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In northern Wisconsin, Chippewa Indians still harvest wild rice by hand. Nick Van Der Puy [PIE] from member station WXPR in Rhinelander, Wisconsin visited one rice-harvesting camp, where family traditions and cultural heritage mix with economic opportunity.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports on Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's visit to the United States. One of the main issues discussed will be Japan's failing economy, which Secretary of State Colin Powell calls a "security concern" for the U.S.

Host Bob Edwards talks with plant expert Ketzel Levine about a camellia plant in his garden which is flowering in many colors. Levine says this quirk of the camellia is why the plant has so many varieties. Visit NPR's Talking Plants Web site for more on the camellia.

Host Melissa Block visits the staff of The Onion -- the news-satire tabloid self-identified as 'America's Finest News Source.' The Onion recently moved its editorial offices to New York City, and Melissa caught up with them during one of their planning meetings.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez continues the series on literacy on Morning Edition with a visit to an Ohio school where students and teachers take standardized tests this month. Some educators complain that classroom curriculum focuses entirely on preparing students for performance tests, rather than developing critical thinking skills.

The father-daughter radio team of Mal and Jennifer Sharpe continue their exploration of what they call photo walls with a visit to The Magic Castle in the Hollywood Hills.

In the latest National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick visited Dry Tortugas National Park, which, despite its name, is mostly underwater. The new ecological preserve off the coast of Florida is the government's first attempt to protect the ocean as a wilderness area. (5:19

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's official visit to Israeli President Weizman as renewed Palestinian-Israeli talks remain stalled over Prime Minister Netanyahu's demands that security arrangements to accommodate an Israeli pullout from Hebron be negotiated.

NPR's Sunni Khalid recently visited a Kurdish refugee camp. He'll talk with Robert about the encampment along the Iran-Iraqi border that UN officials said was shelled today from the Iraqi side of the border, killing four and wounding eleven.

Noah talks to Tom Quigley, an advisor to the Conference of Catholic Bishops, about Fidel Castro's visit with the Pope today and the state of religious freedom for Catholics in Cuba. Quigley studies Latin American and Caribbean affairs for the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Commenator Bill Harley visits a classroom and gets so excited about storytelling, he blunders into "Oedipus rex," and the kids get curious about incest, patricide and other neat stuff. Bill gets to leave, but the teachers have to clean up his mess.

Ivan Watson in Lagos reports a team of US military advisers has completed the first phase of a program to train Nigerian troops for peacekeeping duty in Sierra Leone. The training is part of a 50-million dollar program announced by President Clinton during a visit to Nigeria last year.

NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg visits an artist who is rendering images of each of the American Presidents and First Ladies. Artist Tina Mion says she tries to portray the essence of each of her subjects, rather than to create literal representations.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte is winding up her visit with Serbian officials today. Del Ponte failed to persuade Serbian officials to turn over former president Slobodan Milosevic for trial in the Hague.

President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine Monday.

Gurus Geneen Roth and Ed Espe Brown championed the idea that how we relate to food affects other aspects of our lives. In new personal essay collections, they reassess their past self-help advice.

Research shows more people are linking climate change to extreme weather events, like the ongoing flooding in America's heartland. Experts are hoping it also inspires action.

A controversial self-defense statute appears to produce more killings, according to a new study. Advocates for the law say it's working as designed. But researchers have different explanations about what might be happening.

The Republican incumbents are baselessly casting doubt on the state's voting system. Some in the GOP worry their words could depress voter turnout and cost the party two Senate seats.

Social Democratic Party leader Olaf Scholz, the front-runner in the polls to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is credited for transforming Hamburg when he was the city's mayor.

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. Rangers stormed the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to break through Nazi lines. Historian Douglas Brinkley talks about this historical event and the rise of the 'New Patriotism.'

The Daily Beast editor chats with Renee Montagne about the best things she's been reading lately. The focus this month: the perils and pleasures of the personal chronicle, whether it's on the Internet, in a diary, or in a juicy tell-all memoir.

People are consulting weather apps, donning rain gear and downing electrolytes in a quest to enjoy the 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

U.S. soldiers are trying to deal a crippling blow to the Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni. It's one of the last major Taliban strongholds, but the American forces are trying to do the job on a short timetable.

Once on the brink of extinction, the Mexican wolf population is ‘booming’ in Arizona and New Mexico.