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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Rich Storrs from Marlborough, Conn.

NPR's Juana Summers plays the puzzle with Brian Yellen of Amherst, Mass., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Debbie Elliott plays the puzzle with winner Wes Rouher-Willoughby from Versailles, Ky., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Last year, Michigan became the third state to ban the use of affirmative action in the public arena. Is it time to end it across the country? A panel of experts debates in the latest in the Intelligence Squared U.S. series.

The governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province survived a car bomb attack Sunday. Three people in the governor's convoy were killed. Also Sunday, the new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan said that he plans to double the number of coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, in response to increased violence in the area.

National Hurricane Center forecasters release new predictions for the 2006 hurricane season, dropping the number of expected hurricanes from estimates made in May. The new numbers are only slightly lower, with three to four major hurricanes predicted instead of four to six.

The 69-year-old cabinet member asked to be tested after learning he may have been exposed to the virus and he is not experiencing symptoms.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle with Marion Yoder from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Republican Sen. John Warner says he will retire after more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate, concluding his fifth term in 2009. In a brief news conference, he thanked his state for granting him a have "a magnificent and very rewarding career."

Listener David Kirkpatrick plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Adrian Florido.