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Despite filing for bankruptcy, Detroit is still on track to get a $450 million hockey arena - partially funded with public money. Host Michel Martin speaks with sportswriter Dave Zirin, who calls the move 'shameless,' and David Muller, a business reporter for the MLive Media Group in Michigan.

Federal officials say obesity rates among low-income preschoolers are declining in 19 states and U.S. territories. Rates are flat in 20 more states. The findings are cause for optimism, the officials say.

Music Mountain is this country's longest-running chamber music festival. This is their 84th season. Kate Remington talked with Nicholas Gordon, president…

Acoustic duo Sarah Lee Guthrie — daughter of Arlo Guthrie — and her husband Johnny Irion are out with a new album today, "Wassiac Way." They join us to talk about life and music.

Grocery store tomatoes are bred for yield and firmness, not for flavor. Prof. Harry Klee and a team of researchers at the University of Florida, Gainesville, believe they can make tomatoes better.

Former President George W. Bush underwent a heart procedure today, to clear a blockage discovered yesterday. We learn more about the procedure, which is fairly routine but not without risk.

Clowns are terrifying — that's pretty much a given. Even children, to whom they're supposed to appeal, are said to dislike them instinctively. Writer Linda McRobbie says darkness has always been a part of clowning.

Chinese scientists offer the first clear evidence that the H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted from human to human. A father, who became sick in March, passed the virus to his daughter. But the risk of transmission is quite low, and the virus still doesn't appear to pose a global threat.

The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Bank of America, alleging that the company lied to investors about the relative riskiness of the mortgage loans backing the residential mortgage-backed securities, made false statements after intentionally not performing proper due diligence and filled the securitization with a disproportionate amount of risky mortgages.

President Obama on Tuesday defended the U.S. government's surveillance program, telling NBC's Jay Leno that any tracking of phone numbers or email domestically was "connected to a terrorist attack."