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-- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on how Mormons are responding to newly imposed restrictions on religious activities in Russia, which President Yeltsin signed into law on Friday. The law will limit missionary work and proselytizing by any church that can't prove it's been operating in Russia for at least 15 years and will limit the actions of foreign religious personnel. The Mormons plan to move ahead with their missionary activity. The main proponent of the new law is the Russian Orthodox Church, whose activities will not be affected.

An estimated 67 undocumented immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Central America, who worked at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 are still considered missing two decades after the terrorist attacks.

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.

A group of former models are in France giving testimony against a former prominent figure in the fashion industry, who they say raped and abused them.

John Prine's self-titled album came out 50 years ago. Bonnie Raitt, Jim Rooney, Fiona Prine and Jody Whelan guest in an online listening party with host Ann Powers.

The reggaetón superstar kicks off our "El Tiny" takeover of the Tiny Desk (home) concert series.

McEntire and members of her team were checking out a historical building in Atoka, Okla. They got trapped inside after its staircase collapsed and had to be rescued.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Albuquerque on the release of former Los Alamos Nuclear Scientist Wen Ho Lee after nine months of solitary confinement. Lee was released yesterday with an apology from a judge who said the government's actions "embarrassed our entire nation."

Host Bob Edwards talks to Steve Salzburg, professor of law at George Washington University about the case of Wen Ho Lee. He says it's not unusual for the government to charge a suspect with additional felony counts in certain sensitive cases.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book tells the extraordinary story of his parents, two musicians who met while playing in the all-Jewish Kulturbund Orchestra in Nazi Germany. (7:33) Martin Goldsmith's book Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany, published by Wiley.