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Host Howard Berkes talks to NPR White House Correspondent Mara Liasson about the White House reaction to Vice President Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman as his running mate.

The White House has announced that President Bush will travel to Houston for a memorial service for the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia. Host Steve Inskeep talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that for Republican members of the House of Representatives, there's more than the Presidency yet to be decided -- as the majority, they have committee chairmanships to allot. And this year, several junior House members are breaking with tradition and competing with their seniors for leadership.

The Illinois State University campus and Bloomington-Normal community came together May 1 to celebrate the opening of the new shared home of WGLT and The Vidette.

The Commerce Department reported that housing starts rose 0.3% last month, with all of the increase in multi-family housing.

Ellen and Ben Harper both grew up in the Folk Music Center in Claremont Calif., which Ellen's parents founded in 1958. They join Fresh Air to discuss Ellen's new memoir, Always a Song.

The median price of a house sold in the United States is down slightly, for the first time in years.

on the White House's acquisition of FBI background files. Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum took responsibility for the file transfer...but most of the hearing was spent grilling Craig Livingstone, the former Director of White House Personnel Security. Livingstone resigned from his post yesterday.

Two hundred years ago this week, a horse-drawn carriage arriving from Quincy, Massachusetts, pulled up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., delivering President John Adams into the home then known as the President's house. Over the years, the White House has survived a fire and numerous renovations. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Gary Walters, Chief Usher of the White House.

In just over three weeks, the government is expected to run out of money to pay its bills if the debt ceiling isn't raised.