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The Labor Department says the U.S. economy lost more than a half-million jobs in November. It was the steepest drop in nearly a quarter-century. Figures show that 533,000 jobs were lost last month, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent. That's a 15-year high. It's proof that the recession, already a year old, is getting deeper.

Microsoft Bill Gates made it to the finals of the American Contract Bridge League Summer Nationals, but he lost. Scott speaks with Paul Linxweiler, managing editor of the League's bridge bulletin.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the severe drought in the southern part of Afghanistan. Farmers in the region of Kandahar have lost crops and livestock. The World Food Program is trying to get food relief into the area, where hunger is widespread.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says NATO has lost its Cold War purpose and the Bush administration is looking to NATO more for moral support than for military assistance.

Republicans now control the executive and legislative branches. Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about how the Democrats lost Congress, and what it means for the Bush administration.

Today President Bush was called upon for the second time to comfort a nation in mourning. He telephoned the families of the lost astronauts and then addressed the nation from the cabinet room.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that El Salvador's ensuing rainy-season threatens to worsen living conditions for thousands of people who lost their homes in two devastating earthquakes earlier this year.

Commentator Elissa Ely -- a psychiatrist at a hospital in Massachusetts -- has an alcoholic patient who's convinced he will be killed when his father dies. After his father does die, the patient lives, though he's lost his will to live.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment rate notched up another tenth of a percent today to 4.3 percent. And the Labor Department said the economy lost 86,000 jobs in March -- the biggest monthly job loss in nearly a decade.

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