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Animator Nick Park is the creative genius behind the new film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. It's the feature-film debut for characters beloved in previous short features... a brainy inventor and his flop-eared best friend.

Officials in Guatemala are considering declaring a village buried under a mudslide a mass gravesite. As many as 1,400 people lived in the village. Rains from Hurricane Stan have increased the storm's death toll in Mexico and Central America.

Uproar among many conservatives over President Bush's choice of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court adds to the long list of political troubles dogging the Republican Party. The Iraq war, gas prices, hurricanes and ethics scandals are making Republicans worried about next year's elections.

Howard Shore follows up his Oscar-winning soundtrack to Lord of the Rings with a more complex take on the good vs. evil battle in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. The composer discusses his work with Liane Hansen.

The Labor Department's unemployment report for September shows a smaller than expected number of job losses from Hurricane Katrina. Even so, unemployment rises to 5.1 percent. But analysts say numbers from October will give a better indication of Katrina's impact on the job market.

Faced with a need for massive rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, President Bush has refused to estimate how much the effort might cost -- or to raise taxes to pay for it. To discuss the president's economic policy, we speak with columnist Paul Krugman and Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation.

The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency meets Thursday in Vienna to consider Iran's nuclear activities. The board is considering a draft resolution offered by Britain, France and Germany that calls on the IAEA to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council. Linda Wertheimer talks to Rob Gifford.

NPR's David Welna is at the Capitol with a snapshot of reaction from several members of Congress to Tuesday's State of the Union message by President Bush. Some of his supporters express complaints, while the debate over Iraq has escalated.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller, jailed for refusing to reveal her sources, has been released. She has agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s new PBS miniseries African American Lives takes an in-depth look at his own family tree, along with the histories of such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Mae Jemison and Bishop T.D. Jakes. He talks to Robert Siegel with about the project.