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Daniel talks about Pope John Paul the Second's trip to Central America with the BBC's David Willey. Willey traveled with the Pope when the Pontiff last visited Latin American in 1983, and he says the Roman Catholic Church in the region has become much more conservative over the years, eschewing reform and supporting incumbant governments.

Conservative author David Horowitz sought to place ads in college newspapers across the country denouncing calls for reparations to African-Americans for slavery. Most papers declined to run the ads. Many of those that did sparked protests on their campuses. Av Harris reports from Providence -- Brown University was one of the schools whose paper ran the ad.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that the historic Chemical Weapons Treaty has been pulled from consideration by the United States Senate. The treaty needs ratification from only two more countries to take effect. This historic treaty...initiated by President Reagan and supported by President's Bush and Clinton...is opposed by conservative Republicans.

President Bush visits an estuary in Wells, Maine, to mark Earth Day, an event observed since 1970 to highlight environmental-conservation efforts. The president said his administration is tough on polluters but friendly to industry as well. Democratic challenger John Kerry took a far dimmer view of Bush's environmental record. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

German Catholics are facing a stark choice: Pay a church tax or forget about receiving the sacraments, including baptisms, weddings and funerals. Germany taxes registered Catholics, Protestants and Jews. In 2011, the tax raised $6.5 billion for the Catholic Church alone. Many progressives and conservatives are up in arms over the German bishops' decree.

Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan is bankrolling the development of Ave Maria, a new town in southwest Florida being built around a Catholic law school of the same name. Monaghan wants the town to espouse conservative Catholic values — which means no access to contraceptives or abortion procedures. Amy Tardif of member station WGCU reports.

NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in a case testing the confidentiality of a clinical social worker's notes. The case involves counseling given a police officer after she fatally shot a suspect. Congress has left it to courts to use reason and experience in determining whether conversations between psychotherapists and their patients are protected from disclosure in federal court.

The U.S. says a tape recording of the cockpit conversation in an American surveillance plane over Peru proves the crew tried to stop the shoot down of a missionary plane by the Peruvian Air Force. An American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter were killed when a Peruvian fighter mistook their plane for a drug smuggling aircraft. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Pentagon Correspondent Tom Gjelten.

NPR'S Don Gonyea reports on President Bush's first week in office. During a busy week, the President dealt with abortion, worked on plans to create an Office of Faith Based Initiatives, and met with members of congress and even a few governors in an effort to promote bipartisanship. The President then closed out the week by holding conversations with several international leaders, announcing his first international state visit will be to Mexico this February.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair labels as "deeply irresponsible" allegations that U.K. intelligence agents spied on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Former Blair cabinet minister Clare Short told the BBC she read transcripts of secretly recorded conversations Annan had at the United Nations prior to the war in Iraq. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and the BBC's David Bamford.

Click the player above to join host Leah Lemm exploring the northland in Northern Voices. In each episode, Leah sets out to learn about northern Minnesota and tell its stories through conversations with interesting people doing interesting things. With curiosity and generosity, Leah brings the listener along on her journey of discovery that is both surprising and warmly familiar. Listen for another story from Northern Voices.

Bernadine Joselyn, former diplomat with the US Department of State, recently traveled to the Ukraine/Poland border to assist refugees displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Heidi Holtan and Scott Hall spoke with Joselyn on the KAXE/KBXE Morning Show to share more about her connections to the region, her perspective on the conflict, and some of the stories of the people she met at the border. Click the player above to listen to the entire conversation.

update on the news around the Line 3 replacement project from Enbridge Energy

update on the news around the Line 3 replacement project from Enbridge Energy

update on the news around the Line 3 replacement project from Enbridge Energy

NPR's Alex Chadwick visits northern Montana where the biodiversity is much like it was throughout North America before European settlers moved West. While there used to be millions of Bison roaming the plains and forests in Montana, their numbers dwindled to less than two dozen at one point. But conservation efforts have succeeded in restoring populations of this and other threatened species.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on what appears to be a split vote on six Congressional House seats up for grabs this election. The state was seen as a bellwether for the conservative shift in 1994, when six seats flipped from Democratic to Republican. The margin was narrow in 1994, however, and this year's readjustment may indicate that 1994 wasn't such a strong rightward swing.

President Bush courted NASCAR fans and potential voters Sunday at the Daytona 500 in Florida. So-called "NASCAR dads" are considered key swing voters in this year's presidential election. Analysts say the group tends to vote conservative on social issues, although Democrats may be able to win votes on economic concerns. Hear NPR's Ari Shapiro.

Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS in San Diego reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has invited a representative of the Mexican government to open an office inside the San Diego border station. The idea has drawn strong opposition from inspectors who work at the station and from conservative critics who see the move as a violation of national sovereignty.

Metropolitan Opera violinist Patmore Lewis hopes classical music and world beats will lend a hand to spread the word about river conservation. The renowned composer has released a new CD, Rillito River Project, to draw attention to the environment through pop and innovation. Lewis talks about his solo project and how he's hoping to make an impact.