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This month, NPR News will examine the struggle to provide drugs to HIV infected people around the world. In today's report, NPR's Richard Knox takes a look at the influence of health care activists on pharmaceutical companies.

Host Bob Edwards describes the christening of the new aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan.

Humanitarian aid worker Kenneth Gluck. He was working with Doctors Without Borders in Chechnya when he was kidnapped and held for 26 days. He was released on February 3rd. Gluck still isnt sure who kidnapped him or who freed him. It could have been Chechen gangs, who have seized other humanitarian workers. Or it could have been Russian authorities who staged the abduction for propoganda purposes. The Russians claimed credit for freeing him.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Japan's worst economic downturn since World War II has radically changed expectations of young college graduates. In years past, the country's corporate giants would go to the top schools and actively recruit new employees, who generally were given jobs for life. Now it is the students who are chasing employers. And many of them are not finding jobs. Some have given up on full-time employment and simply bounce from one part-time job to another while living with their parents.

He was NASAs first flight director, from the first forays into space in the 1960s to after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969. Kraft also created Mission Control. Hes written a new book, –Flight: My Life In Mission Control—

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Pretoria, South Africa on the opening day of a lawsuit that pits the global drug industry against the South African government. Over 36 drug companies are challenging a law that allows the government to import the cheapest medicine from the cheapest source. The companies say the law ignores their patent rights. The government says the law is necessary in order to afford desperately needed AIDS drugs.

The Russian Foreign Ministry today lodged a formal protest against the United States in response to the report of the tunnel under the Soviet Embassy. But it was not so many years ago that the United States was protesting the discovery of listening devices in the new American Embassy in Moscow. NPR's Tom Gjelten looks back on a tradition of eavesdropping that seems to have survived the Cold War.

Robert Siegel talks to Lowell Bergman, a reporter for the New York Times, who broke a story this weekend that revealed a tunnel underneath the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., that was used by the FBI and the National Security Agency to monitor Russian embassy activity. Lowell Bergman is also a reporter for the PBS program Frontline and a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

In Latino communities across the U.S., bright orange marigolds have become an important flower this time of year, because of the special role they play in Day of the Dead celebrations.

A look at the human toll of "frictionless" app delivery in New York City, where the ranks of delivery workers have swelled during the pandemic.