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Throughout the pandemic, the Oregon Employment Department has been under intense pressure to get money into the hands of people who lost jobs. In an effort to move faster, the Employment Department quietly stopped following a key part of its own process: getting some employers' side of the story.

NPR's Richard Knox reports on new evidence that anti-HIV drugs are restoring the immune systems of people who had lost nearly all protection against infection. Two studies in this week's New England Journal of Medicine show that most people on so-called combination therapy for HIV no longer need to take drugs to prevent a type of pneumonia that often strikes people with weakened immune systems.

Noah talks with Marjorie McQueen, a councilwoman from Lockerbie, Scotland. She and two children were at home watching television in December of 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed 300 yards from their home. Her children lost friends. The experience was a painful one. Noah talks with Mrs. McQueen about how the town is reacting now that the long awaited verdicts are in.

This year, key battles for control of the Senate will take place in about 10 states -- including five Southern states where Democrats are retiring. The Democrats need to win two seats to regain the majority they lost in 1994. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Ken Rudin.

New trade rules lifting quotas on garment exports are having an impact for many countries. One such country is the tiny African nation of Lesotho, where six factories have closed and some 6,000 workers have lost their jobs.

Edward Hopper's 1942 Nighthawks captures three customers seated at the counter of a brightly lit all-night diner, all seemingly lost in their own thoughts. NPR's Scott Simon presents the story behind one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century. His report is part of the Present at the Creation series on the origins of American cultural icons.

To mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, NPR News provides comprehensive coverage on the air and online. For Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon talks with Jimmy Dunne, who is working to rebuild his investment firm after it lost 66 people in the attacks.

Using In the time of Michelangelo, royalty once spent much more on tapestries than on having their portraits painted. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has brought together some of the finest surviving examples of this lost Renaissance art form -- and as David D'Arcy reports for Weekend All Things Considered, some critics are calling it the art show of the year.

Nicholas Wade, science reporter for The New York Times, examines what we've learned about our human ancestors using the latest techniques in DNA analysis in his new book, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors.

Scott Ballings has lost his health insurance twice in the past four years, and at times even paid for it out of his own pocket. But he decided it wasn't worth it, and now Ballings -- who has epilepsy -- hopes that he can avoid illness or accidents. Susan Roesgen of member station WWNO reports.