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World Cafe features daily interviews and live in-studio performances from seasoned music veterans and new sensations, in genres ranging from rock to blues to folk to alternative country and beyond. From NPR station WXPN, host David Dye chooses his favorite albums of 2006.

It's the holiday season, so it's no surprise that employees at Lickety Split Chocolate are hard at work. But this is no ordinary candy company. The CEO is 15 years old, and the other employees are even younger. But like any good entrepreneurs, these kids -- all from the Navajo tribe -- know a good business idea when they see it.

Since the crisis in Darfur erupted three years ago, Sudanese refugees have poured across the border seeking shelter in neighboring Chad. Now, the conflict has followed them, with more attacks by Arab Janjaweed militiamen.

C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb has written an open letter to Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi requesting that she grant television cameras more access to the House chamber. Lamb discusses his request with Neal Conan.

The Senate may act today to outlaw the use of deception to obtain people's telephone records without their consent. The practice, known as "pretexting," came out of the shadows when contractors working for Hewlett-Packard impersonated board members and journalists to obtain personal information.

As U.S. leaders struggle to communicate with people in the Middle East, they might look to musician Lionel Richie for inspiration. In the current issue of GQ magazine, writer Andrew Corsello reports that Richie has become a musical phenomenon in the Arab world. Host Mike Pesca speaks with him about Richie's appeal in that region.

China has just 76 traditional opera troupes today, compared to 2,000 four decades ago. But it has an unlikely new champion: a Briton who has devoted more than a decade to mastering Beijing opera and bringing it to new audiences.

Last year, attorney and Slate contributor Capt. Phil Carter re-enlisted in the Army because he wanted to go to Iraq. While there, he trained Iraqi police. Now that he's back, he's had time to think about what he learned.

Trudy Pitts and Bill Carney have been together for half a century. They say they've been so close for so long that their relationship allows them to speak the private language of music.

A rash of organized almond thievery has baffled police and almond growers in California's Central Valley. Police are finally making inroads into cracking the agricultural crime ring suspected in the thefts.