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As part of our Crossing the Divide series, Melissa Block brings together the far left and the far right for a conversation with members of Congress Carol Shea-Porter and Bill Sali. Shea-Porter is a liberal Democrat from New Hampshire. Sali is a conservative Republican from Idaho.

This week: Uruguay's choral music, a Martin Luther King, Jr. misquote, and a huge box office haul.

WBGO Morning Jazz host Gary Walker shares his favorite jazz recordings of 2007. Among the artists he singles out: Michael Brecker, Abbey Lincoln, Maria Schneider and Ron Carter.

Leaders geared up to meet in Annapolis, Md., for a Mideast peace conference, the Lebanese president left office with no successor elected and scientists discovered a way to turn skin cells into embryonic stem cells.

What was really behind Friday's abrupt departure of CIA Director Porter Goss? Walter Pincus of The Washington Post tells Howard Berkes that the housecleaning at the CIA went beyond what President Bush wanted.

Denny Doherty, a member of the 1960s folk-rock group The Mamas and the Papas, died Friday at 66. The Mamas and the Papas was one of the first groups to feature male and female singers equally.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says he does not think of himself as a Hispanic politician. Instead, he considers himself a politician, who happens to be Hispanic.

Scientists and government officials from 113 countries issue a new report on climate change that blames humans for rising global temperatures. The report predicts changes in temperature, precipitation patterns and sea level over the next 100 years.

The biggest tech acquisition ever is set to close any day now.

As a debate over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys unfolds, White House officials may be subpoenaed by Congress, and more e-mail related to the case is likely to be made public.