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On Wednesday, the whole convention center in Las Vagas temporarily lost power. The entire place went dark and the fancy technology displays were shut down.

Jose Carlos Grant is being held at the Sierra Conservation Center in California. He submitted a poem for our National Poetry Month series last month via mail.

The explosion in the center of the Czech capital heavily damaged one building and shattered windows in nearby structures. There were fears that at least a few people might be trapped in rubble.

As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the U.S., numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy and efficacy persist. Experts from Harvard and the CDC tackle these questions.

In this excerpt from a speech to a Senior Center in Sun City, Arizona, President Clinton talked about the importance of education in building a bridge to the 21st century---hooking up every classroom to the Internet and making going to college more accessible and less expensive. He said he wants to make home-ownership easier, and wants to change the law so that people won't have to pay taxes when they sell their homes. "We want to continue the work to balance the budget," the President said...to keep interest rates down and keep the economy moving. He says the GOP budget he vetoed was wrong to end Medicaid and wrong to create a two-tier Medicare system, wrong to make cuts in Medicare, and wrong in lots of ways.

Scientists in Scotland say they have cloned an adult sheep. This is the first time that scientists have reported cloning an adult mammal. Many are now wondering whether the same techniques could be used on human beings. Robert talks to several people about the implications of cloning. Dan Rosenberg, General Manager of Three Chimneys Farm, says cloning would make the business of breeding horses less interesting. Ruth Portilo, (poor- TIH - loh) director of the Center on Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, says that human cloning seems likely one day. Ted Peters, Professor of Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California says that cloning may be unwise, but not unethical. And Dr. Leon Kass, the Addie Clark Harding Professor at the College and Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago, says that human cloning denies the essense of the individual.

Secret Service logs show that John Huang, the Democratic fund-raiser at the center of a growing controversy over foreign political donations, visited the White House more than 60 times this year. The records did not show what Huang's business was at the White House, but they indicate he was a much more frequent visitor than the White House has acknowledged previously. News of Huang's visits is prompting Republican demands for President Clinton to explain what Huang was doing there. Critics have questioned whether Huang's repeated presence in the White House violated conflict-of-interest laws. Phillip Davis has a report.

Noah talks with people who are holding summer jobs that end on or around Labor Day. Boston Berry is a pool lifeguard at the Lee Cultural Center in West Philadelphia, where he's been a guard for twenty-five summers. After the pool closes today, he'll resume his winter job, teaching high school. Patrick Houlihan and Susan Edelman are park rangers in the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Today marks the unofficial end of the camping season; during the summers, they conduct dogsled demonstrations, hikes, and educational seminars. Finally, Laurie Dahlgren is a student at the University of Minnesota who sells fudge, coffee, jams and chocolates at the Knott's Berry General Store in the Camp Snoopy Amusement Park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Today's her last day of work before she returns to school.

While the demand for low-wage work is rising, the number of people available to fill those jobs is shrinking. But one company -- CVS/Pharmacy -- has invested in a training program to recruit employees. NPR's Jennifer Ludden visits a CVS training facility.

Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite has been at the center of some of broadcasting’s most sublime and memorable moments. But 46 years ago, Cronkite was conscripted into a program that remains one of television’s most memorably vulgar shows: the 1957 Mike Todd party at Madison Square Garden.