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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.

President Bush for the first time says he is ultimately responsible for a now-discredited claim about Iraq's attempts to purchase uranium from Africa that appeared in his January State of the Union address. In the wide-ranging news conference, Bush also defends his economic policy and rejects the idea of same-sex marriages. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

Students are returning back for a new school year in Indiana. High inflation is making it difficult for low-income families to purchase school supplies.

The city of Boston wants the majority of new car purchases to be electric by 2050. That means it'll need more chargers too.

President Bush announced a $250 billion plan Tuesday in which the government will buy shares in the nation's banks. He vows that a massive purchase of stock in nine major U.S. banks will benefit the economy "by stabilizing the financial system." The president said the steps are not intended to take over the free market.