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The Lundberg Survey says the average price of gasoline has gone up 20 cents over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.53. But different areas, or zones, are paying different costs. Michele Norris talks with Elizabeth Douglass of The Los Angeles Times.

During the Civil War, when soldiers were shooting primitive muskets, the United States Navy was building its very first submarine: the USS Alligator. It disappeared in 1863, but historians now think they know where it is. Nell Boyce reports from the waters off North Carolina.

The National Rifle Association is using the experience of Hurricane Katrina to document the importance of guns during a disaster. During the chaos in New Orleans post-Katrina, gun purchases by both civilians and law enforcement swelled.

Like New Orleans, San Francisco suffered mass destruction from a natural disaster when the great earthquake of 1906 left much of the city in ruins. Today, some experts worry that history may repeat itself should a major quake occur along the Hayward Fault, which runs beneath some of the Bay Area's most populated regions.

President Bush's administration is known for its savvy use of technology and media strategy. That work has never been more important than now, with the president's polling numbers slipping and an election in Iraq looming.

President Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, spends four hours testifying in his fourth and final appearance before a grand jury investigating who exposed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Debussy's groundbreaking work La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music and broke new ground in orchestration.

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Jonathan Black from Brockport, N.Y. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WXXI in Rochester, N.Y.)

Author Salman Rushdie has a new book out. Shalimar the Clown is set in Kashmir, the volatile region bordering India and Pakistan that was recently devastated by an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

A U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri implicates Syria in his death and raises more dark questions about Syrian involvement in Lebanon.