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From member station WNYC, Andrea Bernstein reports that New York City will pay millions to citizens who were strip-searched by police. The settlement is one of the largest ever for civil rights offenses.

Brett Blume of member station KWMU reports that TWA will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, setting the stage for a buy-out by American Airlines.

NPR's Alex Chadwick celebrates the news that the Ford Motor Company will manufacture 25,000 new Thunderbirds this year. The cars will cost up to $40,000 each.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on reaction in Illinois to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn use of the federal Clean Water Act to stop construction of a landfill on ponds used by migratory birds.

Bob Edwards speaks with MTV Programming President Brian Graden about the network's decision to air a 17-hour-long, scrolling list of hate crime victims' names. The program comes in the wake of complaints against the network for its role in promoting artists who use hate-filled lyrics.

NPR's Rick Karr reports on the effort to put a price on music played over the web. Federal regulators will soon determine what fees webcasters must pay musicians and songwriters. Some online music businesses are saying legislation hasn't kept up with innovations in Internet radio.

As the controversy over the use of Depleted Uranium weapons heats up in Europe, NPR's David Kestenbaum takes a long hard look at what the science says - and doesn't say - about the possible health risks.

Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher was thought to have died, when his plane was shot down over Iraq in the first night of the Persian Gulf War, in January of 1991. Bob Burns, Pentagon Correspondent for the Associated Press, tells Noah Adams that Speicher's status has now been changed, from killed to missing in action.

Robert talks with Tania Branigan -- a reporter for the British daily newspaper The Guardian -- about the case of the naked defendant Vincent Bethell. Bethell had been held in jail for more than five months on charges of creating a public nuisance. Mr. Bethell refused to wear clothing to court. Remarkably, the judge allowed the trial to proceed.

Every workplace in China has a propaganda unit. The central government now calls them "publicity" departments. NPR's Rob Gifford reports that Chinese President Jiang Zemin addressed provincial chiefs of these propaganda units last night. The speech seemed remarkably out of step with today's China, a country in which people generally are far more interested in making money than in politics. The President said Marxism still is his guiding philosophy and that he would work to educate the Chinese people about Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong. Yet, couched in the language of Communist ideology was an acknowledgement that what both China and the Communist Party need is economic development.