deal with an increasingly disillusioned American public on the issues of economic recovery and the possible war in Iraq.

Commentator John Feinstein joins host Bob Edwards to discuss tennis s Australian Open. Serena Williams and Andre Agassi were the big winners.

Consultants recommend a Dracula theme park be built in Bucharest.

In top awards given annually to children's book writers and illustrators, Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi received the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. And My Friend Rabbit, illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann, received the Caldecott Medal, for the most distinguished American picture book for children.

An independent commission on terrorist attacks will meet on Monday for the first time. Created by Congress, the 10-member, bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks will assess the intelligence failures leading up to Sept. 11. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

Host Lynn Neary talks with art historian Victoria Combalia about the use of modern art as torture during Spain's civil war 65 years ago. Combalia says the work of artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Dali was the inspiration for secret cells and torture centers built in Barcelona. She says the torture cells, built in 1938, used geometric abstraction and surrealism to influence and affect prisoners. The torture centers were the creation of French anarchist Alphonse Laurencic.

What do conductor Leopold Stokowski, T.S. Eliot and Grandmaster Flash have in common? They've all won spots on the National Recording Registry, an archive that seeks to preserve the sounds of American culture. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports on the first 50 recordings to be included in the list. Listen to samples of some of the recordings to be preserved.

The BBC's Mike Wooldridge has traveled with inspection teams in Iraq over the past few days. He reports on what they have discovered.

Two Petaluma, Calif., women give birth to triplets on the same day in the same hospital.