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Japanese electronics maker Sharp says the TV with the 90-inch screen will cost nearly $11,000.

Michael Ondaatje returns with a seafaring coming-of-age story, while Lev Grossman delivers another literary fantasy and Ernest Cline makes his nerdy fiction debut. Journalist Ron Suskind casts Obama as a brilliant amateur and Amanda Foreman looks at Britain's role in the Civil War.

Some Egyptians fear the military is going to further "bamboozle the democratic process," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports. The concern: Generals will cite Mubarak's declining health — or death if that happens — as a reason to put off reforms.

Closing arguments will begin Thursday in the trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

He's reportedly still inside Ecuador's embassy in London, where he showed up Tuesday and asked for political asylum.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon attracted much attention yesterday when he was called to Capitol Hill to explain how he lost billions of dollars in risky financial bets, but as The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper points out, Congress borrowed almost $1 billion just during the hearing.

As the the Supreme Court mulls over the constitutionality of President Obama's health care overhaul, Jeffrey H. Anderson of The Weekly Standard says too much taxpayer money is spent to publicize the law.

While the country awaits the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act, The New Republic's Alec MacGillis says the biggest problem with the law isn't the individual mandate, but simply that people don't know about it.

A cargo ship carrying four huge cranes is set to squeeze under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Washington, D.C., and the Key Bridge outside Baltimore. Both spans have to close temporarily this afternoon as it passes under.

Research got heated - and sticky - today at an in-house Pie Contest where NPR staff submitted sweet and savory treats representing regions across the country for upcoming Pie Week coverage from Morning Editionand The Salt.