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2: Playwright, poet, and performer LANE NISHIKAWA. His one-man show "I'm on a Mission from Buddha," is about some of culturally-based absurdities he's endured as a Japanese-American. NISHIKAWA said he put together the show of vignettes in order to answer, "all the nerdy, cliche-ridden, Asian-American images." His characters include a Japanese-American World War Two hero, and a Sushi-phobic redneck. "I'm on a Mission from Buddha," can also be seen on PBS. NISHIKAWA is the former Artistic Director of the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco and has taught creative writing in the Asian American Studies Dept at San Francisco State University. He's also appeared in the films, "Eat a Bowl of Tea," and "Living on Tokyo Time."

A D.C. official is suing two extremist groups for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The U.S. marks another sobering pandemic milestone. President Biden heads to Kentucky to survey tornado damage.

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

Journalist Jim Newton's new book, Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, looks at the life of the Supreme Court Justice who presided over such landmark decisions as Brown v. Board of Education. Newton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, sharing in the awards given to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the 1994 earthquake.

Yesterday, a helicopter crashed some 250 miles south of Hanoi in Vietnam, killing 7 Americans and 9 Vietnamese on board. All the Americans are said to have been involved in the U.S. military's program to recover Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War. NPR's Emily Harris reports on the scope of the Joint Task Force operation, titled Full Accounting.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including American Airlines pilot Captain Griever, President Bill Clinton, travel agent Jenny Wallace, Captain James Sovich of the Allied Pilots Association, Donald Carty, President of American Airlines and American Airlines passenger Carol Lennon.

Georgia's liberal grass-roots groups say they are more energized than discouraged after Democrat Jon Ossoff's disappointing, close loss to Republican Karen Handel in a closely watched special election

Rashod Ollison's memoir Soul Serenade is a coming-of-age story and playlist combined. He says he "could always tell" his mother's mood "by which Aretha Franklin song was on."

A new rule change means new artists are hitting the top 10.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Goldberg of the conservative news site The Dispatch, about revelations from the House panels' investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.