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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has frequently left his country for overseas visits. Filipinos facing steep inflation and food shortages at home wonder how that jet-setting benefits them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy were celebrated with a wreath-laying in Albany today.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the presumptive winner of the Philippines presidential election. The son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is on track for a historic margin of victory.

Anthony Brooks traces the career path that brought Al Gore Jr., the son of a U.S. Senator from Tenessee, to his presidential canidacy. After college and a tour in Vietnam in the Army, he didn't want to enter his father's field of politics. But after a stint as a journalist, he changed his mind.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jonathan Bass, author of Blessed are the Peacemakers. The book examines the 1963 letter that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while in a Birmingham jail. The message was addressed to eight white religious leaders in Alabama and became a key element of the civil rights movement.

Host Bob Edwards talking with NPR's Debbie Elliot about a murder trial in Birmingham, Alabama, which began yesterday. Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr., is accused of a 1963 church bombing that killed 4 black girls.

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr. is over. The man was convicted of bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the trial and sentencing in this highly publicized case.

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan lists her favorite books of 2005, including novels by Mary Gaitskill and Kazuo Ishiguro, and memoirs by Joan Didion and J.R. Moehringer.

Host Scott Simon talks with Robert Bork, Jr., about what Senator Lott did wrong in trying to save his post as majority leader. Mr. Bork specializes in public relations crisis management.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the death of screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten. He and nine other writers and directors appeared before the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1947 to answer--or refuse to answer--questions about their involvement with the Communist Party.