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A grass-roots organization lobbies Congress to provide funding for tuberculosis treatments around the world. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

In Yosemite National Park this holiday season, all the evergreens are staying outdoors. The park has deemed real Christmas trees and garlands to be fire hazards. Robert Siegel talks with Ed McCann, co-author of Faux Flowers and a contributor to Country Living Magazine, about this year's decorations at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

Talking about racial relations in America can often be a minefield of misunderstanding. But for comedians, it can be a goldmine -- an endless source of great material. In the first of a three-part series, co-host Michele Norris talks with Margaret Cho. Hear an extended version of Cho's interview, and learn more about the series.

NPR's Susan Stamberg continues her Tuesday series on peace by talking to Yoko Ono about her lifelong efforts to promote peace. As a little girl during World War Two, Ono spent time in Tokyo bomb shelters during Allied air raids. Today, she continues the peace activism that she and her late husband, John Lennon, were involved in during his lifetime. This year, Ono started a new prize called the Lennon-Oko Grant for Peace an award for artists who live in areas where there's conflict.

In India, the Hindu nationalist-led BJP government plans to rewrite school textbooks, leaving out the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic. Critics say the omission is one of a dozen examples of the government trying to recast the country's history in a more harmonious, Hindu-flavored light. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

Black & Decker is moving one of it factories out of a small Maryland town to Mexico, and taking the community's best-paying jobs with it. Like many laid-off manufacturing workers, the citizens of Easton, Maryland will find it tough to find new jobs that pay as much. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

President Bush meets with Brazil's leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House. Market reform talks are on the table with the key South American trading partner. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Spain's military sends reinforcements to the country's northwest coast to help clean up oil from the sunken tanker Prestige. Despite assurances by the Spanish government that the oil would freeze in the hull, a research sub confirms the oil is streaming out. Hear Jerome Socolovsky.

A Lancet medical journal report finds that human-caused climate change is worsening human health in just about every measurable way. It calls for more urgent action from world leaders.

Archaeologists believe they may have identified the first people in the Western Hemisphere who knew how to write. The Olmec people, who lived in what is now southern Mexico, left behind the carving of a single bird that researchers say may be a clue to an entire language. NPR's Eric Niiler reports.

At a hundredth birthday party for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond, fellow Republican Trent Lott made a statement some believed to be in support of the segregationist and racist policies Thurmond once supported. Now Lott, the incoming Senate Majority leader, is trying to make amends. NPR's David Welna reports.

Two students from an inner city school in New Jersey win a $100,000 scholarship in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. NPR's Juan Williams talks with national science fair team winners Juliet Girard and Roshan Prabhu about their research into the genetic mapping of rice to increase yields.

President Bush announces his choice for treasury secretary -- John Snow, chairman of CSX Transportation. Snow replaces outgoing Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

New Labor Dept statistics released this week reveal that while unemployment among whites remained relatively constant rising from 5.1% to 5.2 percent, the rate for blacks rose even further, from 9.8 percent to percent.

In the tropical jungle outside Saigon, commentator Robert Franklin visited the Cao-Dai, a syncretic religious group that pulls from Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Judaism and Christianity. Their fantastic, beautiful and ornate compound is in the middle of people living in extreme poverty, and it reminds Franklin that that religions may be better at dispensing charity than demonstrating justice.

This year's final Senate election takes place in Louisiana, where voters must decide whether to award Democrat Mary Landrieu another term, or elect Republican challenger Suzanne Terrell. It's a tight race and President Bush has campaigned heavily for Terrell. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

In an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer last night, singer Whitney Houston said that she was digitally altered to look less thin during a Michael Jackson tribute concert. For years, tabloids have hounded Houston for alleged drug used and supposed weight disorders. Jacki Lyden explores with Kelly Port, a visual effects supervisor for Digital Domain, a production company in Venice, Calif., the different ways her image could have been manipulated.

The Venezuelan military seizes an oil tanker after it was taken over by its crew as part of a general strike protesting the government of President Hugo Chavez. Thousands of workers are demanding new presidential elections. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to reporter Phil Gunson.

United Nations weapons inspectors wrap up their first week of inspections. They visited a nuclear power facility and a site that once produced chemical and biological agents. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

During an incredibly emotional Wednesday morning in court, victims' families watched as the confessed Parkland shooter changed his plea in the capital case to guilty of all 34 charges.

Roone Arledge, who pioneered telecasting techniques such as instant replay and slow-motion, has died in New York at 71. Arledge made his mark in sports telecasting, then brought modern techniques to the coverage of hard news at ABC Television. Lynn Neary talks to Columbia University journalism professor Dick Wald, formerly of ABC News.

United Air Lines edges closer to bankruptcy after federal regulators refuse a request for loan guarantees. United officials assure ticketholders flights will continue, but the company's cash is dwindling. It now faces nearly $1 billion in debt payments. Hear from NPR's Jim Zarroli, NPR's Jacki Lyden and aviation authority Darryl Jenkins.

The liberal arts school said it's dropping legacy admissions to both create a fairer system and to promote diversity. The practice has been criticized for advantaging students from wealthier families.

The Manhattan District Attorney recommends the convictions of five young men accused of raping a Central Park jogger in 1990 be thrown out. The recommendation comes after DNA tests suggest another man committed the crime. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.

Citing "weaknesses" and "discrepancies" in confessions, Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau seeks to nullify several convictions in the Central Park jogger case. Five black and Hispanic teenagers served prison terms for beating and raping a white female jogger in 1989. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.