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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell urges other nations to face up to Saddam Hussein, saying the world "must not shrink" from its responsibility to disarm the Iraqi leader's regime. Hear NPR News.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Sherwin B. Nuland about his new book Lost in America: A Journey with My Father. It is the story of growing up in the shadow of an immigrant father who cannot make the America dream come true. Nuland describes the relationship between him and his father and the impact that relationship had on Nuland's later years. The book is published by Knopf.

More than 100 British police raid a London mosque early Monday in connection with their investigation into the recent discovery of the deadly poison ricin. Seven are arrested in the raid, the largest of its kind in Britain since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Mexican president claims his yet-to-be-born grandson is a supporter.

Wisconsin store asks a 76-year-old to show some ID.

Iraq says it has shot down an unmanned U.S. reconnaissance plane that entered its airspace, but U.S. officials refuse to confirm the claim. Meanwhile, U.N. arms inspectors continue their search in Iraq, visiting at least four more sites. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Charles Forest, the chief executive of Indict, a London-based human rights group, about the allegations against Saddam Hussein's oldest son, Odai Hussein. He heads Iraq's Olympic Association and has been accused of torturing athletes for poor performance.

The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the state can discourage women on welfare from having another child. The lawsuit argues that a federal welfare law that allows states to deny additional payments for children born into families already on welfare is unfair. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.

Theresa Schiavone reports on the public television documentary, Two Towns of Jasper, which examines the racial divide in the Texas city where the 1998 racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. occurred. Two New York filmmakers, one black and one white, made the movie as a way to reconcile their differing views about race relations. During the Byrd murder trials in 1999, Marco Williams, who is black, interviewed black residents of Jasper; Whitney Dow, who is white, interviewed white residents.

The Senate is expected to confirm Tom Ridge as the first secretary of the new Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, the head of the Transportation Security Administration blocks efforts by employees to form a union, saying it would jeopardize national security. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.