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  • Woody Allen has a new film back on American soil, Johnny Depp plays legendary gangster John Dillinger, and director Kathryn Bigelow brings us the critically acclaimed film The Hurt Locker. We'll discuss all these films and more on this month's Film Club of the Air.
  • The American public, military and the intelligence community were all affected by the Iraq war. Tom Ricks of the Center for a New American Security, retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson and Army veteran Andrew Exum discuss how Americans will remember the war, and what we should learn from it.
  • The Democratic-led Congress officially waves the white flag of surrender on its top domestic issue: the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. Democrats repeatedly sought to increase funding for the program, but in the end passed a bill to continue SCHIP in its current form.
  • After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.
  • The list of political figures passing through eastern Iowa's 1st Congressional District includes the first lady of the United States and Sen. Barak Obama (D-IL). They're visiting Iowa in hopes of helping their parties win a single open House seat.
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits China to coordinate with officials there on enforcement of a U.N. resolution against North Korea. There are indications that the U.S., China and North Korea may be ready to return to six-party talks over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
  • The president defends his domestic surveillance program as a vital and necessary tool to fight terrorism. But Sen. Dick Durbin Dick Durbin (D-IL) echoed many in Congress, when he praised hearings looking into the administration's controversial policy.
  • Federal prosecutors might charge Eliot Spitzer under a relatively obscure 1910 law that was originally intended to combat forced prostitution. It has been used against such celebrities as Charlie Chaplin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chuck Berry and Jack Johnson.
  • South Korea is sending a special envoy to its communist northern neighbor to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program. And South Korea's president-elect Roh Moo-hyun is proposing a summit with the north's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.
  • As the president-elect enters the White House, he will have to prosecute two wars, ensure the nation isn't vulnerable to terrorist threats and continue to help the U.S. and world economies get back on their feet after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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