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Morning Edition host Renee Montagne marks NPR's debut of the WXPN music showWorld Cafe with her top five favorite songs. The program out of Philadelphia moves to NPR on Friday, July1, 2005. One of its most popular features is its regular, top five song lists submitted by listeners.

September marks the 350th anniversary of the first Jewish settlement in America. Music commentator Miles Hoffman says one way to celebrate is to listen to a new collection from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music.

Soulsavers is a down-tempo electronica duo made up of English producers and remixers Rich Machin and Ian Glover. The pair's latest album features the vocals of Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.

A duet from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; Bob Dylan remixed by DJ Mark Ronson; British folk guitarist Martin Simpson; The trippy morning face of Small Sins and more.

The presidential election in Haiti has been postponed for the third time amid continuing violence and a lack of trained poll workers and equipment. Elections, set for Dec. 27, are now scheduled for Jan. 8. Michele Norris talks with Mark Schneider, senior vice president and special adviser on Latin America for the International Crisis Group.

Thanks to new technology, archaeologists in the British Museum have just discovered what they say are the earliest-known body art displaying figures.

An impressive debut from Kenny Mason, a Nirvana cover by Amber Mark and some Herculean wordplay from Chris Patrick. This week's Heat Check is all about one-two punches and surprises.

Mark Harris' new book takes a look at five American directors who made films for the War Department during World War II — and how those films changed both their work and American cinema.

In 2000, anthropologist Susan Phillips found markings made by hobos near the Los Angeles River. Phillips talks about the possible author of those marks from 1914, one of America's most famous hobos.

The Supreme Court dealt a major legal blow to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday, refusing to move the Georgia election interference charges against him to federal court.