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Slate contributor Ben Williams sums up what critics are saying about this weekend's major new film premieres. This week: Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, and the mystery thriller Wicker Park.

-- Ben Williams of Slate presents a weekly roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new major studio film premieres: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Suspect Zero and The Brown Bunny.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's major new movie premieres. This week: Friday Night Lights, Taxi and Raise Your Voice.

Slate contributor Ben Williams offers a weekly round-up of what film critics are saying about the weekend's major new movie releases, including The Forgotten, First Daughter and The Motorcycle Diaries.

Slate contributor Ben Williams reports on what film critics are saying about this weekend's major new movie releases: The Chronicles of Riddick, Garfield: The Movie and The Stepford Wives.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook talks to tennis coach Rick Macci about today's upset of Serena Williams by Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon. The 17-year-old Sharapova is the first Russian to win the women's Wimbledon title.

Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is recovering from a tracheotomy performed over the weekend as part of his treatment for thyroid cancer. Some cancer researchers say the surgery suggests he may have an aggressive form of the disease. Hear NPR's Patricia Neighmond.

William Jackson Harper ( The Good Place) and Yvonne Orji ( Insecure) visit past Academy Awards ceremonies in an audio quiz about iconic Oscar speeches.

http://66.225.205.104/DW20090627.mp3The Charlotte region's unemployment rate increased last month to 12 percent after a slight decline in April. WFAE's…

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with William Quandt, Middle East advisor during the Carter Administration and currently professor of international relations at the University of Virginia, and Samuel Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel and currently couselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about this week's emergency summit in Washington and the prospects for the middle east peace process.

Anne Williams reviews "The Light Pink Album," the latest CD by songwriter and performer Steven Allen Davis. The CD chronicles Davis' journey from Nashville, Tennessee to Boulder, Colorado. The record label is Core Entertainment Corp. Their address is 1719 West End Ave., 11th Floor West Tower, Nashville, TN 37203. (6:00) (IN S

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that former Maine senator William Cohen appeared today before a friendly Senate Armed Services Committee for hearings on his nomination to be defense secretary. Cohen, a Republican joining a Democratic administration, called for bipartisanship on defense issues. He said the United States should not be the policeman of the world, but that it should not shirk its responsibilities either. Cohen's nomination was then overwhelmingly approved by the Senate.

One hundred years ago today, William Jennings Bryan delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic Convention, persuading Democrats to take up the cause of a Silver and Gold currency (as opposed to a Gold-only one) and thereby ending the chances that the Populist Party (which had championed the Free Silver Movement) might break into the two-party national politics of the day.

recently in Japan...a 300-year old manuscript of Haiku. Reid compares the find to uncovering a book containing William Shakespeare's original plays.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on this week's fundraising controversies involving Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff, Maggie Williams. What's clear is how raising money pushes limits. It's a craft that works in loopholes, gray areas and blurry lines, making it difficult to determine if the letter of the law was broken.

Commerce Secretary William Daley has developed new guidelines for deciding which private sector representatives go on government trade missions. Critics have charged that former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown invited business executives to take the trips as payback for supporting the Democrats. NPR's Phillip Davis reports that Daley has announced that politics won't be a consideration in any future invitations.

Democrats have begun hammering President Bush and the GOP for not doing enough to keep America safe from terrorists. NPR's Juan Williams talks with NPR's Renee Montagne about the flurry of off-season political activity in Washington, D.C.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports that Los Angeles' Hollywood-style police chases may soon be curtailed. New Police Chief William Bratton proposes banning a majority of chases, citing an alarming rise in collisions resulting in injury, and sometimes the death of innocent bystanders.

President Bush nominates veteran investment banker William Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Donaldson's selection comes just a day after the president announced railroad executive John Snow as his choice for treasury secretary. NPR's Jack Speer and Scott Horsley report.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris; Senator Joseph Lieberman; Governor George W. Bush; Vice President Al Gore; former Secretary of State James Baker; Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Theodore Olson, attorney for Governor Bush, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.