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Before the 2006 North American International Auto show opened this past weekend, more then 35,000 industry professionals and members of the media attended "Industry Preview Days." Steve Inskeep talks to Paul Eisenstein, publisher of the internet magazine The Car Connection.

Pew Research Center's latest polling of African-Americans shows that only a small majority of blacks believe it is appropriate to think of blacks as a single race, because of increasing diversity in their community. And few blacks feel that, as a group, they are better off than five years ago.

The Boss showed up, unannounced, at a bar on the Jersey Shore and played for nearly two hours.

A video shot by a Minneapolis television crew shows U.S. soldiers examining explosives at an Iraqi weapons facility where nearly 400 tons of explosives disappeared. The timing of looting at the facility has become a central issue in the final week of the presidential election. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Eric Westervelt.

Higher taxes and slow hiring cut into consumer purchasing last month. Analysts say is behind a disappointing March retail sales report. Host David Greene has more.

Prosecutors say inmates at a Russian prison were shown Next Three Days. That's the Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks movie about a jailbreak. Prosecutors reprimanded the guards calling the film a "jailbreak manual."

Newly released CIA documents show that the spy agency knew the whereabouts of Adolph Eichmann, as early as 1958. Eichmann, who managed the Nazi extermination of the Jews, had fled to Argentina. In 1960, Israeli agents abducted him and took him to Israel, where he was tried and executed. Robert Siegel talks with historian Timothy Naftali, who has examined the documents.

Animated and defiant, Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi court, declaring himself the "president of Iraq" in a show of unbroken will. The former dictator rejected the seven charges filed against him, which include the gassing of Kurds, the invasion of Kuwait and the murder of Shiite clerics. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Deborah Amos.

Gun sales in Florida have skyrocketed since last month’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, according to gun sellers and state statistics. In...

New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley says this season is a "surprisingly good one," and shares his picks.