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California is lifting the statute of limitations on sexual molestation lawsuits. Lifting the statute for one year opens the way for new lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct by Roman Catholic priests and others over several decades. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

The Hours is a new film based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the writer Virginia Woolf and two women living in a later time who Woolf profoundly influences. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore star. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

Host Renee Montagne and Commentator John Feinstein talk about sports in 2002.

This week, researchers report they have genetically engineered a mouse to be abnormally anxious and aggressive. Mice like these could help drug companies find the next Valium or Prozac. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) about his reaction to President Bush's State of the Union address.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano just keeps on blowing off steam, and for some people the spectacle never gets old.

The police enforce a pregnant pause in Riley County, Kansas, and in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a sporting-goods store's advertisement reads like a cry for help.

In 1992, the Academy Award for best documentary short subject went to Educating Peter, a film by producer/director Gerardine Wurzburg that followed a young boy with Down Syndrome through third grade in a regular class in his Blacksburg, Va. elementary school. Now Wurzburg follows up with Graduating Peter -- view clips from both of the documentaries, and learn more about Wurzburg.

Gov. Gray Davis (D-CA) prepares to deliver his annual State of the State address. He's expected to address a California budget deficit estimated at $35 billion. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

A study suggests offenders who kill white victims in Maryland are more likely to be sentenced to death than those who kill non-whites. Departing Gov. Parris Glendening imposed a moratorium on the death penalty pending the study's outcome. Lisa Nurnberger of member station WAMU reports.

President Bush asks Congress to pass a $674-billion, 10-year legislative package of tax cuts and incentives he says will stimulate the economy. Some state legislators worry the White House proposal will hurt already ailing state budgets. NPR's Jim Zarroli and Chris Arnold report.

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that flu deaths are on the rise in the United States. Fatalities related to influenza increased from about 20,000 per year in the 1970s to about 36,000 per year in the 1990s. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

As Democrats keep working towards a scaled-back spending bill, the Duchess of Sussex urged them not to "compromise or negotiate" over a national paid family leave program.

In an effort to name the U.S. sports organization with the grandest tradition of losing, Commentator Frank Deford explains how the U.S. Olympic Committee continues to heap blunder on top of blunder, all the while hampering U.S. Olympic stature around the world.

The campaign for city auditor in Denver gets a little less heated after a Web-savvy campaign manager decides to let the opposition have a bit of online exposure.

The House passes a measure to provide additional unemployment benefits to jobless Americans. The bill offers another five months of federal unemployment benefits. The bill is on its way to President Bush, who had urged Congress to act quickly to extend benefits. NPR News reports.

Police in London have arrested six men of North African origin after finding traces of the deadly poison, ricin, at a North London address. As NPR's Richard Harris reports, ricin is lethal, relatively easy to manufacture, and is on the list of potential bioweapons that terrorists might employ.

In London, six men of North African origin are detained in connection with the discovery of a deadly toxin. Ricin, tiny amounts of which can kill an adult, has been linked to al Qaeda and to Iraq. Hear Sarah Lyall of The New York Times and NPR's Richard Harris.

An Air Midwest commuter plane carrying 19 passengers and two crew members crashes into a hangar on takeoff from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. Authorities say there are no survivors. Hear NPR's Carl Kassel and Jerry Orr, the airport's operations manager.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Jody Steinauer, founder of Medical Students For Choice, an organization seeking to reform medical school curricula to include training in abortion. She says only 46 percent of medical schools provide abortion training, despite a requirement to do so to receive accreditation. Steinauer is currently doing a fellowship in OB/GYN and Internal Medicine at U.C.S.F. and San Francisco General Hospital.

With U.S. troops closing in on his position in Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001, Osama bin Laden used a simple trick to escape. That's according to a report in the Washington Post, which says bin Laden passed the satellite phone the Americans were tracking to one of his guards. The guard then led U.S. troops one way while bin Laden went another. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Washington Post correspondent Peter Finn in Casablanca, Morocco.

Alan Cheuse reviews Dancer, a fictionalized biography of Rudolf Nureyev by Colum McCann. Dancer is published by Metropolitan Books.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports that with Republican control of the federal government, abortion opponents are looking forward to several victories this year. The first issue expected to pass both houses and to be signed into law is a ban on late abortions, which abortion opponents call "partial-birth" abortions. Other issues that will be debated include proposed laws to protect fetuses injured during violent crimes against pregnant women; a law barring adults from taking adolescents across state lines for abortions; and a law that would make it easier for hospitals and providers to decline to offer abortion services.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on Pakistani reaction to the new policy of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that requires visitors from two dozen Muslim nations to register with the I.N.S. or risk being deported. Many Pakistanis voice outrage at the new policy, and Pakistan's foreign minister is urging Washington to exempt Pakistani citizens.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on librarians' concerns that anti-terrorism laws will require them to violate their patrons' privacy. Librarians are holding workshops to learn about their responsibilities and options.