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An investigation by NPR and the Mountain West News Bureau found at least 19 people have died since 2016 in tribal detention centers overseen by the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Commentator Fred Grandy talks about TV's so-called "family hour", and the Media Research Center's campaign to remove "offensive" shows from the 8-9 pm time slot. Grandy recalls when his show "Love Boat" first aired, 20 years ago, it was decried by the public and media alike for being racy and unfit for children to watch. Grandy suggests that the responsibility for teaching our children values should fall more on us, and less on the TV networks.

of the Immigration and Naturalization Service was on Capitol Hill yesterday to give testimony on an embarrassing incident. In the summer of 1995, INS officials in Miami lied and deceived members of Congress who had come down for a visit. To make the center appear less crowded, they released dozens of illegal aliens...some criminals and some who hadn't been screened for communicable diseases. Last week, 12 INS employees were fired, demoted or suspended.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a new, negative evaluation of the recent television ratings system. The conservative Media Research Center claims the system has failed to adequately alert parents to programming they might not want their children to see. In fact, the group's reviewers contend that prime time programming rated for general audiences routinely contained "vulgarities" and "obscenities". The study looked at 150-hours of prime time television on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN, and WB networks. NBC garnered some of the harshest criticism.

Robert talks with Selig Harrison, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and the author of The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy (Free Press, 1978). They discuss the advantages of defusing the tension between North and South Korea which have emerged following the defection of a high-ranking North Korean official to South Korea...and what a reconciliation of the two nations would do for the North.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that the rate of AIDS deaths dropped dramatically in New York City in the first seven months of last year, according to public health officials there. The drop is being attributed to the dramatic effects of new AIDS drugs introduced at the beginning of 1996. At the same time, the rate of new HIV infections nationwide fell in young gay men and young injection drug users -- but rose precipitously in young heterosexual men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Brooke speaks with Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland about why many terrorist acts now go unclaimed. In the past, terrorist organizations like the Irish Republican Army always would claim responsibility for an action, and implicit within that act would lie the group's agenda. Now, Hoffman says, some terrorists perform their deadly craft silently because they believe only God needs to know what they've done.

Linda Wertheimer travelled to northeastern Ohio last week, driving along the shores of Lake Erie, talking to voters about the Presidential campaign. She met with the types of voters candidate Dole is courting and needs to win over -- fiscal conservatives, people concerned with familiy values and the moral center of this country, people who have voted for Republicans in the past. But Linda Wertheimer found that many people who one might expect to vote for Dole AREN'T, and they tell us why.

The pharmaceutical industry was one of the biggest contributors to Republican campaign coffers for the 2002 midterm elections, a new report shows. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, drug makers gave $14 million to Republicans, and just $5 million to Democrats. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.

North Korea inflames nuclear fears by ordering U.N. monitors out of the country. The Bush administration, busy elsewhere, watches warily. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and international relations expert Ellen Laipson, president of the Henry L. Stimson Center.