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President Bush's announced a proposed budget and budget cuts in his State of the Union speech. NPR's senior news analyst Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr spoke about the administration's spending plan with Mitch Daniels, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget; and Bob Greenstein, Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports that Napster has agreed to block access to more than one million copyrighted songs. With an official injunction still pending, however, the bickering on both sides continues.

Bob Mondello reviews the new French film by Patrice Leconte, starring Oscar winning actress Juliette Binoche. Mondello loved the film, a period-costume romance based on a true story, where Binoche battles the prejudice of a small provincal town.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that women in Japan gradually are taking jobs as sushi chefs, something that used to be exclusively the province of men. But most of Japan's more than 30,000 sushi restaurants still refuse to hire women, and many men refuse to eat sushi that a woman has prepared. Men often believe that women have a higher body temperature and other physiological differences that make them unsuitable to prepare something as delicate as sushi.

Kathleen Berger loved the diet soda Tab. So when she died from COVID-19, her children got their hands on enough cans to toast her. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her daughter, Sarah Berger Kennie.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to China military expert Oriana Skylar Mastro about escalating tensions between China and Taiwan.

A new, dire record: the U.S. has topped 9 million coronavirus infections. Hospitals are overwhelmed in some areas of the country, while others are preparing for a new influx of COVID-19 patients.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on a Supreme Court case about legal immigrants in the U.S. who have served a felony sentence, and under law, should be deported. Thousands of these people have no country to return to, and so are becoming "lifers" in Immigration Service jails.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on letters allegedly written by FBI agent Robert Phillip Hanssen -- letters that are now leading investigators to believe Hanssen has been supplying Russia with top-level U.S. security information for the past 15 years.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that on the eve of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Washington D.C., the British people are curious and anxious about where their country sits on Mr. Bush's list of priorities. The meeting between the two leaders will likely focus on a proposed U.S. missile defense system and foreign policy toward Iraq.