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Linda talks to Rick Karr of NPR News about a ruling today by a federal judge against MP3.com, in a lawsuit by Universal Music Group. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff says a message must be sent to Internet companies to deter copyright infringement. He awarded Universal $25, 000 per CD copied by MP3.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that executives from both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone faced harsh questioning on Capitol Hill today. Members of Congress wanted to know why the companies were slow to warn the public about a growing problem with defective tires and why they didn't inform the U.S. government about an overseas recall. U.S. safety regulators were also criticized for not catching the problem earlier. The defective tires are now blamed for 88 deaths and hundred of injuries in the U.S.

Linda talks with Richard Galpin, a reporter for the BBC in Jakarta, Indonesia, about the evacuation of U.N. workers from West Timor after thousands of rioters stormed the office, killing at least three workers. Galpin says the rioters were angry about the death of an Indonesian militia leader yesterday.

The twelve men a capella group called Chanticleer was formed in San Francisco 20 years ago. Their latest CD Magnificat features compositions from the middle ages that are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Noah speaks with Chanticleer's musical director Joseph Jennings and alto Philip Wilder about the CD.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the activity in Congress. Political scuffles between the White House and Congress are expected to crop up in the weeks before Election Day.

NPR's Renee Montagne pays a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where the a paleontological dig is taking place. The pits once supplied Native Americans and local settlers with sealant and fuel, and in the late 1800's they began to yield the bones of ancient beasts.

NPR's Rick Karr reports from New York on a federal judge's damage award in the case that a record label brought against MP3.com. Judge Jed Rakoff ruled MP3.com services infringed on Universal Music Group's copyrights by allowing MP3 users to listen to CD's they own from any computer with an internet connection. The damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports committee members from both the House and Senate questioned Bridgestone-Firestone and Ford Motor Company executives on Capitol Hill yesterday about the recall of more than 6 and a half million tires. Legislators are promising more hearings in the future. The questions centered upon how both companies handled the recall, and why it took so long for officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a recall.

The debate over whether the Anasazi ancestors of today's Pueblo people were cannibals has gone on for forty years. John Nielsen reports that new evidence from a long hidden Anasazi Site called Cowboy Wash near Sleeping Ute Mountain in Colorado has added new spice to the debate. The research is published in this week's edition of the science journal Nature.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jake Moreland, of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office about the recent violence in West Timor.