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Open drug use and the threat of mass violence have prompted calls for more security funding for mass transit. Congress also says better oversight of existing security is needed.

The avalanche of anti-LGBTQ laws before state legislatures this year is inspiring LGBTQ candidates to seek office. This is even happening in smaller cities and rural parts of the U.S.

In 2007, Russia launched the first nation-on-nation cyberattack against Estonia. Now, the lessons learned from "Web War I" are being used in the cyberdefense of Ukraine.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado about his visit to Ukraine's capital as part of a Congressional delegation that met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Six U.S. soldiers die after their Black Hawk helicopter goes down near Tikrit. The Black Hawk may have been hit by hostile fire before crashing into a riverbank near Saddam Hussein's hometown. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with consumer activist Ralph Nader, who ran for president as the Green Party candidate in 2000, about the possibility of his running for president in the 2004 elections.

Award-winning double-bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, 42, describes his music.

On Oct. 11, 2001, more than 5,000 Kansans took part in a project called "A Day in My Community." Residents kept a diary for a single day, to leave a historical record of their lives at the beginning of the millennium. In the latest story in the Prairie Diaries series, student athlete Matt Ybarra discusses the importance of high school sports in small-town life. Read excerpts of his diary.

President George W. Bush drops his resistance to extending the deadline for the commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The commission has asked Congress for two more months to conduct its inquiry, extending its deadline to July. Bush is now asking Congress to grant the request. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Commentator Jacob Needleman delivers his first in a series of commentaries on the American presidency and religion. He talks about George Washington's farewell speech, in which he outlined moral guidelines to ensure continued democracy in America.