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A hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was held yesterday. The commission is investigating whether thousands of citizens may have been denied the right to vote in Florida's November elections. NPR's Philip Davis reports.

Breslow: NPR's Peter Breslow pays a return visit to Ecuador 25 years after living there and brings back some snapshots.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

Leda Hartman examines how a third-grade social studies class in North Carolina is using e-mail to teach geography. Students there have received more than 300,000 e-mails from people on every continent. And each time they receive one from a new country or location, they learn all they can about that place.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that there's new hope the fighting in Congo may end. The United Nations is helping to broker the peace, and Congo's new president Joseph Kabila is being credited with making a deal possible.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from New Delhi on an unusual political fight-- Indian prostitutes want to be counted as workers, instead of beggars, in the country's census.

A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Samson Shekhar Chauhan of the Lutheran Maritime Ministries about his work assisting crew members unable to leave ships because of COVID restrictions and shipping delays.

The Houston, Texas trio Spoon has recorded their first album in three years, it's called Girls Can Tell. The music is rock and roll with a tinge of punk -- and it was released today. Nick Mirov writes about music for Pitchfork Media-dot-Com, he has a review. (4:00) The album Girls Can Tell by Spoon is available on Merge Records, catalog # MRG195, see www.mrg2000.com. Also see www.pitchforkmedia.com.

The head of the office of Federal Student Aid, Richard Cordray, spoke with lawmakers about loan forgiveness and a resumption of student loan repayments after the pandemic pause.