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Host Bob Edwards talks with Clair Orr, chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education, about a resolution encouraging public schools to display the national motto, In God We Trust. The State Board is expected to pass this non-binding resolution tomorrow.

Anne Sutton reports from western Alaska on the political debate that could determine whether a family is able to survive. Many families in rural Alaska live off of fish from the rivers, berries from the trees and game from the mountains. Some residents say subsisting off the land is a tradition that keeps them alive.

Noah talks to Bill Kilpatrick, Zoologist at the University of Vermont, about the rising number of opossum sightings in Vermont. Possums are not equipped for cold weather. But each year more of these animals are showing up in Champlain. Kilpatrick believes global warming may have something to do with the animals' movement.

Leda Hartman reports on the 32nd annual Hollerin'Contest that was held recently in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina. The contest started as a fund-raiser for the volunteer fire department but has taken on life of its own. Before beepers and cell phones, hollerin' was an important way for rural folks to stay in touch.

A note on the sale of the Website featuring a computer-generated newscaster named "Ananova." The British mobile phone company Orange bought the site from the UK's Press Association. The price for Ananova -- well over 100-million-dollars.

The newest justice — picked by former President Donald Trump to fill the seat left open by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death — said, "I think we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms."

A for-profit detention center in Kansas that's been plagued with violence may be trying to do an end run against a presidential executive order by moving to house immigrant detainees.

Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.

Ray DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.

NPR's Mary Louise talks with a Special Immigration Visa applicant hoping to board a plane out of Afghanistan from the Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport.