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Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton emerged as the winner of the Ohio and Texas presidential primaries, two needed for her to stay competitive in the race. Republican side, John McCain won all four primary contests last night, definitively earning the Republican nomination. Political strategists discuss Clinton's comeback.

Pianist Marian McPartland will celebrate her 90th birthday later this month. She continues to record her public radio show, Piano Jazz, and has released a new CD Twilight World. Liane Hansen recalls having the pleasure of her company 10 years ago at the piano in NPR's Studio 4A.

Mississippi gets its chance to choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Tuesday. Polls show Obama with a clear lead, but with delegates now the name of the game, the Clinton campaign is fighting for every one it can get.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive director and Chief Negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, about the decision by the actors' union to strike.

Some of today's best world music acts spring from the discovery of an obscure passion. For brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, leaders of the band Dengue Fever, it was 1960s Cambodian pop music.

Novelist and screenwriter Richard Price discusses his new novel, Lush Life, about the repercussions of a shooting on the Lower East side. Price has written extensively about the realities of inner city life; he is a writer for HBO's The Wire which ends a five-year run on Sunday.

Police in Bangkok, Thailand, arrest Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer, on Thursday. Doug Farah, an investigative journalist, talks to Melissa Block about the man accused of trading arms all over the world — often to both sides of the same conflict simultaneously.

The current race for the Democratic presidential nomination is anything but clear-cut — and trying to calculate the current popular vote or the delegate tallies can be a dizzying mathematical exercise.

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block get tips on how to pronounce the new Russian president's surname from Russian language teacher Lida Oukaderova of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Margaret Jones' memoir, Love and Consequences, recounts her early days selling drugs in South Central Los Angeles as well as her eventual escape to college and publishing. If it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. The story is just the latest in a string of frauds that have rocked the publishing industry.