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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that there's new hope the fighting in Congo may end. The United Nations is helping to broker the peace, and Congo's new president Joseph Kabila is being credited with making a deal possible.

A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Samson Shekhar Chauhan of the Lutheran Maritime Ministries about his work assisting crew members unable to leave ships because of COVID restrictions and shipping delays.

Commentator Jill Maxi Schreibman knows firsthand what it's like to be laid off by a dot-com company.. .and she's determined not to go through it again.

The head of the office of Federal Student Aid, Richard Cordray, spoke with lawmakers about loan forgiveness and a resumption of student loan repayments after the pandemic pause.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports an FBI agent has been charged with spying for Moscow for more than 15 years. Robert Philip Hanssen is accused of trading highly classified information for cash and diamonds.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

At his first official White House press conference, President Bush continued to take the high road on the subject of last minute pardons by former President Clinton. We hear an excerpt. And NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the effort made today by New York Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to distance herself from the latest controversies surrounding the granting of last-minute pardons by her husband.

One of the two people that Hugh Rodham advocated pardons for was convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali. Noah talks with Stephen Braun of the Los Angeles Times.

Amy Tardif, of member station WGCU, reports that an airport in Naples, Florida, has banned certain types of jets because of noise complaints. Though the move is supported by many residents in the area, the ban has angered a number of aviation groups, including the Federal Aviation Administration.