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It marks an abrupt end to a sense of normalcy that had settled over Moscow. On Thursday, Russia reported 1,159 deaths in the previous 24 hours. The Kremlin blames Russians' reluctance to vaccinate.

Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the Navy's decision to convene a public court of inquiry to investigate the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine earlier this month. Nine passengers of the fishing boat are missing and presumed dead.

Jason Bezis, a law student at the University of California at Berkeley, has always harbored a special appreciation for our first president. He wants the nation to refer to our annual Februrary federal holiday by its given name: Washington's Birthday.

The idea of selling public lands is sacrilegious in much of the West. In Southern Nevada, the affordable housing crisis may be an extenuating circumstance.

Linda Wertheimer talks with New York Times reporter Al Baker about four young men who've been charged as eco-terrorists in New York. The FBI believes that the four burned down houses in new developments to protest sprawl and that they are apart of the Earth Liberation Front. A question remains whether they are terrorists or teenage vandals.

Int he third part of the series "What Makes a City Great," NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg offers an unlikely candidate.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Linda Nochlin, professor of modern art at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU about the painter Balthus. The artist whose real name was Balthasar Klossowski died in Switzerland yesterday at the age of 92.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the wallop California's power crisis has given to small energy producers - who make electricity from renewable resources.

The West may not be best when it comes to selling products in Russian. As NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow there's a trend to advertise that products are made at home.

Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says we need to consider a new way to view the relaionship between human beings and their machines. Most companies, he argues, ignore the way people actually use technology. How else can you explain what's taking place on cell phones or the web. Wireless companies are attempting to shrink the web onto tiny cell phone screens...streaming media companies is trying to make the computer a TV or movie screen. Rushkoff says technology makers need to brings technology to the human being and not the other way around.