All Things Considered

Authorities in Chile have exhumed the remains of Salvador Allende to discover whether the former president committed suicide — or was shot dead by others in a 1973 coup. Annie Murphy has the story.

Ratko Mladic has been extradited to The Hague to face trial. The Bosnian Serb general is accused of genocide and war crimes carried out by forces under his command during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

The Atlanta Thrashers are no more. It was announced Tuesday that the professional hockey team has been sold to a group in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Michele Norris speaks with Scott Burnside, national hockey writer for ESPN.com, about the sale.

Congress is gearing up for another show vote.

Last week, Democrats in the Senate forced Republicans to vote on a House GOP proposal that would make controversial changes to Medicare. On Tuesday, the Republicans who run the House are forcing Democrats to vote on raising the debt ceiling without addressing the deficit spending that drove up the debt.

That vote, too, is bound to fail — which is precisely what Republicans want.

President Obama announced his pick for a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Monday: Army Chief of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey. For more on the chairman's role and what Dempsey's selection means, Michele Norris speaks to Peter Feaver. He is a political science professor at Duke University and the author of several books on civil-military relations.