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Sarah Bardeen reviews the latest release from the Canadian pop/punk band The Snitches, called Star Witness. (3:45) (NOTE: The Snitches Star Witness. is on Oh!Tonito Records. Catalogue #: Oh!0002.)

Colin Powell died at age 84 on Monday. He spent much of his life in the military and served in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations.

The state of Virginia will have first chance to try sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17. U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft orders Muhammad transferred to Prince William County, Va. Malvo will also face trial in Virginia, where his youth would not disqualify him from a possible death sentence. NPR's News reports.

Chris Baty believes everybody has a novel within them. Some people simply still need to get it down on paper. He's organized National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short, to try to encourage that. John Ydstie talks with Chris Baty about NaNoWriMo.

Grammy-winner Eminem flexes his acting muscles in the new movie 8 Mile. His character may seem familiar: the movie is set in Eminem's native Detroit and he plays a struggling rap musician. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

Catholic bishops are gathering in Washington, D.C., to vote on a policy on priests who sexually abuse children. The latest draft includes revisions by the Vatican. Survivors of abuse say the revisions will make it harder for the bishops to fight abuse. Commentator Hugh Burns, a Catholic priest, says bishops who assigned pedophilic priests to their parishes should be held just as responsible for sexual abuse as the priests themselves.

NPR's Joshua Levs talks with Robert Siegel about ballistics tests on a bullet that killed an Atlanta liquor store worker in September. Police say the markings on the bullet indicate they were fired by the same gun used by the sniper suspects in a Montgomery, Ala., shooting.

Advocates have called for the court or Congress to reform the qualified immunity doctrine, the controversial legal defense that protects police from liability when accused of misconduct.

Oil is flowing again through the Trans-Alaska pipeline after engineers worked round the clock to make critical repairs following last weekend's earthquake. NPR's John Nielsen reports on the massive inspection and repair effort that showed the pipeline survived the shocks without major damage.