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Noah Adams talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about the resignation today of U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck. Dombeck had been instrumental in many of the Clinton administration reforms of forest policy, some of which are already being challenged by the Bush administration.

The ads for supplemental Medicare Advantage plans describe vision and dental benefits, even grocery discounts and food deliveries. But look at the fine print.

NPR's Joanne Silberner will have the latest on a new Surgeon General's report on smoking. The focus this year is on women who smoke. Lung cancer and death rates are up, and more teenage girls are smoking. The surgeon general is recommending new anti-smoking campaigns aimed at women and girls.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks back on the American obsession with Fidel Castro, from the Kennedy administration's assassination plots to the Cuban missile crisis.

Kinzinger's Illinois district is being dramatically reshaped by the Democratic legislature.

The question was raised at a recent school board meeting. Could the special session end with a way to remove members who defy state rules? Scott Stephens, a Stetson law professor, offers perspective.

You've heard of walking billboards, but how about dribbling billboards? Noah Adams talks with Dakkan Abbe, president of Fifty Rubies Marketing in New York. Abbe has come up with an idea to use basketball players as human billboards -- by placing temporary tattoos on their arms.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Skopje that the recent fighting in northwest Macedonia has highlighted the country's deep ethnic divisions. His report gives a sampling of opinion from both communities.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports two bomb blasts rocked Jerusalem today, killing one person and injuring dozens more. Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for the bombings.

NPR's Kate Seelye in Amman reports Arab leaders opened summit talks in the Jordanian capital today. The Palestinian issue tops the agenda, but there are fears that continued tensions between Iraq and Kuwait could mar efforts to present a united Arab stand at the summit.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a dispute brewing on how the 2002 Winter Olympics will be characterized. Already, some are nicknaming the games the "Mormon Olympics" because of their location in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints not only takes offense at this use of the term "Mormon", but denies that it has any improper influence with Olympic officials.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's economic speech today in Michigan, before the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce. The president tried to make the case that quick action -- and especially a retroactive tax cut -- is what the sagging economy needs.

NPR's David Welna reports on the Democratic tax-cut proposal. Led by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Democrats are pushing for a $300 rebate to every taxpayer (and a $600 rebate to every couple), using about $60 billion from the budget surplus. They are also proposing an immediate cut in the lowest tax rate. Their proposal would be separate from President Bush's signature $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan, and Republicans fear that such a proposal would take the momentum away from Mr. Bush's program.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of a mentally retarded man facing a death sentence.

Senate Republican leaders spent the day seeking ways to bring two or three of their members back into the partisan fold on President Bush's budget and tax cut proposals. Yesterday, an amendment supported by Senate Democrats and a few Republicans reduced Mr. Bush's signature tax cut by nearly 30 percent. But a second threat to the budget is brewing in the spending increases embodied by more than 120 pending amendments. NPR's David Welna reports from the Capitol.

NPR's Kate Seeleye reports there are signs Syria may be backing away from its warming toward free speech and markets.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports the U.S. State Department today sharply criticized Israel for its announcement of intention to issue building permits for 700 more housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Matthew Gross, president of Submedia, about new subway tunnel ads that will hang on the walls between Atlanta subway stations. As the trains pass through the tunnels, passengers will see a sort of "flip book" effect as they pass the signs.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Washington Post reporter Mary Pat Flaherty about a report indicating design flaws in the Osprey aircraft. Marine Corps pilots say that the flaws were known about before recent accidents but were ignored, because the corps wanted to win Pentagon funding for full production of the plane.

Steve Krueger of member station KPLU reports Seattle residents are still buzzing with talk about why Boeing is moving its corporate headquarters to another city.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that when Boeing announced its decision to leave Seattle, it unveiled a list of three cities it is considering as a new headquarters. Chicago, Dallas and Denver made the list.

Life in one area of rural Alaska is about to change when the community gets broadband internet service later this month.

Thomas Mantz of Feeding Tampa Bay says he expects the economic effects of the pandemic on food security to last for years.

The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

Life in one area of rural Alaska will change when the community gets broadband internet service later this month.