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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.

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.

Once a thriving river port, the southern Iraqi city of Basra fell on hard times during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and years of U.N. sanctions. Three years after the U.S. invasion, the city is still mired in poverty, and daily life in this once cosmopolitian city is being transformed by the growing power of conservative Islamist parties.

Linda talks to Dula James - the country representative for Catholic Relief Services. She is in Monrovia describing the experience from her apartment-- which she hasn't been able to leave for five days. She can hear the rebels outside her apartment. As Linda speaks to her the sound of gunfire can be heard and she eventually has to end the conversation because she is crouching in her apartment in fear.

Linda interviews New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, who moderated a panel discussion on race today .... at a meeting Senator Bradley called the "Unconvention," sponsored by the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago. In their conversation, Senator Bradley called for a new kind of engagement on questions of race; he said that confronting race as an issue in America must involve millions of individual acts. He was critical of politicians for not offering real leadership and real change.

We hear some of the conversation about Tuesday's election from around the country. First, we hear talk among the patrons of a diner in Portland, Maine. Then, from San Francisco, California, NPR's Richard Gonzales has a report on what people are saying at a local coffee house. And, from Rochester, New York, we'll hear some of what's being said at a beauty shop there.

When a 22-year-old University of Michigan student sat down for coffee with a friend and started discussing Iraq's troubles, they decided what the country needed was a good English-language newspaper featuring Western-style journalism. Dave Enders and his friend took that conversation beyond their restaurant meeting and went to Baghdad. And they're now publishing the Baghdad Bulletin. Michele Norris talks with Enders about the project.

Fresh Air remembers the life of Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter discovered by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe in the '90s. Chesnutt recently collaborated with Guy Picciotto of the band Fugazi on his latest album, At the Cut. Chesnutt died Dec. 25; we hear excerpts from his Dec. 1 conversation with Terry Gross, and reflect on his life with Stipe, Picciotto and filmmaker Jem Cohen.

Sugar on the Roof is playing the Festival Rialto in Grand Rapids on June 4th at Rapids Brewery, and will be playing alongside Wild Horses, Mike Munson, Superior Siren, and LaPlant Road. Sugar is made up of Megan, Jefferson, and Clancy, who stopped by to talk with Brett Carter on KAXE/KBXE's Minnesota music show, Center Stage Minnesota. Click the player above if you'd like to hear the whole conversation.