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One year after the world's largest gunmaker, Smith & Wesson, agreed to change the way it markets and distributes firearms, the gun manufacturer is facing financial problems. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

American drug companies say they are making AIDS drugs more affordable for African countries. This week there is word the government may also do more to help: the Bush administration is said to be considering giving up to $2 billion to African countries to battle the disease. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR Health Correspondent Richard Knox.

In the Netflix hit series Squid Game, cash-strapped players compete in deadly children's games for money. NPR's podcast, The Indicator, looks at what the show reveals about debt and decision making.

A Harvard-NPR poll finds American Indians and Alaska Natives were hit by the pandemic's emotional toll the worst. Native researchers say tribal groups have responded with resilience and strength.

NPR's Noel King talks to John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction, whose report claims corruption and a lack of oversight were factors in the collapse.

The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.

Canceled last year for only the second time ever because of the pandemic, New York City's storied Village Halloween Parade returns, partly due to one very generous fan.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in Washington, D.C., today, meeting with Bush administration officials. He meets with the president tomorrow.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. A new criminal complaint alleges he forcibly touched a female staff member.

Host Bob Edwards remembers singer/songwriter John Phillips, who died of a heart attack on Sunday morning. The co-founder of the Mamas and the Papas and organizer of the Monterey Pop Festival penned many popular 1960s tunes, such as California Dreamin'.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that big businesses, such as the Boeing Corporation and Caterpillar, are dismayed that President Bush's budget would deeply cut a government finance program for foreign buyers.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Center about House lawmakers questing oil executives about alleged disinformation concerning fossil fuels' effect on global warming.

Every day is like Halloween when you're the children of costumed circus performers. Siblings Fritzi and Bobby Huber recount the time that their parents made their first Halloween extraordinary.

Are you noticing higher prices or emptier shelves? Going all-out on decor? Skipping physical gifts? It's a weird year in a weird economy, and we want to hear your story.

NPR's Margot Adler begins Morning Edition's four-part series on literacy by trying to define it. Educators struggle about whether to focus on fact-based knowledge or on critical thinking skills in the classroom.

The state wants to make boaters in the Keys anchored out "on the hook" move to regulated mooring fields or move every three months. Some boaters say that would sink one of the last affordable ways to live in the expensive island chain.

Seth Berkeley is the president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He argues that treating AIDS is only a part of the picture. Berkeley says that prevention -- in the form of a vaccine to stop the spread of AIDS -- should be just as important as treatment.

Noah Adams talks with Ralph Gardner Jr., who is covering the Puffy Combs trial for the New York Observer about closing arguments in the Puffy Combs trial. Yesterday, the defense made their closing arguments, and today was the prosecution's turn. Gardner says today prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos started his summation of the state's case by playing recordings of emergency telephone calls after 3 people were wounded by gunfire on Dec. 27, 1999.

A portrait of seediness and forgetfulness in the biggest little city in the world. Andrei Codrescu returns to the town where five years ago he was snowed in. Codrescu claims mountain lions came down to the town back then, but finds people don't remember that detail.

Reaction from around the country to the dips in the stock market.

NPR's Guy Raz in Ankara reports many Turks are questioning their government's dealings with the International Monetary Fund. They say the recent financial crisis would not have occurred if the government had refused to implement IMF-backed economic reforms.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that a high-profile French corruption trial was thrown into disarray today when a key defendant refused to testify. The defendant -- former oil executive Alfred Sirvan -- once boasted he had enough compromising information about former government officials "to blow the republic sky high." But when he appeared in court, he refused to answer any questions. Sirven's lawyers said he will talk -- but only after all related investigations into the corruption scandal are completed. Among the Sirven's co-defendants is former French foreign minister Roland Dumas.

A senior Pacific Fleet captain who was on board the U.S. submarine Greeneville the day it sank a Japanese fishing trawler off the shore of Hawaii was back on the stand today in the Navy's court of inquiry into the incident. The captain was expected to say the civilians on board did not interfere with the sub's crew and procedures. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Andy Bowers, who is covering the trial.

W.G. Snuffy Walden's new CD is called music by.... It's a collection of themes and incidental music that he's written for television. Walden's music has appeared on Felicity, Rosanne, Once and Again and Thirtysomething. His latest score is the theme to NBC's The West Wing. Noah Adams talks with Walden about how he writes music for TV and the concept behind the West Wing theme.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on the Bush administration's warning to Russia not to resume selling weapons to Iran. Secretary of State Colin Powell met yesterday with Sergay Ivanov, Secretary of Russia's Security Council. He said Russia is only selling 'defensive' weapons -- those may be considered 'destabilizing' by the U.S.