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A chaplain on staff at a hospital the night of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando is still ministering some of the staff and victims' family members five years later.

Now that infrastructure negotiations have broken down, NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida about whether a new GOP group can reach an agreement with the White House.

The Biden administration is trying to make it easier for states to make laws that temporarily remove guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

Across the country, efforts are underway to change the names of birds that commemorate a colonial and racist past. It's part of an effort to move birdwatching away from being a mainly white activity.

The producer presides over an all-instrumental, free-form trio with drummer Brian Blade and bassist Jim Wilson. Lanois never says a word, but he sculpts some serious, hypnotic sounds.

Canadian photographer Tony Austin captured a crow in the process of "anting" — spreading ants on itself on purpose. At first, he confesses, he had no idea what he was looking at.

President Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday. He is there to visit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discuss some of the major challenges facing the region, including Iran's suspect nuclear program, the conflict in Israel's neighbor Syria and the moribund Middle East peace process. Scott Horsley talks to Melissa Block.

"It's an audit in name only," says one former election security official. "It's a threat to the overall confidence of democracy, all in pursuit of continuing a narrative that we know to be a lie."

Ahead of the NATO summit, Biden met on Monday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Stoltenberg bout the alliance's future and its biggest challenges.

Officials have pleaded with tech giants to keep the documents off their sites, but Amazon briefly had blank vaccination cards for sale this week. They could land their bearers in prison.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, about efforts to bolster the U.S. supply chain. Four key sectors were reviewed including semiconductors.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that the Arab world is beginning to assess the potential damage to the peace process in the wake of last week's Israeli elections. At the meeting in Aqaba (AH-kuh-bah), Jordan, leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority called for Israel to continue the peace process.

- Daniel talks to Harvard historian Richard Pipes about Russia's chances of becoming a true democracy someday. Pipes says the road to democracy will be a long process. He sees Russians' views on religion and private property ownership as two major obstacles to Russia developing into a democratic society.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Yaron Ezrachi (ya-ROWN ez RAHK ee) and Tommy Lapid (la PEED) about shifts in attitudes about the peace process, as reflected in the Israeli election. Ezrachi is a political science professor at Hebrew University, and a fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Lapid is the chief editorial writer for the newspaper Ma'ariv (ma- a-REEV).

One morning, on the darkened stage of the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles, Noah talked with Julia Sweeney about her one-woman play, entitled "GOD SAID HA!" Sweeney is best known for her four years as a Saturday Night Live cast member, and as the creator of the androgynous character "Pat." After she left SNL she starred in a Disney film, "IT'S PAT!" On the weekend the movie opened to terrible reviews, Sweeney learned that her brother Mike had collapsed; he had lymphatic cancer. Mike moved in with Julia, and their parents came from Spokane, Washington...all to live in Julia's small West Hollywood house, to help Mike with chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Near Mike's death nine months later, Julia learned she had cervical cancer. Throughout this time, Julia was performing improvisational comedy on Sunday nights, talking about what was happening in her life. She's now collected this material as part of "GOD SAID HA!" The play opened in San Francisco, and is soon expected to go to Off-Broadway. Julia explained the process of using comedy to deal with difficult situations, and we'll hear several excerpts from the play.

- Daniel speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb about the crumbling peace process in Northern Ireland. With Protestants defying British police and Catholics setting off bombs, Goldfarb tells how hopes for a negotiated settlement in Northern Ireland are as distant than any since since the ceasefire was announced in 1994.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports the nation moved one step closer to a digital television broadcasting system today. The Federal Communications Commission, in a 4 - 0 vote, proposed rules that would match each of the nation's 1,600 television stations with a digital channel. The stations will continue broadcasting on their existing channels while making the changeover, a process that's expected to take up to 15 years.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that Palestinians in East Jerusalem are angry and bitter and they are directing much of their anger at Yasser Arafat. They see him as the main promoter of the peace process with Israel, an effort that has failed to bring about expected improvement in their daily lives.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the inconclusive end of President Clinton's emergency summit between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which was called to try to breathe new life into the Middle East peace process. After two days of talks, it appears that no compromises were reached, and the only semi-positive result was that Arafat and Netanyahu talked to each other face-to-face.

. Last week's outbreak of violence in the West Bank and Gaza has jeopardized the process and many are blaming Prime Minister Netanhayhu.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned Israel it has three weeks to begin implementing the Middle East peace accords, or he will cancel an economic conference slated to be held in November in Egypt. Mubarak is using the conference as leverage to get Israel to soften its position with Syria and the Palestinians.

NPR's Linda Gradstein and Eric Weiner each report on some voices of grief from the Middle East. The families of an Israeli solider and a Palestinian policeman killed last week in four days of armed clashes speak about the sad realities of what happens when the peace process... which they had hoped would supplant hatred... breaks down.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that representatives of all those who helped give birth in Oslo to what is now known as the Middle East peace process gathered by the sea of Galilee today to commemorate the third anniversary of their historic meeting in Norway. Representatives from Norway were there. Representatives of the PLO were there. Even former Prime Minister Peres was there. But none showed from the current Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who chose to ignore it as, so far, he has ignored the peace process itself.

Robert talks with Lily Galili, a writer of the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz. They discuss the announcement of Israeli President Ezer Weizman that he will meet with PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Weizman, a former general and critic of an accelerated peace process, is now concerned that peace negotiations may completely grind to a halt.

Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the Israeli cabinet voting to remove curbs on expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that further endangers the already stalled Middle East peace process. Today's action did not spell out when and where the settlements will be expanded, but left those determinations to the various government ministries involved.