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General Motors reported its highest quarterly profit in more than a decade, helped by fuel-efficient cars and smaller sport utility vehicles that were in demand as gas prices marched higher. GM's results follow strong earnings reports at crosstown rivals Ford and Chrysler.

If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, agreements to raise the federal debt ceiling and on a 2012 budget start with a Thursday meeting, the first of likely many between Vice President Biden and a bipartisan group of lawmakers.

You may have heard NPR and its afternoon newsmagazine All Things Considered celebrated a 40th birthday this week. Several op-ed pieces ran in coordination with our big 4-0.

A photo (or could it be a painting?) shows a storm blowing over the Sangin District.

As President Obama heads to Ground Zero to honor 9/11 victims, questions remain about what Osama bin Laden's killing means for the war on terror and for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Host Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, who is renewing his call to draw down troops in Afghanistan.

As many people commemorate Cinco de Mayo with nachos, beer and margaritas, at least one Mexican American is not feeling the party. Host Michel Martin speaks with Gustavo Arellano about America's fascination with a Mexican holiday that is barely observed south of the border. Arellano is the author of the OC Weekly's "Ask A Mexican" column.

Stewart O'Nan's moodily comic novel Emily, Alone follows an 80-year-old woman as she navigates the minutia of everyday life. O'Nan explains how he got inside Emily's head.

In what seems like an upbeat, rollicking song about finding love, Jordan Geiger still hints at the inevitability of loss in "Honey, Please."

A trio of rousing adventure flicks — Fast Five, 13 Assassins and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen -- all opened this past week. David Edelstein says each one is pretty singular, in its own way.

Elaine Hoffman Watts and her daughter, Susan Watts, have kept the Jewish musical tradition alive, by way of an Old World father.