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Los Angeles restaurateur Joe Pytka went to a charity auction in Italy and doled out $35,000. His purchase: a huge white truffle. It's believed to be the largest sum ever paid for such a fungus. Robert Siegel interviews chef Alain Giraud, who works at Pytka's West Hollywood restaurant, Bastide, about what he'll do with the truffle.

NPR's Howard Berkes and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen discuss the dilemma of William Gooch of South Holland, Illinois. He got lucky enough to win a lottery to purchase hard-to-get baseball tickets. He wonders whether it's right to sell a ticket to his friend for more than face value.

Following overnight negotiations, the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. met Tuesday afternoon and approved Murdoch's bid to purchase Dow Jones & Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal. The deal is valued at $5 billion.

The European Union is cracking down on airlines. Regulators have had enough of operators who advertise one price for tickets purchased online, and then charge a different price. EU investigators examined almost 450 European airline and ticketing Web sites.

While Harry Potter has grown to become a huge a marketing event, the book series is still, at its heart, a literary event. Critic-at-large John Powers considers kids today lucky to have that experience. He compares it to his experiences purchasing and reading the Hardy Boys mysteries as a child.

which will hear a constitutional challenge to the Brady Gun Control Law. The Brady Law requires a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns, so gun sellers can do a background check on potential buyers. The challenge is based on states rights arguments, namely, that the law usurps the rights of states and municipalities by requiring them to carry out a federal mandate.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone talks with Noah Adams about Turner Broadcasting and Time-Warner. According to the media giant, federal regulators have agreed to its 7.5-Billion-dollar purchase of Ted Turner's cable empire. With the addition of the Turner Broadcasting System, Time-Warner would leap over Disney/ABC to become the biggest media conglomerate in the world. Federal Trade Commissioners are expected to take a final vote on the deal on Friday.

A tax watchdog group seeks to change a tax law that gives small business owners a tax break on the purchase of SUVs and light trucks. The vehicles can be depreciated more quickly than cars for tax purposes. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Aileen Roder of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

The White House releases an eight-page section of a larger document outlining the basis for a now-discredited claim that Saddam Hussein's regime sought to purchase uranium from Africa in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Tom Gjelten.

CIA Director George Tenet faces tough questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee over the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq. Last Friday, Tenet took responsibility for an erroneous claim in President Bush's State of the Union address that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from Africa. Hear NPR's David Welna.