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The Ohio derailment is a reminder of what can happen for millions of Americans who live near railways. There are things people can do to better protect themselves from the hazards of chemical spills.

Ken Tucker, a critic for Entertainment Weekly, offers a review of Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. The four-hour miniseries is scheduled to air on Sunday and Monday on ABC Television.

A private aircraft carrying American missionaries was shot down by the Peruvian air force yesterday when they mistook it for a drug smuggling plane. Host Lisa Simeone talks to freelance reporter Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Peru.

The latest installation in NPR's War Diaries series has a story from a Kuwaiti lawyer whose weekend was punctuated by air raid sirens.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London about the BBC's plan to read the first Harry Potter book on the air (for eight and a half hours) on Boxing Day, December 26.

Simon/Napoleon: Host Scott Simon talks with David Grubin, writer and director of a documentary on Napoleon that is airing on PBS the next two Wednesdays. [12:15]

All Things Considered begins to air portions of the stump speeches of Presidential candidates. We hear from Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who is running for the Democratic nomination.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli talks about her upcoming series on Muslims in Europe with host Liane Hansen. Poggioli's stories will air this week on All Things Considered.

The court's 7-2 decision gave the EPA the right to regulate greenhouse gases. But in a separate 5-4 vote, the justices curbed the agency's attempt to rework one section of the Clean Air Act.

Chemical physicist Stafford Sheehan invented a process that can turn carbon dioxide into yeast. It's now a finalist in the NASA-sponsored Deep Space Food Challenge.