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Details are emerging about President Obama's inauguration next month. Unlike in 2009, a record-breaking crowd is not expected in Washington, D.C., this coming Inauguration Day. Plus, the festivities are expected to cost less than four years ago.

The 19th-century courtesan died at 23 of tuberculosis, but her legacy inspired a successful play, several movies and the great Italian opera La Traviata. In The Girl Who Loved Camellias, Julie Kavanagh tracks her journey from Normandy peasant girl to romantic heroine.

Mark Landler of The New York Times discusses Clinton and Obama's contrasting views on America's role in the world. Clinton, Landler says, was often the hawk, more willing to intervene with force.

Announcing the arrests of the two Palestinians who were born in Iraq, law enforcement officials say there was no sign of a plot to carry out an attack in the U.S.

The New York Times Co. announced Wednesday that it plans to sell The Boston Globe and its related properties.

An attempt to purge tens of thousands of "dead" voters from its election rolls has spawned a backlash across the state, involving the registrar in the state's biggest county, the secretary of state and the Texas Democratic Party.

The newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include U2, The Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, and the O'Jays.

The Senate Finance Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would take steps to cover more Americans while holding down costs. A jubilant Committee Chairman Max Baucus celebrated the "yes" vote of the lone Republican, Sen. Olympia Snowe, while acknowledging many more challenges lay ahead in merging competing bills.

Charles Samuels is the first African American to run the U.S.l Bureau of Prisons that supervises more than 200,000 inmates nationwide. Samuels faces multiple challenges — from overcrowding in prisons to budget pressure in Congress.

Car 54, Where Are You?, the TV comedy series about a mythical police station in the Bronx, was created by Nat Hiken in 1961. It's just appeared for the first time on DVD to the delight of fans, including critic Lloyd Schwartz.

NPR commentators favor Jennifer Close's look at women facing marriage and Amanda Hodgkinson's post-World War II family drama. There are also memoirs by actor Christopher Plummer and nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, plus Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams re-evaluate universities for the digital age.

Packing KEXP's studio with a wall of sound, The Heavy performs four gritty, funk- and soul-infused garage-rockers. Fronted by versatile singer Kelvin Swaby, the British band kept the walls vibrating, even after it left.