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In this game guest-hosted by HQ Words', Anna Roisman, contestants mash-up two initialisms: For example: if your tax returns are being audited by Kate McKinnon, you've sent them to the I-R-S-N-L.

Now that Texas Governor George W. Bush has become President-elect Bush, he has begun to assemble a cabinet and will arrive today in Washington for meetings this week with President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and members of Congress. To get a sense of opinion around the country, Liane speaks with Jim Camden, senior political reporter for the Spokane, Washington, Spokesman-Review; Mike Jacobs, editor of the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Herald; and Kate Nelson, a columnist and member of the editorial board at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tribune.

A committee that advises the state about upgrades to its unemployment system has identified some problems that still need to be fixed. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more from Wednesday’s meeting.

U.S. forces in Iraq conduct more than 20 raids and detain at least 60 men in an attempt to crush armed resistance and halt a recent spate of deadly attacks on American troops. Operation Sidewinder comes a day after two American soldiers were found dead in a region north of Baghdad. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye.

U.S. troops reduce their presence in Fallujah, a restive Iraqi town west of Baghdad. The action comes after Fallujah police warn that the U.S. presence at their station is putting local officers at risk. U.S. troops have come under repeated attack in Fallujah, considered a stronghold of Saddam Hussein loyalists. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

The Wolf administration has dropped a controversial contract provision that would have penalized health providers that had labor disputes. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more.

Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has released his second album, Poses. His sister Martha sings harmony on most of the tracks. The siblings perform selections from the album, and talk with Noah Adams about growing up in a musical family. Rufus' mother is Kate McGarrigle, who writes and sings with her sister Anna, and his father is singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III.

In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review.

A report released Tuesday calls on Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro to make improvements to the state’s Unemployment Compensation system. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more.

NPR's Michel Martin asks a panel of award-winning playwrights how diverse artists are challenging Broadway's landscape, and whether it matters.