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All this week, the Navy has been conducting a Court of Inquiry into the Feb. 9 collision between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing trawler. The surfacing USS Greeneville crippled the fishing vessel and sent nine of its passengers down with it. The first week of testimony has left many questions unanswered, but it may finally have begun the process of healing for the victims' families and for relations between the two countries. From Honolulu, NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the march of Zapatista rebels to the Mexican capital, where they hope to renew the peace process.

Colorado's Proposition 115 could shut down one of the few clinics nationwide that specializes in later abortion.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that President Bush today certifies countries as being cooperative in the war against drugs. Countries that are not certified could face sanctions. Some members of Congress propose to alter or even drop the certification process on grounds that it is condescending to other governments and fails to produce the desired result. The Bush administration says the process should be re-evaluated.

Commentator Robert Franklin says that the pardon controversy has demonstrated to the whole country what the African-American community has always known: You are only entitled to as much justice as you can afford. Money and celebrity tend to distort the process of distributing justice.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Steve Saltzburg, professor of law at George Washington University School of Law. He specializes in criminal law and procedure and was a Department of Justice official from 1988-89. Saltzburg talks about what Congress can do as a result of the hearings on the Rich pardon. He says, despite the fact that Congress has no power to overturn the pardon, Congress can turn over any evidence of laws broken during the pardon process to the Attorney General for possible prosecution, and may consider introducing a constitutional ammendment. Saltzburg believes that Congress is more likely to suggest that future presidents should follow the normal procedures for review of pardon requests by the Department of Justice.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that the Chinese government today struck back at the United States, calling it hypocritical on human rights. China went on the offensive after the U.S. released a State Department report yesterday, saying that China's human rights record has greatly deteriorated over the past year. Chinese officials discussed the issue during a news conference as U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson was in Beijing. The Chinese government didn't like her remarks either, saying she was ignorant of China's situation. She is pressing China to abolish its "re-education through labor" policy, under which minor offenders can be locked up for several years, without any judicial process.

Trump doesn't want to participate in a virtual debate. Thirteen were arrested in a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor. And, contact tracing for the White House coronavirus outbreak reveals challenges.

Researchers have devised a large clinical study to quickly assess whether one doctor's apparently effective treatment for deadly sepsis is a fluke or worthy of widespread use.

Steve Inskeep talks to Trump supporter Chris Buskirk, who runs the conservative publication American Greatness, about the president possibly being linked to campaign finance violations.

About two dozen people spoke out Tuesday against Mosaic's plan to mine phosphate in DeSoto County. No one told county commissioners they support the mine, proposed 90 minutes southeast of Tampa.

The Fed left interest rates near zero on Wednesday but announced plans to start removing some of the support it has provided to the economy as inflation hits its highest point in 30 years.

Jury selection is in its third week in Georgia as attorneys question jurors in the murder trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger.

British Prime Minster Theresa May faces a vote of no confidence. And it comes after May scrapped a vote at the last minute on her deeply unpopular Brexit divorce agreement.

A fourth professor has come forward in a controversy at the University of Florida involving free speech, academic freedom and the right of faculty members to testify in lawsuits against the state.

New FM radio stations are getting started all over the country. The Federal Communications Commission recently decided to grant licenses for low power stations -- perhaps as many as a thousand of them around the United States. All Things Considered Host Noah Adams talks to people in five communities where new stations have received or are in the process of applying for the licenses. These stations can only broadcast within a range of five to ten miles, depending on the surrounding geography. But for these people, that's enough. Noah speaks to Joe Steinberger in Rockland, Maine; Danny Wilson of the Fellowship of Holy Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia; Chukou Thao who's starting a Hmong station in Fresno, California; Andrew Tooyak, an Inupiaq Eskimo in Point Hope, Alaska; and Rich Osborn on San Juan Island in the state of Washington.

The new policy follows up on the tech giant's August announcement that it would take a number of steps aiming to protect minors' privacy. It is intended for cases in which the subject is under 18.

In the past few weeks we've frequently heard warnings that the once robust American economy could be headed for recession. But is it an appropriate term? Is the economy in the process of making a "soft landing," or a "hard landing?" Is it on the brink of a "down turn" or a "recession?" Robert Siegel addresses these questions to Jeremy Siegel (no relation), Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Stocks for the Long Run. (4:30)Stocks for the Long Run, is published by McGraw Hill, 1998.

Marvin Weeks memorialized Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was killed in Georgia last year, in a mural. Weeks' latest work delves into the history of race relations in Brunswick, Ga.

In his new book Sellout, writer Dan Ozzi traces a music industry in flux starting in the mid-90s, as punk bands cash in on their cred in exchange for rock stardom and asks, was it all worth it?

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on a federal judge's ruling that felons have a constitutional right to DNA evidence testing. The Virginia case involves James Harvey, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for a 1990 rape he says he did not commit. He asked the state to do DNA testing on items of evidence, but Virginia refused. The judge ruled that the state must do the tests, as part of Harvey's right to due process. The ruling is believed to be the first of its kind in the federal courts.

Without dental insurance, William Stork has put off getting his rotten tooth pulled; Medicare doesn't cover the $1,000 procedure. Dentists can't agree on whether all seniors should get that benefit.

The United States is one of a handful of countries, and the only wealthy nation, without a national paid leave policy.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the Bush administration is trying to decide whether to fight Democrats over the use of the American Bar Association to screen judicial nominees. The administration would like to eliminate this step in the nomination process, though it's been done since the days of President Eisenhower.

American Lori Berenson begins her retrial on terrorism charges in connection with a leftist guerilla plot to seize Peru's Congress. Berenson was originally sentenced to life by a military tribunal five years ago. The retrial comes after the United States complained about a lack of due process in the first trial. Claire Marshall reports from Lima.