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Former Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark has had a bumpy start to her WNBA career. NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Pickman of The Athletic.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman profiles the three U.S. Army Rangers who were killed in an apparent suicide bombing while trying to help a pregnant Iraqi woman. The three -- Army Capt. Russell Rippetoe, Spc. Ryan Long and Staff Sgt. Nino Livaudais -- were from Fort Benning, Ga. April 8, 2003

Independent Producer Ben Shapiro brings us the latest installment in the New York Works series about occupations that are gradually disappearing from the nation's largest city. Today, Cali Rivera tells us about his business making cowbells at his workshop in the Bronx.

If some of Barack Obama's fundraising techniques seem familiar, it may because they're so much like the ones public broadcasters have used for decades. Ben Calhoun of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Linda talks with Ben Ginsburg, National Council for Bush/Cheney 2000, who is in Tallahassee, Florida. Ginsburg talks about the Bush appeal of the Florida Supreme Court decision to the US Supreme Court, how things are likely to progress over the holiday weekend, and the separate issue of counting military absentee ballots.

A group led by Sony confirms that it has agreed to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for nearly $5 billion. The deal would include the studio's vast library of films. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Variety reporter Ben Fritz.

Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) debate President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security. Both tend to be swing voters on major issues, and both say they would consider supporting the president's proposed changes, but with reservations.

The jazz trio headed by Sam Rivers has a new CD out, Violet Violets (Stunt label). Rivers' horn work is complemented by bassist Ben Street and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood.

Hes touring the country promoting his new film, The Bourne Identity, a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck.

Ben Chaney is the brother of James Chaney, who was murdered more than 40 years ago in Philadelphia, Miss. James Chaney offers his reaction to Edgar Killen receiving the maximum sentence, after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the case, where two other civil rights workers were killed.