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NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Kimberly Wehle, a law professor and author of "How to Read the Constitution and Why," about the key takeaways from the seventh House Jan. 6 committee hearing.

Washington state's attorney general said Motel 6 shared information about approximately 80,000 guests in the state and that guests faced questioning from ICE, detainment and deportation as a result.

Journalist Matthieu Aikins shed his own identity and traveled with his Afghan interpreter along smugglers' routes to reach Europe and escape the Taliban. His book is The Naked Don't Fear the Water.

March 21, 2023 — Comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on former President Donald Trump's pending indictment; a recap of Nikki Haley's recent presidential campaign stop in Myrtle Beach; the latest on investigations into South Carolina's Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom's $3.5 billion accounting error; and more.

Laura Shapiro has likened her method of biographical research to "standing in line at the supermarket and peering into the other carts." Critic Maureen Corrigan says her resulting book is fascinating.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Martin Cruz Smith. The author of Havana Bay and Gorky Park now has a new novel of international intrigue, called December 6 (Simon & Shuster, ISBN 0-684-87253-6), set on the brink of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941.

Kids are showing reading gains in dual-language classrooms. There may be underlying brain advantages at work.

The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City has had his conviction thrown out. A jury convicted Pedro Hernandez following his confession in the notorious abduction.

Liane talks with Mark Frost about his latest novel, The 6 essiahs, which continues the fictitious adventures of 19th-century author rthur Conan Doyle. (William Morrow)