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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that some members of Congress are pressing President Clinton **not** to certify that Colombia is making progress in improving its human rights record. The determination is a precondition to the release of a billion-dollar US aid package for the South American nation. Colombia's military has come under criticism for its ties to notorious right-wing paramilitary groups, which are responsible for most of the country's rights abuses.

United Nations arms inspector Scott Ritter is returning to Baghdad this Saturday at the invitation of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi leader has agreed to provide Ritter and a documentary film crew access to weapons facilities throughout the country. Ritter will attempt to judge whether Iraq has rebuilt its arsenal since U.N. inspectors left the country 19 months ago. Linda talks to Colum Lynch, United Nations Reporter for The Washington Post, about Ritter's trip.

In this election year, a new NPR-Kaiser-Kennedy School Poll finds that Americans distrust government at all levels. They distrust the federal government the most, but they also want it to do more. NPR's Pam Fessler explores what's behind this distrust, and she visits a conference of state legislators, who plan to combat distrust with an education campaign in the schools to explain what they really do.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports from Lima on today's swearing-in of Peru's controversial President Alberto Fujimori. There were some clashes between police and thousands of opposition supporters demonstrating against Fujimori, who won re-election to an unprecedented third term in May. International observers derided the election as unfair.

NPR's Steve Inskeep is on the road with the Bush-Cheney campaign. Today the presumptive Republican ticket stumped in Arkansas, the home state of President Clinton, on the way to next week's Republican Convention in Philadelphia. George W. Bush and Richard Cheney are making a point to stop in states that have voted Democratic in the last two elections.

The NFL is back. So are the fans. COVID-19 has never left. How will the league deal with full crowds during a pandemic? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lindsay Jones, who covers the NFL for The Athletic.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows unusually wide support for resettling Afghans allies. Even many Republicans who favor tighter controls on immigration say the U.S. should help those who fled the Taliban.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with podcast host Chika Uwazie about leaving Nigeria due to a political atmosphere which set off a social media crackdown, threats and economic consequences.

But the justice was philosophical about the outcome: "I wrote a dissent — and that's the way it works," he said. The decision was part of what court watchers call the "shadow docket."

The FDA has ruled on which e-cigarette products can remain on the market and which must be taken off, but deferred action on products made by Juul, which accounts for 40% of the e-cigarette market.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients about the Biden administration's new measures to curb COVID-19, like mandating vaccination in many workplaces.

Floating is a state of mind. Let KQED's playlist of house, jazz and indie-pop songs serve as a meditation break.

Pakistan has long been seen as backing the Taliban in defiance of the rest of the world. But now that they have seized control of Afghanistan, that relationship could change.

In the California Delta, there's a tiny town that was built by Chinese immigrants a century ago. It stands today as a memorial to the hardships they endured.

Democratic lawmakers are pressing the e-commerce giant about what it's doing to stop its systems from recommending books and other products with falsehoods about the pandemic and vaccines.

In the 20 years since the terror attacks of 9/11, movies have both been shaped by — and have shaped — the public's perception of that day's events.

"We're all taught that the success of a relationship has to somehow correlate with the length of it ... I just don't think that that's fully accurate." The singer-songwriter's new album is out today.

Black communities face a growing share of overdoses, but addiction treatment resources and attention are still focused on white communities.

"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.

The tightened security that followed 9/11 irreparably changed the U.S.-Mexico border region. Border agents see themselves as fighting terrorism, but it's unlikely a terrorist has ever crossed there.