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Linda Wertheimer talks with Kenneth Quinn, former chief counsel of the FAA about airport security issues involving airport workers who have access to airplanes on the ground such as food service workers, maintainance and cleaning crews. (4:00) 2A CUTAWAY 0:59 2B 11. 800 NUMBER - NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that the FBI has set up an 800 number to handle tips from normal citizens that might help explain why TWA Flight 800 crashed. The bureau typically gets a high volume of calls on such lines, but they say any one call can provide a critical piece of information.

In part three of a series on deregulation, NPR's Scott Horsley reports on how deregulated electrical utilities have increased the cost of powering the neon lights of the Las Vegas strip. Deregulation was supposed to reduce the cost of electricity, but in parts of Nevada and California, it's had the opposite effect. New power plants and transmission lines are expensive, and financial problems at some of the biggest utility companies have made it hard for them to raise the necessary capital.

Robert talks with Paul Venables, Co-creative Director at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners in San Francisco, about the Internet company ad culture. Last year during the Super Bowl, 17 dot-com companies advertised during the big game. Firms spent as much as three-million dollars for a 30-second spot. These companies were unknown to many and had little to no profits to their name. This year, the Super Bowl commercial line-up will feature mostly the traditional old economy companies. Three e-companies are returning, however: E-Trade, Hotjobs and Monster.

NPR's David Welna reports on the first day of the 107th Congress. Republican Dennis Hastert has returned for a second term as Speaker of the House of Representatives. The vote, with 222 for Hastert and 206 for Democratic leader Richard Gephardt, was along party lines, except for two exceptions: Democrat James Traficant of Ohio, an outspoken and controversial maverick, fulfilled his promise and voted for Hastert. Gene Taylor, a conservative Democrat from Mississippi, voted not for Gephardt but for Representative John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat. Two other House members voted "present." Other than that, it was a day of excitement, as many members brought their children onto the House floor.

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes 10-8 along party lines to approve President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nomination now moves to the Senate floor, where a vote could come as early as Friday.

Many people first encountered actress Carrie Fisher as a faded holograph image beamed from the R2-D2 unit in 1977's Star Wars. Since then, the apparition known as Princess Leia has become a dominant cultural image. Fisher remembers some choice lines in a 2004 interview with Fresh Air.

In his book, The Holy Vote, veteran journalist Ray Suarez explores the politics of faith in America. Suarez writes about gay marriage, intelligent design and other aspects of a fault line that often divides religious people from other religious people.

The satirical novel The Last One In chronicles the adventures of an unlikely war correspondent — a New York gossip columnist sent to the front lines of the Iraq war. In 2003, author Nicholas Kulish was an embedded reporter with troops in Iraq.

This is essentially the pitch for a new line of designer horse shoes. They're sold by a Kentucky company called Horse Kicks. It makes classic shoes, shaped to fit around a horse's hoof.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate criticized X's handling of hate speech. One damning line of the report states: "Twitter failed to act on 99% of 'blue tick' tweets containing racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content."