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Stocks took another pummeling today. The bloodied Nasdaq composite index fell sharply again after Gateway, a leading computer maker, warned of upcoming weak sales. The Dow also lost ground. But it's the relentless decline of the technology-rich Nasdaq since Spring that has investors most worried.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen gives an update on the battle to maintain independent television in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Media Mogul Vladimir Gusinsky has lost his controlling interest in the Media-Most conglomerate to the partially state-owned television monopoly.

NPR's Anthony Brooks talks to Gore supporters in the Vice President's home state of Tennessee. Gore lost Tennessee in last week's election by three percentage points. If he had carried it, he would already be president-elect and Florida would be a moot point.

NPR's Philip Davis reports on problems faced by Palm Beach County, Florida voters who mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore. Many Democrats contend that these lost votes may have cost Gore the presidency.

Commentator Andrew Lam remembers his first Thanksgiving Day in the United States when he could barely say the word "Thanksgiving." His family was silent and lost without his father, who had stayed behind in Vietnam, and there seemed little reason for thankfulness.

In the wake of the excruciatingly close presidential race in Florida, NPR's Philip Davis reports on problems faced by Palm Beach County voters who mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore. And many Democrats contend that these lost votes may have cost Gore the presidency.

The U.S. men's basketball team lost to Argentina Friday -- and thus will not win the gold medal. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Rock historian Ed Ward looks at the early days of the Neon Boys who became the band Television. The "lost" third album by Television has just come out on CD — a 25-year old live broadcast, and their first two albums have just been remastered.

Robert Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His new book, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, is about the Arabs who protected or aided Jews in North Africa during World War II.

Hurricane Ida rapidly gained strength right before it hit Louisiana this weekend. Abnormally hot water in the Gulf of Mexico acted as fuel for the storm.