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Mark O'Connor has spent quality time as a Nashville fiddler, a rocker with The Dixie Dregs, and as a classical violinist. His new CD, In Full Swing, jumps into jazz with the help of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and vocalist Jane Monheit. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with O'Connor about his varied career and the Hot Swing Trio.

Chinese-born composer Tan Dun may be best known for his score to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which earned him a Grammy and an Oscar. His latest composition, Water Passion after Saint Matthew created in honor of J. S. Bach's 250th birthday, had its New York premiere last fall. Tan Dun employed the Dessoff Choirs -- an amateur group -- for the vocal work. Jeff Lunden, an independent producer, usually reports on music and culture from the vantage point of the audience. But for this story he provides NPR with a true inside look. Lunden sings tenor with the Dessoff Choirs.

Collectively, Americans are in debt $1.7 trillion. Today, we begin a multi-part series about our relationship with debt. We'll hear about one couple who got in way over their heads with credit cards, and we'll meet a small-town debt collector.

Profits are rising for oil companies. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts about accusations that those firms are price gouging and profiting from the Ukraine war.

Lawmakers are trying to answer how Congress could function if a catastrophe incapacitated members. A 2017 shooting at a GOP baseball practice, the pandemic and Jan. 6 have made the issue more urgent.

She is on the steering committee of the group International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). The group organized last Saturday's peace rally in Washington, D.C.

Smallpox vaccinations begin today for medical workers in several states and Los Angeles County. The government's goal is the inoculation of 450,000 health workers against a bioterrorism attack with smallpox. But some are resisting vaccination out of safety and legal liability fears. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Last month, Morning Edition invited listeners to share stories about "good deeds" they had witnessed or heard about. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on some of the many responses that came in. And npr.org offers a few stories that did not make it on the air.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Randall of the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin about the $41 hamburger he made last week using 24.2 pounds of ground beef. Mr. Randall says that his project was inspired by an innate Texas desire not to be outdone by a $41 Kobe beef burger now on sale at the Homestead in New York. The Texas burger was roughly the size of a manhole cover. It fed 50 people and was served on a specially baked bun.

Before World War II, 15 million Jews lived in Eastern Europe. Most of their stories were lost through war and migration. But now, a group of researchers is compiling the largest regional online archive of Jewish life, past and present. NPR's Guy Raz reports on the Centropa project -- view some of the photos included in the archive, and read the stories behind the images.