Tens of Thousands of Shiites gather in the streets of the Shiite-dominated Sadr City slum in Baghdad for a massive anti-American, anti-Israel rally.

Selling everything from cigarettes to baby formula, Hezbollah operatives are making millions on the black market and sending the cash back home... to an organization the U.S. considers "the A-team of terrorism."

Under fire for anti-Semitic slurs and charges of drunk driving, everyone's talking about the pious Mel Gibson's fall from grace... including the best in late night TV.

The sounds of violin strings could be heard on the airwaves in the first ever radio broadcast transmitted from Marshfield, Massachusetts on Christmas Eve, 1906.

And, another anniversary... 100 years ago Willis H. Carrier got the patent for the air conditioner.

Eliza Minot joins us to discuss her new novel.