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Construction of the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, expected to be the biggest embassy in the world, has been riddled with shoddy work and cost overruns. Congress has been holding hearings about the project and is awaiting a response from the State Department.

Airs Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Warwick's bookseller Seth Marko has been reading a chapter a day of James Patterson's "9th Judgment" since April. He started the project hoping to understand the appeal of the world's highest paid author. We'll talk to Marko to see what he discovered.

White People and Classical Music

David Simon, creator of "The Wire," has a new show for HBO called "Treme." It's centered on the lives of musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. If this teaser is any indicator, I'm going to be a happy girl come April when "Treme" launches.

Airs Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Authorities suspect members of a gang of hit men allied with the Juarez drug cartel separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man.

Transportation planners are banking on a futuristic network of ecofriendly computer-automated pod cars as the next smart form of mass transit. Several U.S. cities are doing feasibility studies for personal rapid transit systems, and Britain's Heathrow Airport plans to launch its system in the spring.

Airs Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 4 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Federal Communications Commission says the plan, set to be unveiled Tuesday, will help make Internet access faster, cheaper and more pervasive. But some critics are already calling it a missed opportunity.