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- To mark this year's awards ceremony by the group, Human Rights Watch, Jacki speaks with human rights monitors from Malaysia and Nigeria, who describe the conditions in their respective countries and the dangers that go with being a human rights monitor.

- In Washington today, the families of the victims of TWA Flight 800 met with federal investigators. NPR's Barbara Bradley speaks with the families, whose meeting came just as investigators announced they are narrowing down the reasons behind the mysterious crash.

Microsoft joined a host of major high-tech companies in warning that profits will disappoint due to a slowdown in computer demand. It was Microsoft's first profit warning in a decade. The news helped send stocks sharply lower. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Although legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday, he's still playing and teaching like a much younger man.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Austin, Texas on George W. Bush's first full day as president elect. He and his aides are working to assemble a cabinet and a White House staff.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on Vice-President Al Gore's close call with the Oval Office. We take a long view of the campaign, and what pivotal moments may have cost Gore the presidency.

When the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids they made sure they pointed them precisely toward the north. This week, in Nature magazine, a scientist describes how she thinks they did it. NPR's Richard Harris has the story.

Broward County, Florida has decided to recount the ballots from last week's presidential election by hand, reversing an earlier position against such a recount. Robert talks to NPR's David Welna who is in Broward County.

Delta Air Lines has said it will use more AI in ticket pricing, which means you could be paying more or less for your next plane ride. Some lawmakers are concerned about fairness.

Using figures that were made for miniature train sets, a former Las Vegas crime reporter is finding big success creating and selling tiny imaginary crime scenes. Abigail Goldman's macabre, and sometimes funny, "Die-O-Ramas" are selling out before she's even completed them.

Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

The genre-bending star talks her new album Motomami, expressing sexuality in music and her global approach to pop.

Literary Santa delivers his list of favorite fiction, nonfiction and poetry — a box of the best books from 2010 that he'd like to bring to your house on a snowy morning.

After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

People who lost their family and homes in the surprise incursion into Israel by Hamas reckon with the aftermath.

The Federal Trade commission sued Amazon this week, accusing it of monopolistic practices. This episode from our archive investigates how the Amazon Marketplace operates, who wins and who loses.

Fetal personhood made headlines recently when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are "extrauterine children." The ruling raised questions across the country about fetal personhood.

Noel King talks to David Whelan, brother of Paul Whelan, who has been detained in Russia on charges of spying. Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited Whelan in Russian detention.

Three of the leading Democratic 2020 candidates visited the culinary workers union in Las Vegas this week. It's a testament to the group's political clout in Nevada.

Pennsylvania residents who live near the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio say they aren't getting the attention and recovery help that they should.

If you want to know anything about America's greatest city, you've got to be willing to get grimy, says critic Maureen Corrigan. Two new books about New York — a novel and a narrative history — do more than put up with filth, they positively wallow in it.

Derrick Johnson, who is expected to speak Monday night at the DNC, says young Black voters in particular are more excited about the election with Vice President Harris as the nominee.

When the U.S. launched airstrikes over the past week in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the idea was to send a message to another country: Iran.

The House version of Trump's budget bill, which is now before the Senate, includes a provision that would ban state regulation of AI or 10 years. Republicans are divided over the provision.