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Osama bin Laden's death has reignited debate about whether tactics like waterboarding produce valuable data. Earlier in the program, former Bush administration official John Yoo argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" were crucial to finding bin Laden. Host Michel Martin addresses the other side of this debate with Karen Greenberg, author of books on al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay and torture.

The "Beauty Shop" ladies discuss Lara Logan's 60 Minutes interview about her sexual assault in Egypt, and what Osama bin Laden's death means for the future of terrorism. And as Mother's Day approaches, the ladies reveal how they balance work and life, especially when their jobs take them overseas and into war zones. Host Michel Martin speaks with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana; Mona Eltahawy, columnist on Arab and Muslim issues; Jamie Tarabay, former NPR Baghdad bureau chief; and Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers.

Host Michel Martin and NPR digital news editor Tanya Ballard Brown comb through listener feedback and offer updates to recent conversations on Tell Me More. This week, listeners weigh in on the death of Osama bin Laden and the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides. Ballard Brown also gives an update that Apple has announced a reduction in how long its iPhones store location tracking data.

The average CEO earned $9 million in 2010, a 24 percent increase from 2009.

Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that massive, spinning objects like Earth should warp space and time around them, as well as drag space and time along as they rotate--as a dipper twirling in a honeypot would spin honey. Francis Everitt talks about how NASA's Gravity Probe-B experiment has just confirmed both predictions.

At our first-ever NPR Music Listening Party Thursday night, we played new songs in front of an audience of rabid music fans. And the winner was?

With just the sixth female jockey ever and two female trainers, Saturday's 137th running of the Run for the Roses is taking on something of a "year of the woman" theme.

The group of hacker activists has denied involvement in the theft of personal information from Sony customers, but a new report suggests the group might have had some involvement.

Knights are extortionists. Guilds knock down your house if you don't play by their rules. And you have to wait until the black death kills a third of Europe before anything changes.

Yet more woes for Levine, a divisive orchestral foray into Gaza and the auction of one very expensive violin: your weekly classical news wrap-up.