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Folk music's Mike Seeger was an adventurer who wanted nothing more than to share his discoveries. He found overlooked musical treasures, polished them off a little and wondered at them. He sought out undiscovered or disappeared musicians in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina — including Dock Boggs. Seeger died Friday at 75.

We'll speak to lê thi diem thúy, author of “The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” the KPBS One Book selection for 2011.

When Congress approved the stimulus bill, it made a point of setting up a Web site called Recovery.gov to allow citizens to track all those billions in spending. But a dot-com version not run by the government also tracks the stimulus, and much of its information is more up to date.

In northern Pakistan, a deal is in the works to end the war in the Swat Valley, once a vacation destination now largely in the hands of the Taliban. The Taliban in the area unilaterally declared a ten-day ceasefire in the Swat Valley after the provincial government in northwest Pakistan and Islamist militants reached an agreement in which Islamic judicial practices will be enforced in part of the northwest.

Scientists from the National Geographic Society were hunting for dinosaur bones in the Tenere Desert in Niger. Instead, they found the graves and remains of people who lived there as long as 10,000 years ago.

The devastating earthquake in Haiti left thousands of people homeless and struggling to find shelter and food. Haitians have shown resilience and strength amidst destitution of unimaginable proportions. But one aspect of their lives has come under heavy criticism - their belief in Voodoo. Host Michel Martin talks to NPR's religion correspondent Barbara Bradley-Hagerty about the political and social influence of a religion often surrounded in mysticism and misinformation.

How does a person go from being a child soldier in the Congo to a decorated U.S. Marine? We speak to Tchicaya Missamou about his new book "In the Shadow of Freedom, A Heroic Journey to Manhood and Liberation."

The US Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal by Governor Schwarzenegger about whether federal judges can order California to release state prisoners. On this Legal Update, we'll also discuss a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrows Miranda rights.

KPBS Investigative Reporter Joanne Faryon traces your beef from the cattle ranches to the feed lots to your dinner plate.

California regulators are proposing to fine companies that wrongfully delay medical reviews in workers’ compensation cases. Injured workers complain the lack of penalties have allowed companies to ab