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At a hundredth birthday party for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond, fellow Republican Trent Lott made a statement some believed to be in support of the segregationist and racist policies Thurmond once supported. Now Lott, the incoming Senate Majority leader, is trying to make amends. NPR's David Welna reports.

Two students from an inner city school in New Jersey win a $100,000 scholarship in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. NPR's Juan Williams talks with national science fair team winners Juliet Girard and Roshan Prabhu about their research into the genetic mapping of rice to increase yields.

New Labor Dept statistics released this week reveal that while unemployment among whites remained relatively constant rising from 5.1% to 5.2 percent, the rate for blacks rose even further, from 9.8 percent to percent.

A federal judge tosses a legal challenge brought by the General Accounting Office, in which the agency sought to learn more about meetings between Vice President Dick Cheney, energy company lobbyists and oil industry officials. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

In the tropical jungle outside Saigon, commentator Robert Franklin visited the Cao-Dai, a syncretic religious group that pulls from Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Judaism and Christianity. Their fantastic, beautiful and ornate compound is in the middle of people living in extreme poverty, and it reminds Franklin that that religions may be better at dispensing charity than demonstrating justice.

NPR's Susan Stamberg continues her Tuesday series on peace by talking to Yoko Ono about her lifelong efforts to promote peace. As a little girl during World War Two, Ono spent time in Tokyo bomb shelters during Allied air raids. Today, she continues the peace activism that she and her late husband, John Lennon, were involved in during his lifetime. This year, Ono started a new prize called the Lennon-Oko Grant for Peace an award for artists who live in areas where there's conflict.

President Bush meets with Brazil's leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House. Market reform talks are on the table with the key South American trading partner. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Talking about racial relations in America can often be a minefield of misunderstanding. But for comedians, it can be a goldmine -- an endless source of great material. In the first of a three-part series, co-host Michele Norris talks with Margaret Cho. Hear an extended version of Cho's interview, and learn more about the series.

In India, the Hindu nationalist-led BJP government plans to rewrite school textbooks, leaving out the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic. Critics say the omission is one of a dozen examples of the government trying to recast the country's history in a more harmonious, Hindu-flavored light. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

Black & Decker is moving one of it factories out of a small Maryland town to Mexico, and taking the community's best-paying jobs with it. Like many laid-off manufacturing workers, the citizens of Easton, Maryland will find it tough to find new jobs that pay as much. NPR's Jack Speer reports.