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Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses have been accused of price-fixing the premiums charged to their customers. After a three-year investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, the houses have agreed to pay $512 million dollars, and a criminal investigation is pending. Host Jacki Lyden talks with arts reporter David D'Arcy.

White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. Panetta marks among his highest accomplishments bringing order to the White House staff and his role in the President's victory over congressional Republicans in the budget battle.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about the U.S. view of this morning's agreement with the Chinese government to release the 24 U.S. Navy personnel held in southern China for 11 days. The White House has confirmed that an agreement has been reached.

A couple prepares to send their daughter off on her first day of kindergarten in a new piece of short fiction, "The First Day," read here by the author, Silas House. House's latest novel is titled A Parchment of Leaves.

takes up the Ethics Committee's recommendations to reprimand Speaker Gingrich and require him to pay a 300,000 dollar fine for violating House rules. If the House approves those recommendations, as expected, Congressman Gingrich will be allowed to continue as Speaker.

The program side-steps federal housing requirements and offers recipients one year of free, stable housing so they can find work and childcare.

Vice President Cheney went home from the hospital today, one day after undergoing an operation to reopen an artery to his heart. The angioplasty was performed at George Washington University Hospital, not far from the White House. Doctors there canceled plans for a briefing today on the vice president's condition. Mr. Cheney is expected to return to work later this week, although White House staff were not discussing any details of his case. NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea reports.

Friday was the fourth day of voting for House speaker. Photographers captured tense moments in the House chamber as lawmakers negotiated.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to George Ratliff about his new documentary, Hell House. It focuses on a haunted house that a large Pentecostal church outside of Dallas puts together every year to scare people into the arms of God.

Democrats want to change the rules guiding the House ethics committee, saying that Republican changes instituted earlier this year were made to protect embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.