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Kayla Rosenfeld from Hawaii Public Radio reports on a science program in which middle-school students to do field research. This year it's based in Hawaii, where they're doing everything from tracking endangered species to chasing hot lava from volcanoes.

Sam Eaton of member station KUOW reports on a new kind of pawn shop. In suburban Seattle, the upscale 'Yuppie Pawn Shop' stocks Rolex watches, fine art and even a Mercedes.

Dan Olsen of Minnesota Public Radio reports from St. Paul on the life and political career of Harold Stassen. The former Republican Governor, who died Sunday, ran for president nine times but never won national office. Although Stassen was considered one of the country's most promising politicians when he was first elected Governor of Minnesota, his name gradually became associated with electoral futility.

Host Bob Edwards describes fighting that broke out over the release of Nike's new athletic shoe -- the gray Retro Air Jordan Eleven.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the outbreak of fighting on the Albania-Macedonia border. The international community is concerned that fighting between Ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Macedonian armed forces will spread into Kosovo.

This month, NPR News will examine the struggle to provide drugs to HIV infected people around the world. In today's report, NPR's Richard Knox takes a look at the influence of health care activists on pharmaceutical companies.

Commentator Susan Parker describes a traumatic event that changed her life and allowed her to see a place she probably would have missed otherwise.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about tax-cut proposals before the Congress. Several plans have been proposed by Republicans and Democrats, but President Bush's has the spotlight.

Host Bob Edwards describes the christening of the new aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Morning Edition sports commentator John Feinstein. They discuss the winding-down of the regular college basketball season, and the wind-UP of the play-offs.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jonathan Bass, author of Blessed are the Peacemakers. The book examines the 1963 letter that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while in a Birmingham jail. The message was addressed to eight white religious leaders in Alabama and became a key element of the civil rights movement.

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, reviews the new French film The Taste of Others.

The Russian Foreign Ministry today lodged a formal protest against the United States in response to the report of the tunnel under the Soviet Embassy. But it was not so many years ago that the United States was protesting the discovery of listening devices in the new American Embassy in Moscow. NPR's Tom Gjelten looks back on a tradition of eavesdropping that seems to have survived the Cold War.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Pretoria, South Africa on the opening day of a lawsuit that pits the global drug industry against the South African government. Over 36 drug companies are challenging a law that allows the government to import the cheapest medicine from the cheapest source. The companies say the law ignores their patent rights. The government says the law is necessary in order to afford desperately needed AIDS drugs.

Robert Siegel talks to Lowell Bergman, a reporter for the New York Times, who broke a story this weekend that revealed a tunnel underneath the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., that was used by the FBI and the National Security Agency to monitor Russian embassy activity. Lowell Bergman is also a reporter for the PBS program Frontline and a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

More than 100 countries have pledged to reverse the loss of crucial forestland needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Protests continue in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, following the removal of the country's prime minister by military leaders.

In Latino communities across the U.S., bright orange marigolds have become an important flower this time of year, because of the special role they play in Day of the Dead celebrations.

Igor Kirillov, the Soviet newscaster who anchored the USSR's main evening news for three decades, has died at age 89.

Justices heard arguments in a case testing whether an elected community college board can censure one of its members.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with head of the Environmental Protection Agency Michael Regan about the administration's newly announced plans at the COP26 climate conference to curb methane emissions.

A look at the human toll of "frictionless" app delivery in New York City, where the ranks of delivery workers have swelled during the pandemic.

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep speaks with George Parker, Financial Times political editor, about the potential economic impact of the latest Brexit developments.

Little Amal, a 9-year-old Syrian refugee puppet, has been walking across Europe to raise visibility and empathy for the plight of refugees. Theater director Amir Nizar Zuabi spoke with TED Radio Hour.

A new review by a task force school officials will assemble “is critical to ensure the policy advances the university’s interests while protecting academic freedom.”