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A federal jury just found three ex-lobbyists and a former electric utility CEO guilty of bribery charges.

In a five-to-four ruling, justices grant detainees at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts. This isn't the first time that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of detainees.

Mark Danner, author of the book Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and The War on Terror, is among critics of the Church Report. He says the report fails to look at the policy decisions that led to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

Recent violence in Iraq reflects continuing resiliency among various groups of insurgents. Meanwhile, arguments over how much power to give Sunni Muslim politicians has slowed the development of the fledgling Iraqi government.

At the New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street, once home to the Ziegfeld Follies, the oldest living Ziegfeld girl recently took the stage for a charity event. Doris Eaton Travis is 101. She tells Jeff Lunden about her long life and career.

Poet, philosopher, Heidegger scholar and former priest John O'Donohue has written several books on Celtic spirituality. O'Donohue lives in the Connemara region in the West of Ireland, a haunting landscape of stone, sea and rainbows. His latest book is Beauty.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times since 1978. She won the Pulitzer in 1998 for her coverage of the court. Her new book is Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey.

A downturn in the maple syrup market is having harmful side effects for trees in northern New England. For the first time in decades, the maples remain untapped, with sometimes-dangerous results.

Co-editors Ann and Gerard Gawalt talk about of the new book, First Daughters: Letters Between U.S. Presidents and Their Daughters. These are open and intimate letters between powerful men, and the girls they had very little time to raise. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Phil Jackson's new book, The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul, is a journal of Jackson's 2003-04 season spent coaching the Los Angeles Lakers. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Jackson.