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"Bluegrass Signal" welcomes members of Windy Hill to the KALW studios. The band started many years ago by two high school friends in Menlo Park. Their…

President Obama has made national security an area of strength during his presidency. But Mitt Romney planned to use a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday to chip away at that advantage, hammering Obama on looming defense cuts and for alleged leaks from the White House.

In entertainment news: Netflix has its day in the sun, receiving nominations for "House of Cards" and its reboot of "Arrested Development."

It's official: Sean Connery IS James Bond, according to NPR readers who weighed the question this week. Connery set the gold standard as 007, the spy known for his playfulness, his ruthlessness — and his ability to look good in a suit. The Bond film franchise turns 50 today.

Chris Kimbrough set a women's record running the beer mile. You run four laps around a track, stopping before each lap to drink a beer. Video shows her, at age 44, finishing in 6:28.6.

The International Rescue Committee warned that its goals of ending poverty, hunger, disease are failing. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the IRC's president about how to reverse course.

Language inserted into a broad appropriations bill would block funding for a Labor Department effort to reduce the occurrence of black lung.

Foreign aid is being attacked by presidential candidates and members of Congress. It looks certain that assistance to other countries, which makes up a miniscule percentage of the overall budget, is about to be cut even further.

No, really. Some serious scientists collaborated with Facebook in 2010 and found that the app added 340,000 additional voters that election cycle.

Filmmakers Chris Whipple and Jules Naudet discuss their Showtime documentary, Spymasters, which features 12 former CIA directors discussing the tough choices they've had to make in fighting terrorism.

Also: Pressure builds on Egypt's Morsi; Snowden seeks asylum from more than 20 countries; accused Fort Hood shooter expected to plead guilty; former Rep. Bill Gray, D-Pa., dies; and Apple's iWatch trademark filings are spotted.

On David Letterman, the Texas governor had some fun at his own expense. Excuse No. 10: ""There were three reasons why I messed up last night: 1) The nerves 2) The headache and 3) Um...Uh...Oops."