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More than 20 states and many major cities have mandated vaccines for public employees, but police unions are pushing back, warning of staffing shortages amid a nationwide uptick in violent crime.

Americans are exiting their employers' doors and Zoom meetings in droves. In fact, 2.9% of the entire workforce quit their jobs in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"We have 400 girls that have to go abroad" if they want to play pro volleyball, the CEO of a fledgling women's league says. She's trying to fix that problem, starting with youth clubs.

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Robert Siegel interviews Scott Silliman, the executive director of the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke University, about whether the trial of Zaccarias Moussaoui could be moved to a military tribunal. Moussaoui is facing charges in federal court in Alexandria, Va. He's accused of conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers. But the case has been slow in getting to trial.

In one of his frequent NPR essays, Walter Cronkite remembers the day President Kennedy was assassinated, 39 years ago today. National Archive recordings of ground-to-air communications with Kennedy's cabinet and Air Force One shed new light on the crisis. Listen to the recordings, and samples of broadcasts Cronkite made on Nov. 22, 1963.

Office workers spend more than an hour every day gossiping, flirting, shopping online and surfing the 'Net.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets in Washington, D.C., to discuss Vatican-inspired revisions to the bishops' proposed new policy for dealing with sexually abusive priests. The Vatican seeks revisions to items it says conflict with church law. Hear NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty.

Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce hit it big in the United States directing such action thrillers as Clear and Present Danger. Now he's returned to Australia to make two quieter and more serious films. Both Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American deal with race and colonialism. Howie Movshovitz reports.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's "confident" in international inspectors who have begun looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In an interview with NPR's Michele Kelemen, Powell says the Bush administration hopes for a peaceful resolution to the Iraq issue but warns that if war does come, the United States and other nations will be ready to "accomplish the mission of disarmament." NPR Online has the complete interview.

The amateur scuba diver stumbled upon a bunch of ancient artifacts near his local beach, including a large, 900-year-old iron sword encrusted with marine organisms.

Lynn Neary talks with reporter Melanie Peeples, who is in Carbon Hill, Ala., about the destruction there from last night's tornadoes. As many as three twisters hit the area, killing seven people, felling trees and power lines, and damaging homes.