The Supreme Court's oldest member and its leading liberal is retiring. Justice John Paul Stevens informed President Barack Obama of his decision in a one-paragraph letter received at the White House this morning. The move gives Obama his second high court opening to fill, and Stevens says he hopes his successor will be confirmed "well in advance" of the court's next term.  We speak with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.

Author and Here and Now literary critic Steve Almond has had a long love affair with music - so deep that he calls himself a "drooling fanatic." He talks to us about what music has meant to him throughout his life, and what listening to music does to the listener, topics he explores in his book "Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life."

The remote nation of Kyrgyzstan is the only country is in the world with Russian and U.S. military bases and right now both major powers are watching closely, after Kyrgyzstan's president was forced to flee this week. Dozens were killed by security forces as the opposition government assumed power in the Central Asian nation. The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie joins us from Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.

The Qatari diplomat who set off a national terrorism scare with his responses to federal air marshals while in flight will be sent back home by his own government. The diplomat was flying from Washington D.C. to Denver to visit a confessed Al Qaeda member. We talk with New York Times National Security reporter Scott Shane.

Who could ever forget Carol Burnett as Scarlett O'Hara with a curtain rod sticking out of her drapery-made gown? Or her turn as the working class, Eunice, who exchanged hilarious barbs with her momma? And that Tarzan call still reverberates across television history. Those are some of the hallmarks from her incredibly popular, "The Carol Burnett Show." Carol Burnett shares these stories and more in her new memoir, "This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection."