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Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and other stars testify on Capitol Hill about performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball. Former star Jose Canseco said illegal steroids have been widely used in the sport. Players also asked lawmakers to focus on the future and not the past.

Gunmen pretending to seek emergency medical care kill an American soldier in western Iraq. The death marks the 29th U.S. military fatality in Iraq since President Bush declared an end to hostilities on May 1. U.S. officials report an increase in coordinated attacks carried out by men they describe as trained military professionals. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

Jazz singer Kurt Elling is only 32-years-old but he's already causing quite a stir in the jazz world. Elling has been called one of the most innovative jazz vocalists of the country. He has collaborated with jazz masters Jon Hendricks and Mark Murphy. His new CD is called Live in Chicago and was recorded at Chicago's Green Mill Lounge on Blue Note (1999). (15:30) Check out Kurt Elling's website at www.kurtelling.com

With the same careful attention to harmony and craftsmanship that's marked Nada Surf's career, If I Had a Hi-Fi is a collection of cover songs. In this session from World Cafe, Nada Surf performs its own takes on The Go-Betweens, Depeche Mode and Bill Fox.

To mark the one-year anniversary of the most popular Tiny Desk Concert ever and the 10th anniversary of his debut album, T-Pain played our Washington, D.C. headquarters.

The immigration bill shaping up in the Senate would mark a drastic change in four decades of immigration law. The proposal resembles laws in Canada and Australia. Critics are warning of potential pitfalls.

NASA has announced that Lockheed Martin will build America's new space capsule, called Orion. Expected to orbit Earth by 2014, Orion is expected to reach the moon by 2020. Although the capsule design has not been deemed to be especially exciting, unlike earlier capsules, Orion will be reusable. Melissa Block talks with U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Lewis about the spacecraft.

Most retrospectives of 1967's "Summer of Love" skimmed over the emergence of soul and R&B music. Pop culture expert Mark Anthony Neal talks about the political and social significance of the music.

In this Tiny Desk, Oh presents a mix of cuts from her 2023 release, The Glass Hours, and new works.

This month marks the Hubble Space Telescope's 28 years in space, and as a gift to us earthlings, NASA and the European Space Agency issued photos of colorful, explosive beauty.