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On Jan. 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi made history as the first female speaker of the House. She talks with Deborah Amos about her new book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. Pelosi comes from a devoutly Democratic family, and she charts her journey from stay-at-home mom to politician.

The author talks about her blockbuster novel, The Lovely Bones, which features a surprising device: its main character, a young girl who has been murdered, narrates the book from the afterlife. Sebold's book is the basis for a new film by director Peter Jackson.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.

Shawn Fritz plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Record snow in parts of the Northeast left thousands without power.

The opening of an art exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery showing more than 1,300 portraits of U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq brings together artists and families of the dead.

The American Red Cross is helping displaced residents, and Syracuse Fire Department Investigators are still looking into the cause of the fire.

Fireworks displays are lined up over the next few days to celebrate the Fourth of July in Onondaga County.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. is not for the squeamish. Founded in 1862, the museum displays everything from a large human hairball to skull fragments from Abraham Lincoln.

Musk has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in recent years, largely due to Tesla stock plummeting.