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In a press conference Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards announced that he will continue his bid for the nomination, despite the news that his wife's cancer has relapsed.

The FBI is forming relationships with Muslim Americans to combat homegrown terrorism. John Miller, assistant director of public affairs for the FBI, and Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali discuss their partnership against terrorism.

It's the day after Super Tuesday, and while things are settling on the GOP side with Sen. John McCain clearly ahead of his rivals, the lead candidate of the Democratic contest remains unclear. Meanwhile, the New Mexico caucuses remain too close to call.

Now that John Edwards has admitted to an extramarital affair, what will happen to his political career given it has been built on loyalty to his family? Some say that the affair has effectively closed the door on elective office, at least in the short term.

With the primary campaign behind him, Barack Obama must now choose a running mate, reach out to Hillary Clinton's supporters and unify his party. All that while keeping one eye on John McCain. Political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times discuss the week in politics.

In popstrological terms, Britney Spears is a "daughter" of Olivia Newton-John, born under the 1981 hit song "Let's Get Physical." Ian Van Tuyl's Popstrology: The Art and Science of Reading the Popstars shows how pop music's powerful forces affect us all from the day we're born.

The "thumbs up" maven discusses the films he tends to watch over and over, from The Searchers to Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Many of those favorites are included in Ebert's new book, The Great Movies II.

Actor and singer Tab Hunter's new book, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, reveals his secret status as a homosexual in Hollywood. Hunter was a teen heartthrob in the 1950s and 1960s, starring in over 50 films including Damn Yankees, That Kind of Woman, and more recently, John Waters' Polyester.

The new anthology Mexico, A Traveler's Literary Companion takes us deep inside the imagination of a country through its fiction. Many of the stories are translated to English for the first time. Editor and translator C.M. Mayo tells John Ydstie about the book.

In 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy asked the nation to disregard his religion; in 2000, George W. Bush stated Jesus was his favorite philosopher. How did faith become such an important criterion for the presidency? Religion professor and evangelical newspaper columnist Randall Balmer explains.

John Ridley's comic-book series The American Way has just been collected into a graphic novel; it takes place in 1961, when the government has created a team of super-heroes to battle foreign super-villains. But it's all just a show created to pacify the public. Ridley previously wrote the screenplay for Three Kings and the novel A Conversation with the Mann.

Specialist in memory and language disorders, DR. BARRY GORDON. Gordon's book "Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Everyday Life" (Mastermedia Ltd. The book can be ordered by calling 1-800-334-8232) looks at recognition, recall, memory blocks and the effects of drugs. The book also gives tips to increasing memory recall and dispels some common myths about the brain and memory. GORDON is a behavior neurologist, cognitive neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at Johns Hopkins University. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

more of the DON BYRON concert. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .an exclusive Fresh air concert with DON BYRON and his "Bug Orchestra." Recently they played live at the WHYY forum theatre, music from their latest recording. It's called "Bug Music" and includes tunes by the Raymond Scott Quintette, John Kirby and his orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. That's coming up on today's Fresh Air.

E.FULLER TORREY, M.D., a research psychiatrist at the Neuroscience Center of the National Institute of Mental Health and has come out with a new book, "Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Calling the disease a human tragedy and major social problem, Torrey examines the dangers of neglecting the mentally ill and provides political and economic approaches necessary for change. Torrey is the author of 12 books in all, including the best-selling book "Surviving Schizophrenia." 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Even the seriously UNDER- appreciated Presidents are remembered somewhere in stone. On this Presidents' Day, we guide listeners to memorials & markers across the land for Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B Hayes, John Tyler, James Buchanan, William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, Chester A. Arthur, Gerald Ford, William Howard Taft and the forgotten Samuel Huntington -- who served as President between the Revolutionary War and the constitution's establishment. We also hear from Bart Simpson and the group "They Might Be Giants." (12:30) ((ST

Daniel talks with John M. Barry, the author of "The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America" (Simon & Schuster). The 1927 flood - which stretched from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans - left more than one-thousand people dead and 900-thousand people homeless. Throughout the flood plain there were camps set up to house the homeless - and conditions in these camps were bad. The worst camp was in Greenville, Mississippi - where blacks, says Barry, were essentially slave labor: They were not paid. They were not allowed to leave. Living conditions were poor.

NPR's John Burnett reports on how religion has fared under the Clinton Administration. The issue of religious liberty has received little attention during the presidential campaign. But it turns out that by signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ordering guidelines for religious expression in public schools and easing certain rules limiting religious businesses, President Clinton has earned praise from conservative and liberal religious leaders alike. But on social issues such as abortion and homosexual rights, some conservative Christian groups still give the President a failing grade. For them, even Republican candidate Bob Dole has not spoken out strongly enough.

NPR's Noah Adams speaks with Paul Hendrickson, a feature writer for The Washington Post and author of the book The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. Robert McNamara was a believer in control accounting... a mathematical way to analyze and evaluate systems...and was plucked from success at the Ford Motor Company to become President John Kennedy's Secretary of Defense. His unique approach to management guided the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG has done a computer generated summary of a large number of republican convention speeches delivered this week. The software analyzes the frequency of key words and recurring themes. It produced a five sentence compressed paragraph. Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews "Tin Cup" starring Kevin Costner.

Since losing his bid to become the Republican party candidate for president last year, Arizona Senator John McCain has pushed ahead with his cry for campaign finance reform. McCain and Democrat Russell Feingold have been promised a March Senate debate on their campaign finance reform bill by Majority Leader Trent Lott. Lott has also promised to discourage filibusters of the bill. Filibusters killed the bill in the last two congressional sessions. Robert talks with the Arizona Senator about what it will take to win the battle this time.