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The Compassion Caravan is set to hit the streets of Lexington tonight, looking for anyone who needs shelter as temperatures fall into the teens. Ginny…

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, faces tough questioning from Senate Democrats at his confirmation hearings. Responding to multiple accusations that he used intelligence politically, Goss pledged to provide non-partisan intelligence. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

For the first time since the Vietnam War, the U.S. electorate is more concerned about foreign affairs and national security than the economy. That's the conclusion of polling data released this week by the Pew Center for the People and the Press. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Center.

From a man with his pet rooster in Bali to the victim of an acid attack in Iran, here are some of the featured images from the Sony World Photography Awards.

Hear the singer discuss her new album, Master of My Make Believe, and describe her attempts to "broaden the lane" of what constitutes pop music.

It had been more than 40 years since the Calbuco volcano erupted. It's blown twice this week — generating striking images and concerns over the effects of both the lava and a mammoth cloud of ash.

Burger King recently added smoothies and more wraps and salads to its menus. Its latest creation doesn't seem to fit the trend: a bacon sundae. The food chain claims the concoction of vanilla soft serve, fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles — oh, and a strip of bacon — weighs in at a whopping 510 calories.

Philadelphia's Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is retiring at the end of the year. Under his watch, the murder and violent crime rates are lower than they've been in decades.

There's a pumped-up sports anthem by a star cricket player, a moody Latin duet and a Malaysian song flavored with American rock, Chinese folk and Malay opera.

A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. They were not the only Marines there. NPR asked the Corps' top officer a question: Do the Marines have an extremism problem?